Happy Saturday!
Today, I am playing with my Gelatos which I haven't used in so long.
If you are unfamiliar with them, they are smooth pigment sticks that look like crayons but are highly concentrated for wonderful colours.
I began with this newly released stamp from Penny Black called Red Star.
It is such a beautiful poinsettia and great to use if you like to colour directly onto your stamps with markers which I love to do.
So I placed the stamp into my Misti, painted a bit of water onto my stamp surface, then coloured them with Gelatos. I sprayed with water then stamped onto my paper. I repeated this process using shades of reds and a hint of pink and some gray until I was happy with the look. Before it was totally dry, I clear heat embossed the flowers. It gave them a cool, grainy look which I really liked.
Next, I stamped the sentiment from the PB set called Joyful Wishes and clear embossed it as well.
I watercoloured in the background using Distress inks. It is easy to do by just pressing the ink pad onto any non-stick surface and picking up the ink with a wet paintbrush. I find this technique works the best though, if you wet your paper first with a bit of water using the paintbrush.
The finishing touch was to splatter some white acrylic paint over the top to look like snow.
Have a great weekend and thanks so much for coming by and taking a look!
Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- CHRISTMAS
Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING GOES STAMPED
Crazy 4 Challenges- ANYTHING GOES
Winter Wonderland- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
a2z Scrapbooking October- WATERCOLOURING
Supplies
Stamps- Red Star (PB)/ Joyful Wishes (PB)
Ink- Tuxedo Black Memento/ Shaded Lilac, Worn Lipstick Distress (TH)
Paper- heavy white (local store)
Accessories and Tools- Gelatos (Faber-Castell)/ Misti/ paintbrush/ clear eb powder/ heat tool/
white acrylic paint
