Tuesday 3 December 2019

Make Memories


Good Morning.
Yesterday over at Splitcoast Stampers, we were challenged to create a card using Snowflakes as the theme and this technique created by Lee aka LuvLee she called Paink for our background.
Since I love to try new techniques, I was ready to try it out.

Here are the instructions she gave:
1. Sponge blue acrylic paint lightly on cardstock
2. Spritz blue ink refill lightly and brush (I drizzled evenly)
3. Drizzle blending solution, brush then set with heat tool


Lee's card was a blue base and since blue works great with snowflakes, I decided to make mine blue too (big surprise eh?).  I followed her instructions and my card came together easily.
I began by sponging on some blue acrylic paint, then I filled up a small spritzer bottle with diluted re-inker and sprayed some over the sponged bkg.  I dried that, then drizzled on the Blending Solution.  I added an extra step, I splattered the piece with white acrylic paint to look like snow.

I dried the piece then die cut out the dots.  I then placed it into my Misti and stamped the large snowflake from Tim Holtz in the corner using some Versamark ink and white heat embossed it.
I did the same with the smaller snowflakes from MFT.
Lastly, I stamped in the sentiment, added the black dots and then simply mounted it onto a heavy white card base.


Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Stamp- ANYTHING GOES
CAS on Fridays- BLACK, WHITE AND ONE OTHER COLOR
Shopping Our Stash- HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Use Your Stuff- SNOW

Supplies
Stamps- Lg Snowflake (TH); Snowflakes (MFT); Being Unique (TT)
Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Versamark; Blueprint Sketch Distress re-inker (TH)
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Hemstitch die (Spellbinders); white and blue acrylic paint; sponge;
Blending Solution; paint brush; white eb powder; black dots

11 comments:

Pat said...

This is really pretty Karen and the snowflakes and the die cut rectangular dots look great too, and love the sentiment you have used. x

Patty Albertson said...

It's really beautiful Karen! I love new techniques too so I'll have to try this! Thanks for sharing!

cuilliesocks said...

Absolutely gorgeous Karen, beautifully coloured and designed, lovely sentiment too Kate x x

nancy littrell said...

OMG...Fabulous acrylic paint and watercolored background technique, Karen. I definitely want to try. TFS all your detailed steps. That always helps:-) Happy Holidays, my friend. Hugs..Nancy

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

So beautiful with the look of frost.
Faith x

Christine Alexander said...

Love the way you used acrylic ink such a beautiful snowflake image :)

Susan said...

That is stunning, Karen! The background is just beautiful - perfect for the lovely white snowflakes!

kiwimeskreations said...

What a fabulous result from and interesting technique Karen
Blessings
Maxine

missgailly said...

Fantastic background and I love the die cut rectangle of dots. Cool! (excuse the pun). Thanks for playing along at USE YOUR STUFF - Gail

Susan said...

Love the way you used the acrylic paint! A beautiful card!

Verna Angerhofer said...

Beautiful snowflake background design. Love the blue.