Mixed Media Fun - Playing with Gelatos

Spring finally did arrive, we had some beautiful weather here today. Sadly my daughter came down with the flu on the weekend. Thought she'd be ready to go back to school tomorrow, but now appears to have an ear infection, so she will have to go see her doctor tomorrow instead :-(

I wanted to do a mixed media project, and remembered the canvas notebook I got from Blick Art Materials a while ago, so I got out my gelatos, stencils and stamps and created this while my daughter was sleeping yesterday. 

The canvas was first completely covered with several designer paper scraps. Then I painted gesso over it so soften the look of the papers. Ended up with lots of gelato colors on top, and now the designer papers are practically invisible (unless you look really close). Stamped some words on the background and used a couple stencils with modeling paste to create a texture. The main floral stamp is from Penny Black - Demure. Some of the stems smeared when I added more gelatos, so I used a Faber Castell  Pitt marker to add them again. Finished it off by adding the sentiment, which I cut apart, highlighted them with a dark blue gelato, and then stamped ferns around the canvas.

I know this might look very messy, but I had lots of fun doing it :-) Wish I could spend more time doing mixed media projects, they are so relaxing to work on :-)

Linking it up here:

Artistic Inspirations -Anything Goes with a Twist of Flowers
The Mixed Media World Challenge-Anything Goes
Crafting from the Heart -  Always Anything Goes
 Make My Monday -  Flowers

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Colorful Creations for Monday Morning Challenge No. 5

Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday Morning Challenge :-)

Thanks so much everyone for playing along last month, it was nice seeing so many spring themed cards! And hope you get to enjoy some spring weather where ever you are! It's been really cold here last week, but I *think* it's finally going to warm up here too :-)

It's time to announce last month's winner.

Random.org chose no. 18

Stamping Smiles Designs.

Congratualions, please email me your complete address at ellibelle_blog at yahoo dot com  so I can get the prize mailed to you.

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For this month, the challenge theme I chose is

Colorful Creations

You don't have to use all colors of the rainbow, just as long as there are at least two different colors used on your project, it's good to go :-)

Feel free to use any stamp maker, and you may combine this with any other challenges. 

Just remember these simple rules:

It must be a new creation
You must mention my challenge and link back here in your post

You may enter up to 4 times

(As always, due to postage cost, I will have to choose the winner from USA entries - so sorry!)

For today I decided to show you two creations. I just recently received my "Bring on the Happy" Penny Black order  (stamps are available in my Etsy *Stamp* show now)  and I couldn't decide which one to use. 

The floral stamp I used on the first card is definitely my favorite floral stamp from this release.

I used watercolor paints on watercolor paper for the background. Then I added a stenciled design, using the new Penny Black stencil "Hypnotic". After stamping the flowers, and adding the fussy cut blooms, I randomly stamped the sentiment over the background using distress ink.

Products list:

Demure, Sprinkles and Smiles

(both stamps/set by penny black avail. in my shop) 

Hypnotic stencil  

watercolor paint, copic markers, versafine ink, memento ink, distress ink

button, twine, ribbon, glitter, white pitt marker

Next up is another birthday card using the fun stamp "Sweet Delivery". This was another have to have stamp for me, because I think the image works so well for masculine cards, but can also  be used for cupcake lovers and cat lovers, so it's perfect :-)

I stamped this image onto neenah card stock and colored using Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. The "tire" marks were made with a brand new Penny Black stencil (there are actually 3 different designs on this stencil). I gave the card some extra color by inking it with yellow distress ink. Sentiments are from the set "Bring on the Happy" and "Snippets", both also from the same release and available in my stamp shop. 

Product List:

Sweet Delivery, Sprinkles and Smiles, Snippets

Oscillations Stencil

(all avail. in my shop)

DCWV card stock, neenah card stock

faber castell polychromos 

versafine onyx ink, washi tape, glitter

The prize for this challenge is this cute little set,

 sponsored by my shop.

To play along in my challenge, simply link directly to your blog post. If inlinkz is not available, just leave a comment below.
You have until April 25th 8pm central time to play along.

ETA 5/20/18:
To protect the privacy of those who entered this challenge, the linky tool has now been removed.

Bokeh Background and Dandelion Blooms

Happy Friday and happy (almost) weekend! Hope you have some fun things planned and that there is some sunshine in your forecast!

Today is my turn to share a creation on the Just For Fun Rubber Stamps blog, and I decided to give the "Bokeh" technique another try - it's so much fun!! I found my white craft re-inker, so this time I didn't use gesso, but craft ink instead.

If you haven't tried this technique yet, you really should. Super easy to do!! I don't have a specific tutorial to link to, but there are several on pinterest and youtube.

These are the steps I used:

1.  Mask off edge of watercolor paper using washi tape.

2. Wet paper with a clean watercolor brush.

3. Add your watercolors to the paper (be sure the whole paper is covered with paint

with no white space in between).

4. Let dry or use heating tool for quicker drying

5. Create a homemade stencil using different sized circle punches.

6. Simply use this stencil to add white craft ink to the background

7. Try different intensity for different sized circles (I tried to have my smallest circles be the most intense).

8. Your background is now complete and you can create the card with it :-)

(Be careful when removing the washi tape if you like to use the border in your card design)

You don't have to use watercolor paints, you can use dye ink-reinkers too. Gelatos would probably work too. 

Product List:

Dandelion Blooms, Unmounted sentiments sheet 1

both from JFF

watercolor paper by Canson

watercolor paints

white craft ink, versafine onyx ink

MS butterfly punch, sticky rhinestones

washi tape for masking, heating tool

circle punches for making stencil, sponge

I would love to play along here:

Stampotique Designers' Challenge SDC188 - Your Favorite Background Technique - Bokeh is my current favorite
Loves Rubber Stamps -Create your own background
Cheerful Stamp Pad -In the Garden
Crafting from the Heart -  Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes

Thanks so much for visiting!!

You are Fabulous

Happy Wednesday! Hope you're having a great day so far! Cloudy day here, hopefully the sun will peek out later... 

Last night I colored this cute image from Whimsy Stamps, today, I just added some shading with a pencils, and created a card with it.

The image is a new rubber stamp from Whimsy's Mi Ran collection, just released earlier this month. She's been stamped onto xpress blending card, colored with copics and pencils, and then fussy cut. 

I thought these ticket sentiments were prefect for the image. They are from an older sentiment set - Fun Life, and I used the ticket die to cut them out.

Papers are all from my stash. I embellished with some glitter, a button and twine, and some die cut stars.

Products used: 

Number One, Fun Life 

(both by Whimsy Stamps)

ticket die, pierced stacking star die

(both by Whimsy Stamps)

Papers by Bo Bunny, DCWV, SU, neenah

washi tape, glitter, button, twine

I am  playing along here:

Inky Impressions -  Bold and Bright
Little Red Wagon - You're A Star
Ruby's Rainbow -  Buttons & Bows (Week 2 of 2)
Simon Says Stamp -  Anything Goes
Wonderful Wednesdays -   Always Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly -  A Cut Above - die cutting, fussy cutting, punches

 

Thanks so much for visiting!! 

PS: This card is going to be up for sale in my Etsy *Card* shop :-)