Now, I have a confession, I fell off the no shopping wagon
big time. So I’m restarting my shopping
moratorium. No more craft shopping until
I post 50 projects on this blog, unless I run out of something, like cardstock
or adhesive.
Before I get to today’s projects, I want to point out that
Artsy Inkers is getting ready to have another party starting on Saturday. There will be challenges, and prizes and lots
of fun to be had. So you should swing by
and sign up on the message board and join the fun. Once again, I’ll be hosting a challenge
called Color My World. But if you want
to know the details and play along, you need to join us over at Artsy
Inkers. We are a great bunch of stampers/cardmakers/crafter
and we have lots of fun.
Now on to the main attraction. I saw a post on the Hero Arts blog using a
cool technique for creating backgrounds.
Here’s the link. The jist is
that you add color to watercolor paper, spray water on a stencil, and put the
stencil on the paper so that the water leeches off some of the color. Well, I did not have much success with
it. I wish I had remembered to photo the
backgrounds I created before turning them into cards, but I forgot.
Here is one of my first attempts, and you can hardly see any
of the hearts from the stencil, which I created with my silhouette.
For the focal image, I stamped the heart with Versamark ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. Then I inked it with Distress Ink in Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry. I also spritzed it with water. The image is by My Favorite Things, which is located not too far from where I live. The ribbon and button flower are from my stash.
On this one, you can’t see any hearts at all.
The images are by Inkadinkado and I stamped them with Brilliance ink. I used Distress Ink in Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry for the background. And the ribbon is from January's ribbon club by Really Reasonable Ribbon (RRR). The gems are actually a light grey.
Given my lack of luck with the technique, I decided to start
playing with the stencil and water. On
this one, I colored the base with Distress Ink in Spun Sugar and added Distress Ink in Picked Raspberry with the stencil and then
spritzed with water before removing the stencil so the hearts would bleed a
little.
Then I took the stencil, flipped it and stamped onto another
piece of paper to create this background.
For the focal image, I again stamped the heart by MFT with Versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. I swiped Distress ink in Shabby Shutters, Picked Raspberry and Worn Lipstick. The ribbon is from RRR's February Ribbon Club. The heart is chipboard and I covered it with liquid pearls.
Then I made several backgrounds by doing basically the opposite
of the HA technique I was trying. I put
the stencil down and spritzed the paper with the stencil in place. So instead of leaching the color from around
the hearts, the color was leeched from the hearts.
For this one, I used Distress Inks in Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry.
Then I made a couple of cards in red, using Distress Inks in Barn Door and Fired Brick.
The image is by Inkadinkado and stamped with ColorBox Pigment ink in Cranberry. I created the stitched hearts using the Sew Easy tool, which is a complete lie. It does not do a very good job of punching the holes in cardstock.
On this one, the focal image is by Stampabillities (which used to have the license for House Mouse but now it is Stampendous). I colored them with watercolors and added some gem brands to the corners.
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