I wanted to share a wonderful video tutorial from Sandi Keene. Sandi is one of the members of Art to the 5th, which started the Documented Life Project. The project is wildly popular, and currently has almost 6,500 participants in a Facebook Group. In this video Sandi shares how to use the popular Gelli plate printing technique, without having that particular plate! For paper, even if you don’t have deli paper, you can still use this technique. You may want to try parchment paper, heavy vellum, printer paper… You know that’s the fun of art, it’s an Adventure!
Imagine all the things you could use these flowers on: scrapbook pages, cards, tags, journal pages, mixed media pieces… They lend themselves to all kinds of fun projects!
Enjoy the video and let us know what you make!
Next time, I’ll share a quick way to create these without even getting messy!
Learn the basics to getting started on your own Artful Adventure into Art Journaling!
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What to use for a journal
Instructions for making your own journal by recycling a book, if you’d like to go green!
Tips on Basic Supplies
Information on Adhesives
5 Ways to Make Backgrounds
Tips on Getting Started
Starter Prompts
Printable Images and quotes to help you get started!
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I highly recommend Kristie’s ebook, Artful Adventures – Art Journaling Basics, for anyone who has dabbled or who has thought about dabbling in art journaling. Kristie debunks the myth that you need to be an artist to have an art journal. With her open, shoot from the hip style, you learn what an art journal can be, what to look for when buying one and how to create gorgeous background patterns. Getting messy can be the hardest thing for Type A people like me but after watching Kristie slap gesso on the page with her hands, I want to try it! Thanks to Kristie’s tips and tricks I feel more confident in my own fledgling art journaling attempts!
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It’s time to jump on-board for a jaunt into Gelatos®! If you aren’t familiar with Gelatos®, I think you’ll love their versatility. They are a Faber Castell® product which was developed as a result of their children’s Gel Sticks® product. They are pigment sticks in tubes about the size of lipstick. Since I love lipstick, you know I love using these! It’s like using lipstick on art. However, clean-up is much easier than lipstick would be! Watch the video or read below!
Although they are similar to the children’s products, the formula was developed for paper crafters. Both are easy and feel just about the same to use. You probably would never know the difference, but two of the main differences between the two, are that Gelatos are lightfast, and they come in so many more colors. Here’s the scoop on Gelatos:
Odorless
Acid-free
Archival Safe
Lightfast! They will not fade over time.
Gellatos come 28 colors, plus black and white, plus 6 metallics, which include a yummy set called “Metallic Mellon.” That brings the total to 36 options! The Gel Sticks are available in a set of primary colors and a set of a few metallics.
Gelatos coordinate with other products in the Faber Castell line. Not only do they coordinate with their own line, but they did a great deal of study on color trends in the papercraft industry and selected colors accordingly!
Water-soluble
Blendable
Work on many surfaces!
You will most often find Gelato’s sold in sets of 4, in a color family, such as blues, greens, etc. Recently I found a set of assorted colors at one of the large craft stores near me! I grabbed a set and thought you might like to see what kinds of things you can do with them!
Gelatos are a very versatile product, and there are several ways to use them. This Artful Adventure series is going to look at some of the different ways they can be used. We will look at using them in scrapbooking, art journaling, and card-making. You know you have found a great mixed media product when you can use it in so many ways! Plus, if you want to take them with you, it’s so easy and non-messy to transport them. It’s like throwing your lipstick in your purse!
Today, we’ll start by looking at using them dry, right out of the tube. Just take off the cap and apply! Being able to use them dry is good news when it comes to projects that would be either ruined or warped by using water-based products. You can either leave as is for the most intense look or rub for a more blended look. The smooth, creamy consistency is enjoyable to work with.
You can use them together and they still blend well in their “dry” state. Use one tube over the top of another, and your tubes will not even become cross-contaminated with color! I love that quality! You can either blend them with your finger tip, or use a cotton swab, or blending stump. I like using my fingers, because they of their smooth, creamy consistency!
Have you tried Gelatos? What did you like best about them? Don’t forget, you are always invited to share your projects in our Artful Adventures Facebook group!
This information is based purely on products I have purchased and used, and am freely sharing my thoughts and ideas about.
Until our next Artful Adventure together, have some of your own!
Sometimes you find something that you just have to share.
Many of my friends have been passing around links to this video. It is absolutely so funny! If you are a crafter, scrapbooker, card-maker, mixed media artist…. whatever your artsy-craftsy self enjoys, you may easily identify with this!
Companies that make suites of products for scrapbooking, card making, papercrafting, etc.; have pre-selected color themes for you, so you don’t even have to think about what to use. However, what if you are purchasing items individually, or have left over product? What do you have that those things will coordinate with? It’s all about selecting a color theme! That’s why a company’s product line looks great, and that’s how you can select colors that will work for you as well!
In the last post we discussed how to use the color wheel and use atriad color scheme for a project or scrapbook page. Today, let’s talk about a different way to select colors – the monochromatic color scheme. You may think that a monochromatic color scheme is 50 shades of the same color. That’s true! However, when you move up and down the spectrum, you find that there is more to a monochromatic scheme than appearing to be all the same color.
The open circle is the coral color
For this scrapbook page, I wanted to use a background color that was based on Calypso Coral, but I wanted it to have a little bit different look and feel than the other colors I normally use with it. I picked that color on the color wheel, and look at the other variations that are up and down that line of color.
Here are the colors that pop up!
Monochromatic scheme using coral as the base color.
For some reason, every time I have tried to upload this color strip, it seems to alter the way the original colors appear! One color appears to be more gray than it looks here.
Using a color scheme as a jumping off point for your project, you can then use what you have and take liberty with adjustments as needed. Here is a layout using this method. You’ll see that the paged is not strictly made using only these colors, but you can also see that the majority of the page is based very close to this.
For an easy way to help you create a monocromatic color scheme, here is great website to use: kuler.adobe.com(See below this next photo for a video on how to use it!) Once you try this method and link up your project here or over at our Facebook Artful Adventures Group!
Learn the basics to getting started on your own Artful Adventure into Art Journaling!
Companies that make suites of products for scrapbooking, card making, papercrafting, etc.; have pre-selected color themes for you, so you don’t even have to think about what to use. However, what if you are purchasing items individually, or have left over product? What do you have that those things will coordinate with? It’s all about selecting a color theme! That’s why a company’s product line looks great, and that’s how you can select colors that will work for you as well!
