LDRS Creative and Faber Castell, part 2: A CAS tutorial on cardmaking with gelatos!

Good morning!!

My second project is a very CAS card using the Gelatos as a background.

To create it, I used some masking tape onto a piece of mixed media cardstock ( to create a 1" border. I then layered a few Gelatos from Purple to bright blue, and gently scrubbed the surface with a baby wipe. After that, I removed the tape, drew a line with my grey Pitt Pen on each side, stamped a sentiment from the Best Friends set (again with a black Pitt Pen), put it onto a piece of black cardstock and then on the gelato background. I coloured Jeans and a Tee with my Copic markers, fussy cut her out and outlined the edges with my grey Pitt Pen, and then paste her on the background. The final step was to take out a black cardstock and fold it in two to create a card base, stack some 3D foam adhesive on the back of the gelato background and then adhere it to the cardbase. Voilà!

LDRS Creative Teams Up With Faber Castell: A full scrapbooking page tutorial!

Welcome to Day 3 of LDRS Creative and Faber-Castell week long blog Hop!  What an exciting combining of Companies we have for you this week.  There will be so much inspiration on the LDRS Blog and Faber-Castell's Blog!  And of course prizes!

At the end of the week LDRS will be choosing one lucky winner to receive a $50 gift voucher to the LDRS store.  Faber-Castelo also has a $50 Prize Pack.  So be sure to leave a comment for your chance to win!!!!

And I also have two projects for you!

I was thrilled when receiving the amazing products from Faber-Castell and try to do my best to showcase them. 

I started with a 12"x12" white mixed media cardstock to make sure all the water wouldn't flood it. I put some white gesso with a spatula on the areas where I was going to use my Gelatos, then let it dry completely. 

Then, I put some Gold Champagne Gelato on a piece of wax paper, sprayed a good amount of water, scrub it all together and applied it on the gesso-ed areas on my paper. Since there's a lot of water, you can incline the background to create drips as much as you like. I let it dry, and repeat the same steps with the Iced Chai Gelato. 

Once everything is dried, I stenciled numbers with my red Big Brush  Pitt Pen and one of the stencils from the 102 Stencil Collection. I scribbled with a black Pitt Pen over them. After that, all I had to do was to tear up some scrap paper, lay it on the page, place my Wings image (coloured with Copic markers and outlined with a black Pitt Pen), add some Gilded Doily die-cuts here and there, and stamp a sentiment from the Just Because set with a black Pitt Pen onto a Gilded Oval label. Easy peasy!

Be sure to be back on Friday for my second project!