More Gelato fun

Hello friends and thanks for dropping in. Today I have another quote page in my Bulletjournal to share, again inspired by the work of Valerie Sjodin, in fact I am using one of her own quotes.

I set up the page in pencil first. And then I went over it all with my thinnest black Micron pen (0.05)

Next I coloured all the imagerie with Prisma Premier coloured pencils, building everything up with very thin layers. And finally did the background with Gelatos.

I found since doing my last page that the best and smoothest way to blend these without using any water, is with sponge daubers. I scribble some gelato on my glass cutting mat (I am sure an acrylic block or none stick craft mat would work just as well). Rub over it with the sponge dauber and then blend it onto the page. The colours just blend beautifully and everything stays really transparent which I love.

Here's a close up of the central quote still. I copied the quote from the Valerie Sjodin colouring book Colorful Blessings. All the rest is my own design.

Well that's it for today. Have a good week and happy crafting and creating!

xxxxx

Astrid

A new love affair with Gelatos in my bulletjournal

As many of you who visit regularly will know, - I have been using a bullet journal for my planning and creative explorations. Today I am sharing a few more pages rather different in style. These were inspired by the work of Valerie Sjodin. She is mostly a bible journaler but also keeps a Bullet Journal in a Leuchtturm 2017 (like mine), which she calls her everyday journal.

She uses Gelatos and colured pencils to decorate them, and when I saw some of her pages I fell in love!

I had been wanting to do some pages with quotes and handlettering and seeing her beautiful work was just the inspiration I needed.

Now I have a big box of Gelatos given to me by my dear hubby for my birthday many years ago when they first came out, but they have been sadly neglected for a long, long time, so it was great to dig them out and give them a try in my Bujo. The great thing is that here they are used totally dry just added with a stencilling brush. This is a great advantage as the Leuchtturm as most other Bullet Journals have thin paper only, and they don't stand up to wet media very well.

The central circle was done on deli paper with two colours of gelatos and then stencilled with a baby wipe. This is a well known technique, that just lifts the colour.I cut out with the circle with a die and then adhered it to the page with a glue stick. I drew the banner on a piece of paper, copied and adapted from a page on Valerie's blog, coloured with Prisma Premier pencils, fussy cut it and adhered it to the circle. I then blended the rest of the page with the gelatos and stencil brush.

This lettered quote I found on Pinterest, I copied (and adapted it slightly) straight on the page, with pencil first and then went over it with a fineliner. Again, the rest of the page was all done by dry blending the Gelatos with a brush. The effect is of course not all that different from Distress Inks, but the Gelatos are more tranlucent I found and have a lovely creamy texture that blends really well with the Prisma pencils.

Below, a couple more pages, all done with very simlar techniques.

The left side is copied and adapted from one of Valerie's Colouring Books. I don't actually own the book, but it has the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon, so I looked through the pages and then kind of copied one of them, as I loved both the quote and the design.

The bricks round about were stencilled with Gelatos and one of Tim's Layering Stencils.

The scroll here was again copied from the colouring book but then I designed the rest round about it myself. (Sorry, I digitally obliterated the text as that was rather personal).

This final page is pretty much my own design, I just looked at another lettered quote online.

The lettering was all done with coloured pencils, which was kind of fun to do.

Well that's it for today, thank you for your visit and I hope you have fun with your own art adventures!

xxxxx