Hello and Happy Aloha TGIFriday!
It's been a long work week so I'm super happy that I get to take today off! Yay! Going to hang out with ohana today so I'm excited about that. (yay!) Before I leave I wanted to share this fun cool card for today's Lilo's Fun Friday #86 share...
I've been playing with some new supplies thanks to some awesome inspiration from a very talented crafter, Eva from Crafting This and That (Hi Eva!). She used gelatos on some of her projects and I've been wanting to know what they were all about. I was at Joann's a few weekends ago and they were having a 50% off sale on practically everything in the crafting section! It was really hard not to buy a lot of things, but when I saw that the gelatos were on sale I decided to purchase some colors. A few weeks later I decided to try them and went online to find a tutorial. I saw a few but I think I liked Donna Downey's the best. Not only was she fun to watch but her tutorials are under 4 mins! She really gets to the point which is what I liked best. (haha) You can find it here.
Now I didn't do any drippage, just a plain design using the oranges, yellow and reds. I did use gesso and could definitely see the difference as opposed to not using gesso. I wish I had taken more pictures of the process! Oh well next time. I heat embossed all the images in black. The giant flower came in one of the gelato sets, the smaller flower is from a Fiskars set and so is that sentiment. I did some doodles with my new white gel pen called Reminiscence from Marvy. It's a really nice white pen. Last but certainly not least is tiki (retired) from Yumi & Fumi Handmade. Thought he added a fun element to the card.
What I liked most about using the gelatos is how easy they were to use. Adding the gesso takes some time but in the end the result is pretty awesome. I can't wait to try this again. Thanks for the inspiration Eva! If you're not a fan, you must definitely hop on over and check out her blog. Talk about inspiration overload! Woo Hoo!!
Alrighty, time for me to get going. Hoping you all have a great weekend. Happy Aloha Friday and Mahalo for stopping by!
It's been a long work week so I'm super happy that I get to take today off! Yay! Going to hang out with ohana today so I'm excited about that. (yay!) Before I leave I wanted to share this fun cool card for today's Lilo's Fun Friday #86 share...
I've been playing with some new supplies thanks to some awesome inspiration from a very talented crafter, Eva from Crafting This and That (Hi Eva!). She used gelatos on some of her projects and I've been wanting to know what they were all about. I was at Joann's a few weekends ago and they were having a 50% off sale on practically everything in the crafting section! It was really hard not to buy a lot of things, but when I saw that the gelatos were on sale I decided to purchase some colors. A few weeks later I decided to try them and went online to find a tutorial. I saw a few but I think I liked Donna Downey's the best. Not only was she fun to watch but her tutorials are under 4 mins! She really gets to the point which is what I liked best. (haha) You can find it here.
Now I didn't do any drippage, just a plain design using the oranges, yellow and reds. I did use gesso and could definitely see the difference as opposed to not using gesso. I wish I had taken more pictures of the process! Oh well next time. I heat embossed all the images in black. The giant flower came in one of the gelato sets, the smaller flower is from a Fiskars set and so is that sentiment. I did some doodles with my new white gel pen called Reminiscence from Marvy. It's a really nice white pen. Last but certainly not least is tiki (retired) from Yumi & Fumi Handmade. Thought he added a fun element to the card.
What I liked most about using the gelatos is how easy they were to use. Adding the gesso takes some time but in the end the result is pretty awesome. I can't wait to try this again. Thanks for the inspiration Eva! If you're not a fan, you must definitely hop on over and check out her blog. Talk about inspiration overload! Woo Hoo!!
Alrighty, time for me to get going. Hoping you all have a great weekend. Happy Aloha Friday and Mahalo for stopping by!