Gelato-holics Anonymous

Hi. I'm Shawna.  And I'm a gelato-holic.  (Hi Shawna.)

Seriously.  Can't get enough.  Loving the different ways gelatos can be used!  I tried out the drip technique and worked up some colors to mimic a sunset in another layout.  I think it's safe to say that these little beauties have surpassed my mists as my go-to technique on layouts these days.  Here are a couple of layouts I completed recently during my gelato trials.

Technique Tuesday at Birds of a Feather!

Happy Tuesday!  I hope everyone had a fabulous long Labor Day weekend!  Today is my first tutorial as a design team member for the Birds of a Feather kit club! Since my current obsession is gelatos, I thought I'd share a little bit of technique on how to use them to create custom cardstock and backgrounds.  Click here to read more!

Stop over and check it out and while you are there, take a look at the awesome kits BOAF offers - they're perfect for the scrapbooker that doesn't have hours to spend shopping and coordinating product!

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Finally.

Happy Monday! Hope you all have a short work week ahead and are planning something fun for Labor Day weekend! I'll be camping, which never fails to produce tons of great scrappy pictures!

This week's CSI Case File is full of soft, dreamy color and as usual, I had so much fun creating around this scheme.  Here is the case:

And here is how I solved it:

I pulled out my gelatos again on this one. The more I use these things the more I love them. I spent a good amount of time experimenting with different techniques on scrap paper and I'm looking forward to using them in lots of different ways on future layouts.  I am finding that they blend much easier with a layer of gesso underneath them, so the first thing I did was cover my cardstock with a diluted layer of gesso.  Then, after blending the gelatos until I got the shading I wanted, I used a mask to apply some molding paste for a spattering of stars.  (Added some stamped stars too.)

I created a border with some lipstick pink washi tape, and made a little cluster with an overlaid scallop from a Heidi Swapp mistable scallop border, layered in several colors of gelato.

...I wasn't kidding about my gelato obsession.  I used them again to add some color to my fabric Thicker letters in the title.  Gelatos.Are.Awesome!

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my work.  I so appreciate the visits and feedback.  Have a great day!

Materials:
Paper:
Cardstock - butter yellow
Gray chevron paper - no idea the brand
Embellies:
Washi Tape - lipstock pink patterned and silver star patterned
Citrus Twist kit sequins
Citrus Twist kit "love" flair button
Prima clock face
Studio Calico vellum die cuts
American Craft white journaling tag
Faber Castell Gelatos
Gray embroidery floss
Citrus Twist exclusive stamps - 2013 and stars
Heidi Swapp star mask
Gesso
Molding Paste

Fun Times (and my first foray with gelatos)

I've been dying to try out gelatos forever and couldn't find them anywhere local.  Finally found a starter kit of Faber Castells and snatched it up!  Watched some youtube videos, looked over some blog posts, and went to town.  They're "so easy" to use....um no.  They're not.  LOL  I ruined about a half a dozen pieces of white cardstock before I got something even slightly usable!  I think it was a paper texture issue and that I need to use a thicker cardstock or watercolor paper.  Anyway, I finally got a nice blend of colors and used the background as my starting point for this week's CSI case file.  I doubled up on this one and used the sketch challenge at Scrap Friends as well.  I am absolutely thrilled with the final product, though, and the effect the gelatos give.  Definitely going to be practicing and using them a lot on future layouts!

Here is this week's CSI case file and the ScrapFriends sketch:

The background is a mix of gelatos and masked stars, with fussy cut silver glittery stars that I cut from ribbon I received in a CSI trim package for winning the role of Star Witness on a prior case file.

I used the white gelato and added a bit of yellow and covered the corrugated cardboard with it, layered some paper and a frame, and added my journaling to a stamped and edged envelope and card behind the photo. The dark brown and white hexagon shapes were fussy cut from paper and meant to be used on a prior project (the other side is orange) as a ferris wheel.  I didn't end up using them but I'm glad I kept them because they helped tie in the dark from from the case file in this layout.

A jeweled brad and a fussy cut stamped arrow finished off the cluster on the bottom.

Oh, Newman...

Happy Monday!  Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend.  I did.  Fun with friends on Saturday, and lots of time in the garden on Sunday!

So my sister and her husband recently added an adorable Newfoundland puppy to their family and he is ridiculously cute.  Every time I see a photo of him I want to scrap it!  He is so stinking handsome...and huge! Unfortunately, my sister lives across the country from me right now (*sniffle*) so I have yet to meet the little (big) man, but from all accounts, he's a total love bug and an awesome pup.  And totally worthy of a scrapbook page in his honor. :)

I used the colors from the Scrap Friends challenge this month for this layout and changed the picture to black and white to give the page a lot of contrast.  I dug out embellies from my stash that I haven't used in YEARS and a great little box of square cut papers that I bought in, oh....2006???  I guess it's good to be a hoarder sometimes. ;-)  Because the majority of materials used on this layout are so old, I don't know the brands/origins, so no materials listed on this post.  Anyway, without further delay....meet Newman!