Recycle

Hello ORT friends,

Today I want to show my layout for our monthly challenge!

I loved the proposal to work with the theme of recycling!

The colors are beautiful and are perfect each other, and also love because they are the colors of the flag of my country.

Let's start?

1 - First, separate a textured white cardstock, watercolors, gelatos, brush and, spray with water.

2 - The first color brown, I know my watercolor in the tube. I diluted a bit of watercolor with water and

applied with the help of the brush, making splashes.

3 - I repeated the process with the color green.

4 - And I did the same procedure with the gelato. I used the baby wipe to spot the sheet.

5 - I made a circle with wire and put the photo.

6 - Now, decorate with flowers, sparkles and buttons.

7 - Add a title or journaling.

8 - With a fine tip pen, draw a frame.

Project details!

I hope you like the project!

This year was the last. See you again in January!

I wish a great Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!

Luciana W

Candy's tutorial

Hello everyone. Candy here this is my very first tutorial for you all for Off The Rails Scrapbooking. So so excited. Today I have created for you all a photo video tutorial so sit back and enjoy.

You can visit my blog and see more of my work here

I have used a 6x6 inch canvas

gesso

tissue paper

matt medium any brand will do

prima mask

mango, blood orange, green and boysenberry gelatos

texture paste any brand

spray water bottle

pitt and mototow pens

Serenity in April

Hi there!

It's Heather McMahon back today with a layout I made using the seriously awesome April mood board for Off The Rails. Or should I say 'mood boards' as there were two to choose from!

Here they are:

I chose to use the first one as I loved the silver glitter with the lime green. Here's what I made:

To make the background, I first took a sheet of Webster's Pages Hall Pass 'Field Goal' paper and applied gesso through a Crafter's Workshop stencil:

I then rubbed a Gelato through another stencil, first by applying it directly to the stencil, then by rubbing it in further with my finger:

I then added some stamping - I used some frame stamps and some Kaisercraft 'Film Edges' stamps:

This is what it looked like when I had finished the background:

I then added a strip of chipboard chevrons from The Dusty Attic which I painted white and staggered behind my photo. I added some flowers, leaves and chevrons that were fussy-cut from Webster's Pages Beautiful Chic 'In Bloom' paper plus some silver twine:

The title and triangles are both from The Dusty Attic and I coated them with Beck BT's Tinby Designs Metallic Melts. I love the textural, sparkly finish on these:

 Happy scrappin'!


Heather McMahon

Gelatos Part 2: watercolour with gelatos

Hi everyone!

I have a super easy yet super fun technique to share with you today - using gelatos as watercolours.

First, prepare your page with gesso, so you don't get a crumbly mess. 

(This is a page I primed ages ago and it's been pressed against an completed page when my journal was closed, hence the specks all over it!)

Then, wet your paint brush and brush it on the tip of your gelato to release the pigments. 

 Then, just dab it on your page, no rhyme or reason, just keep dabbing til you see an effect you like. Get more water on you brush and pick up more colour from time to time.

Repeat the process with as many colours as you like for your project. Wait for one colour to dry before adding another colour over the top, otherwise the colours will just mix.

Once you've got the desired look for your page, you can create splatters. I just drag the brush across the tip of the gelato and keep the movement going above the page, and droplets of colour fall off and splatter on the page.

And there you have it, a background done and ready to journal on :) 

Have fun experimenting with your gelatos, and don't forget to share with us on our Facebook page if you give this technique a go!

Catie xo

Gelatos Tutorial Part One

Hi All :)

 

My turn today :) and by special request, I've made a video with a few different techniques for using those scrumptious little sticks of colour - yep, GELATOS!

 

There are a few more things I want to show you all, but I'll save them for Part Two ;)

 

So, without further ado, you can check out Part One  HERE.

 

Enjoy and thanks for watching xo

 

Using Colours Outside Your Comfort Zone

Hi everyone! It's Catie on the blog today and my turn today to share a project with you. I've done an art journal page using colours that I'm not naturally drawn to. I tend to lean towards blues and greens, so this time I've mixed it up a bit by throwing in some pink (I REALLY don't like pink!), yellow and orange.  Here goes!

1. I didn't prime my pages this time... Just raw, blank pages 😊

2. Gelato goodness!

3. Colour blocks of gelato around the page - the beauty of gelatos is you can just go crazy with colour, and it all looks fab!!

4. Blend using a wet wipe.

1. Put some gold gelato around the edges of the pages.

2. Blend for a subtle border.

3. Define the areas of colour with black gelato.

4. Blend/smudge with wet wipe.

1. Water colour stick...

2. I coloured the edges of the blocks of colour on the pages, then...

3. Using a water colour brush...

4. ...blended the water colour into the gelato.

1. Mixing some colours to get a shade more suited to that of the gelato.

2. And blend.

3. The water colours subtly add a bit more colour at the outer edges of the blocks of colour.

4. Then, using stencils and white gel pen (which I later went over with Posca pen so it can be seen!!)

1. I just coupled circles around the pages...

2. Then added a little detail to them to make bubbles.

3. Then some stamping... 

4. ...and some doodling.

