My first attempt at Gelatos

Good morning!  I thought I would share some Art Journal pages that I finished a while back but never blogged about!  This was my forst attempt at using Gelatos from Faber-Castell and while I have since learned a bit more I did love the way the pages turned out.

I began by brushing a layer of Claudine Helmuth Gesso over both pages and let that dry.  Next I picked  peach, pink, orange, and red from my Gelatos Gift set  and colored those randomly over the pages.  I used a large flat brush from Claudine Helmuth (Ranger) with water to gently blend the colors.

The background red flowers are from Dyan Reaveley's How Does Your Garden Grow set (Ranger) that were colored with Red Gelato and then spritzed with water.  The birds are from the same set and were stamped with Archival black ink then colored in with Gelatos.

The leaves were also colored with Gelatos, the rest of the images were colored with Dylusions ink sprays in Tim Holtz Water Brushes.

I added a coat of Claudine Helmuth Studio Multi Medium over the images and also used it to adhere my cut out pieces to my pages.

I will be sharing more Gelatos projects soon!  I've had more time to play with them a bit plus I spent some time at the Faber-Castell booth at CHA.

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Cyndi

Mixed Media with Spectrum Noir

Happy early Valentine's Day!

Its my turn on the Spectrum Noir blog today and I have a mixed media tutorial up today!  Find out how I mixed my Spectrum Noir reinkers with wet acrylic paint to create the background on this card:

Stamps: Tim Holtz Valentine Blueprint (Ranger)

Ink: Spectrum Noir reinkers (PP3, PP5, CR11, DR5, blender solution)(Crafter's Companion

 Archival Black ink (Ranger)

Cardstock: Pink & Black (Core'dinations); White Watercolor paper

Accessories: Claudine Helmuth Studio Gesso (Ranger)

Claudine Helmuth Studio Blank Canvas Paint (Ranger)

Spectrum Noir markers (Crafters Companion)

Glossy Accents (Ranger)

More Stampendous peeks

While I am in Mixed Media mode I thought I would share a small canvas that was in the January 2013 Stampendous catalog.  I had a lot of fun mixing paints and sprays and new Color Mica Fragments for my background!  All of the new Stampendous products should be up at THIS LINK in the next couple of days!  Just ask your LSS if they have them in stock yet!

Here's the process that I used: 

1.     Stamp Botanical Blooms onto white printer paper with Archival black ink.  Adhere to canvas using Claudine Helmuth Matte Multi medium.

2.     Spray canvas with Fresh Lime, Lemon Zest and London Blue Dylusions ink sprays.  Heat set.

3.     Add Dab of Yellow CH paint in some areas.  Let dry.  Add another layer of Multi medium.  Stamp more Botanical Blooms In archival black ink onto canvas.

4.     Stamp Color Outside onto scrap white cs.  Spray with London Blue ink.  Distress edges with archival black ink.  Adhere to canvas with Beacon Fast Finish.

5.     Add a mix of Yellow, Blue and Green Mica Fragments to canvas using Multi-medium.  Let Dry.

6.     Stamp Butterfly from  Jumbo Butterfly Trio with archival black ink on white cs.  Spray with Lemon Zest and Fresh Lime ink.  Apply a layer of Fast Finish and let dry.  Curl wing and adhere center of butterfly only to canvas with more Fast finish.  Add yellow and green micro glitters to wings with fast finish.

Supplies:

RN253 Color Outside (Stampendous)

RR162 Botanical Blooms (Stampendous)

CRS5044 Jumbo Butterfly Trio (Stampendous)

FRM10 Blue Mica Fragments (Stampendous)

FRM09 Green Mica Fragments (Stampendous)

FRM08 Yellow Mica Fragments (Stampendous)

London Blue, Fresh Lime, & Lemon Zest Dylusions Ink Sprays (Ranger)

Claudine Helmuth Multi Matte Medium (Ranger)

Archival Black ink pad (Ranger)

Claudine Helmuth Dab of Yellow Acrylic Paint (Ranger)

Beacon Fast Finish

Canvas

Stampendous New Release Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Stampendous October Catalog new release Blog Hop!  We hope you've enjoyed this week of peeks of all the fun new stamps!  Be sure to hop around to all the Design Team's blogs today and leave comments for a chance to win a brand new stamp!

For today I wanted to share an art journal page that I completed using a couple of the newest stamps.  I began by covering my page with gesso then let that dry.  Next I sprayed on some Dylusions ink sprays.  (The sprays over the gesso will give a lovely pastel color)

I then stamped the new Hydrangea Bunch 3 times in Archival Black ink.  I painted these in using Claudine Helmuth's acrylic paints watered down a bit ...not really neatly, just adding color.

                                        

Next I added a few of the Leaf Sprigs stamp, also in Archival black.  I added some paint and Gelatos around the edges of the flowers and the edge of the page in slightly darker colors.

I then took my Music Score background stamp and inked that with black then rolled it onto my page (holding it in my hand and not using a stamp block) to give partial images randomly over the page.

Next I added some more white gesso throughDylusions Diamond of a Border stencil to add some texture and then did a bit of doodling with my white sharpie pen.

                                           

The last steps were adding a folded tag and sentiments to the inside and out.  I used the Life is Art stamp, and inked part for the fron tof the tag and part for the inside.  This was adhered using Fast Finish Decoupage from Beacon.  Then I added a strip of Teal Dot Washi tape from Bella Blvd down the side of my journal page right up to the spine.

 OK, so now its time to hop on and see the rest of the fabulous inspiration for today!

 Annette Witherspoon 

Asia King 

Barb Turpin 

Cyndi Bundy  (you are here)

Janelle Stollfus  

Jennifer Ingle 

Jennifer Dove 

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel 

Mary Dawn Quirindongo 

Melinda Gleissner  

Pam Hornschu 

Rhea Weigard

Suzanne Czosek

Taylor Usry

Tenia Nelson

Tobi Crawford

Wenday Jordan

Wendy Price 

Yana Smakula