Gelatos – Candles in the Garden

Hey everyone!

Today I’m sharing a card that I’m entering into two totally awesome challenges:

Cure For The Monday Blues Challenge #12 and Virginia’s View Challenge #2.

I’ve combined these challenges for the simple reason that they are great starting points for colours and techniques. Here’s my card:

I created the background by tinting some translucent embossing paste with a Metallic Mint Gelato and pushed it through the Texture Cressida stencil from Memory Box onto a white panel. This gave me some wonderful texture and shine!

Once dry, I foam mounted the panel to a white card base and die-cut some stars from neon cardstock using the Hearts and Stars die from Memory Box. I sprinkled these onto the panel along with a large Clearly Besotted Geometric Rose vellum die-cut.

I stuck strips of some striped red and white washitape onto a scrap panel and first die-cut a square, then die-cut a heart in the centre. The gold showing through the heart is some Delicata Golden Glitz smushed onto another scrap panel and is so shiny! The sentiment comes from Clearly Besotted’s A Little Sentimental set and was stamped onto a piece of cardstock that had a light wash of Worn Lipstick Distress Ink.

I clipped the sentiment and the die-cut square panel with a wooden peg which I coloured using a sharpie to match the background, and foam mounted to the card base.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekends!

Hey everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Lawnscaping Challenge #70 – to get Polka Dot crazy! I tried my hand at stencilling again, but this time using some Gelatos – I love how this turned out, even though I’m still waiting for the design to ‘dry’ 🙂

What I mean is that those Gelatos are so creamy and take to stencilling so well, but where they get caught up in the stencil and transfer to your work surface, they seem to just sit on top – admittedly, this is my first time using them…

I took some punchinella and laid it on top of a white piece of cardstock diagonally and then rubbed three different coloured Gelatos over the top. Now, it didn’t do what I thought it would, so I grabbed a small makeup sponge and blended the Gelatos through the stencil – this gave me the result you can see in the photos – they blended beautifully in some places but stayed raised in others…

Before mounting the panel to a card base, I stamped this wonderful sentiment from Lawn Fawn’s Dad’s Day set in Versafine Onyx Black ink. I die-cut the Memory Box Chloe Stem from some black cardstock and foam mounted onto the front and finished by adding a natural twine bow.