Beach Inspired

Happy Saturday.

I have been so super busy and missing my 'play' time so I just went for it today and played around with inks and paper.  No direction or plan; just grabbed some inks and paper and stamps and drywall tape of course!

So, I began by rubbing some Peacock Feather Distress Oxide ink onto an acetate sheet, sprayed with water and pressed onto my paper.  I hope you are not sick of me talking about my Acetate Inking Technique but it is so super easy, fast and fun to do that I am addicted to it for adding ink to a background.  I repeated that process using Salty Ocean DOX then some Faded Jeans as well, overlapping the inks. 

Again, make sure you dry the layers of ink before adding more on top for better coverage.

After I had inked the paper to where I was happy, I sat and thought about what to do next.

I remembered that I had rediscovered an old stamp in my stash that has no name on it.  I bought it so many years ago but it has a sort of nautical theme to it.  It is a wood block, 4 sided stamp and one of the sides has the stars on it so I grabbed that and inked them with more Salty Ocean DOX and stamped.

After that, I stamped some details and then this wonderful sentiment from Inkylicious that is new-to-me  I added further detail by stenciling with some drywall tape, splattering with a paintbrush then....I had created a collage style card.

Where will your 'play' time take you?

Have a great weekend and thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

A Inky Mess- MIXED MEDIA

Artistic Stamper- STENCILS AND MASKS

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Footprints (Inkylicious); stars (Christine Adolph, Stampington); Mixed Media Elements (STAMPlorations); 

Collage Des Ronds (Carabelle)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Distress Oxides (Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers,

Faded Jeans)

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; drywall tape; acetate sheet; Mister (TH); paintbrush