Hi, it's Lesley here. I was recently fortunate enough to travel to the State of South
Australia and do 5 classes with Steph Devlin who is on the Prima DT. We
covered a number of different techniques with Step and whilst I don't
feel I have anywhere near mastered any of these techniques yet, I am
having a wonderful time playing around and trying to create a similar
style to Steph's without copying her designs.
One of the fun things we learnt was about Gelatos
the newly released fun tool to use for scrapbooking. I see Gelatos as
not only adding a fun element to creating your pages, but being able to
create your own background's on your pages, I use so much 'white'
cardstock now, therefore a saving on patterned paper. On this page I
have used Gelatos 4 ways, mainly for demonstration purposes and probably
wouldn't use all 4 methods on a page all the time.
Firstly I wanted to give a watercolour effect behind
the photo and dies. To achieve this, because you will be using a water
spritzer on your paper you apply a layer of Gesso to the area you want
to paint, then when that is dry its as easy as scribbling just like a
small child would using the colours of your choice. Then you spritz
lightly with water and using your finger blend the colours together,
I've used Orange and 2 shades of Yellow on my background, you only have
to use a small amount, and, if the background isn't as you choose you
can add any colour to change the shade and it all blends together
beautifully.
The 2nd method is using a mask, I've used a circle
mask and added the Gelato directly to the paper (no Gesso required), you
just blend it inside the relevant shape you may be using and then what I
also did was rub my finger off on another circle to achieve a lighter
shade.
The 3rd method is creating a mist using the Gelatos.
To do this you simply shave a very small amount off the bottom of the
colour of your choice into a paint pallet, again I used orange and
yellow, then add just a very small amount of water and using a paint
brush mix it until it quickly turns into a paste. Use the brush to
scrape it into a water spritzer bottle and then add more water, you only
add a small amount at a time so it remains reasonably thick, yet thin
enough to spray. I probably would only use the yellow shade on this
layout at the moment so I only mixed a small amount and then cleaned the
spritz bottle out ready for my next project. It then sprays on just
like any other commercially purchased mist. I held the paper up so I
run a few funs down the page which can be seen on the bottom right.
The 4th method is applying it directly to my
chipboard on the left of the page just like you would marker pens, again
a small amount goes a long way.
Well I hope
you enjoy playing with Gelatos if you get the opportunity, I purchased
the large box to start with and then you can buy them in smaller amounts
in different or the same colours to add or replace.
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