Sunday card share #66

Happy Sunday everyone,
It’s Joy here with another card share and today’s share uses distress inks to create a blended background. Whenever I use distress ink in this way I always like the results and, I like to use some water for that splatter effect you see.

I used the same distress ink, Salty Ocean, to watercolour the bear’s hat and scarf after stamping the image with Archival Ink.  Now because I was colouring directly on my card base this time I kept my water brush from getting too wet by dabbing off on some paper towel. This helped me to prevent the card base from warping.

My final step was to heat emboss the Hello sentiment using some black Zing! embossing powder, I love the look of the embossed sentiment. In real life, it’s got a shine to it and just pops off the card.

Thank you for visiting the SN blog today, I hope you found some inspiration.

 

Tim Holtz – Distress Inks	Tim Holtz – Waterbrush – detailer tip	Neat & Tangled – Clear Stamps – Hello	Zing! Opaque Embossing Powder – Black
My Favorite Things – Cool Day – 4″X6″	Ranger – Mini – Ink Blending Tools	Core’dinations – 110lb Smooth Cardstock – White 8.5×11″

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Sunday card share #15

Welcome back to another SCS,

I love to make and send thank you cards, admittedly I don’t send them out often enough though. I must work on that 😉 I used distress inks and watercolour paper for everything except the card base for this weeks card. (ink colours – Old paper, Salty Ocean, & Spiced Marmalade)
I did some stencil work and water flicking to add a bit of interest to the cups & saucer, then added a die cut sentiment from the script celebrate die set from Tim Holtz & Sizzix.

Thanks for visiting and I’ll see you next Sunday.
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Easy Watercolor background with Fleur

Step by Step paper crafting tutorials

Hi all, today I am going to show you how to make a super easy watercolor background for your cards or layouts. For this project you will need Distress inks, water, cardstock and a sheet of plastic.

First take the Distress Inks and press them onto the plastic.

Add some water as much or as little as you want.  The more water the lighter the color will be.

Take a piece of cardstock and turn it over on top of the distress ink and move it around.

Voila a water color background – this first one I didn’t add a lot of water for this second one I will show you what it looks like with more water.

See how much lighter the background paper is?

Then decorate as you like.  I used the Dear Lizzy Fine and Dandy collection for these cards.

Fine & Dandy – 6×6 paper pad	Fine & Dandy – Washi Tape Book 6.5″X4″ W/6 Pages	Fine & Dandy – Bobbies	Fine & Dandy – Die Cuts	Fine & Dandy – Shaped Paperclips
Fine & Dandy – Sparkling Hearts/Gold Foiled Chipboard

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