1,2,3: more stamping and doodling.

4. Adding some more definition to the bubbles with silver pen.

1&2. Sharpies for the title work.

3&4. Stencils and whipped spackle for some more dimension on the page. 

1. Stencil work and stamping.

2,3,&4. Water colour paint splatters.

And, voila!

Hope you've enjoyed the process for creating this page. 

Thanks for looking xo

Black Gesso and Gelatos

Hello again!

Last night I did some experimenting with black gesso and gelatos in my art journal.

I've taken some step by step pics of the procedure to inspire you to play and try something perhaps a little different.

1. First I just applied a layer or two of black gesso to my background. The white lines appeared because there's already stuff on the other side of the page. I was going to give it another coat and make it completely black, but decided I like it the way it is.

2. Then I started drawing some circles with different coloured gelatos. 

3 & 4. I used a small paint brush and went over each circle with a little water to spread the colour and set it with my heat gun.

1. So in #1 in the set below, you can see what the page looked like after I'd added several different coloured circles. At this stage, I was just playing around really, and didn't have any set ending in mind.

2 & 3. I then decided to cut off some chunks of gelato and melt them on to the page for a splatter effect.

4. I liked that, so decided to blend 2 colours at once. 

1. Then, to create some different texture, I used my scalpel to spread the melted gelato around a bit.

2 & 3 & 4. More mixing and blending and melting colours together 😊

1. So, a little tip when melting the chunks of gelato: spray the gelato with a little water, then hold your heat gun up high above the page until the gelato starts to stick a little, otherwise it will just go shooting off your page! 

2. As it starts to melt you can bring your heat gun down closer to the page and use it to direct the melted gelato all over the place to create a splatter effect.

3. After I felt there were enough random splatters around the page, I used my scalpel to scrape and smear again.

4. And this is how we're looking now!

1 & 2. The page was feeling a bit chalky and gritty now, so I sealed it with some gloss gel.

3. It's a little tricky to see, but the brush strokes stay in the gel, giving some more texture to the page. Love me some texture!

4. I then used a white Pitt Big Brush Stampers Pen to draw some flowers. I tried a gel pen for some finer detail, and a chalk marker, but neither of those would work on the gel. 

1. You can see the butterfly I drew with the pen... Not quite enough, so I went over it later with the Pitt pen.

2. I then went over the white and added detail with a black marker (a Sharpie).

And here's the finished product! 

This was fun, just playing around with different techniques, which is what art journaling is all about for me. I probably won't add any words of wisdom or inspiration to this, as I like it how it is. Hope you've been inspired to try something a little different. Thanks for reading along

Catie xx

Revamping a Layout

Hullo my friends! Lizzy with you today – to show you how I’ve ‘revamped’ a page that I created & never used for its original purpose. Plus a few hints on how you can use Faber-Castell gelatos to create a background.

Here’s my ‘before’ page.

And 'after':

 Initially, I did this:

Yeah, a bit radical. But necessary!!

CREATING A GELATO BACKGROUND

Take a sheet of plain card stock. Coat with gesso, or something similar. I used Matisse ‘Whte’ emulsion, which is similar. What you need is any product that will coat your paper, so when you slosh on a pile of water it won’t turn to mush. I used the white to tone down the colours as I worked with them – that’s the look I was aiming for.

Oh yeah - I keep my gesso in these bottles - easier to work with! Then I work out where my photo will go, mark it with pencil, so I don’t waste putting the color where it won’t be seen.

 Next step, choose your colours & simply squiggle them onto your paper.

Put lots on. Then with a water spray [an old mist bottle is the best], spray on a LOT of water. So much that it ‘pools’ on your page.

Next, using your finger, basically ‘finger paint’ it.

Once you’ve done this –working the colours in together a bit as well, add more water. Now tip your paper up & down so the colours ‘run’ together. If you want drips, now is the time to create these.

If there is too much water, simply add more Gelatos at this stage & work them in again. Once you’re happy with the ‘look’, you can leave it as is. Or do this extra step. VERY gently, gingerly almost, using some paper towel, blot the paper. This gives a bit more texture which I like, & softens & blends the colours even more.

That’s it! Let dry. I’m impatient, so I use my old hair dryer to dry my page.

If you find it has curled up, then simply coat the back side with gesso or paint – any wet medium will do. Once it dries, your whole page will be flat. This tip comes from Zeneva Kovic…..& it’s a fabulous one!

So, now I’ve got my paper & the bits from the original page I wanted to add, plus some extras…& I set about making it look decent. Some of the silver doily went under the edges, softened with gesso. I re-jigged the title & added a heart punched from the original paper - stamped, then also gessoed:

This page was for a challenge ‘One Little Word’ in June, where you had to use the word ‘will’…so I stamped that on the background…crookedly, but that was OK…I just made it more crooked ‘til it looked OK!  Here's a few more closies:

Hope this tutorial helps you in some small way. For me, best of all, I ‘rescued’ my page & now I’m happy with it!
Happy scrapping ~ Lizzy ♥♥♥