Art Soul

Welcome

I hope you are all safe in your part of the world.

It's the weekend, so that meant I had some time to play...yeah!

I played with my Distress Oxide inks and a paint brush this time, inspired after watching a live from Vicki Boutin.  

So here's what I did to create this card.

• I cut a piece of heavy white cardstock to use as my card front and pulled out my Distress Oxide inks.  (Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Abandoned Coral and Mustard Seed)
• I pressed the Mustard Seed Distress Oxide onto my non-stick craft mat and diluted that with some water.  Using a paintbrush, I painted some onto my card base in a circular motion, creating the small circles.  I made sure to dry the first layer of colour using my heat tool before painting on the next colour.  
• I continued in the same way, painting circles around circles using the other colours mentioned above.  It helps to have the paper a bit wet and the ink very diluted.  
• When all the circles were painted and I was happy with the design, I stamped in some details in the background with the same inks as the circles.  I used some of the wet ink left over on my non-stick mat and dipped the large script into that and stamped with it to give a more diluted look to the text.
• I stamped the sentiment from Hampton Arts and clear heat embossed it.  
• The panel looked so flat, so I doodled around the circles and then splattered using my Posca pen.
• I glued it onto a piece of yellow cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FAVORITE TECHNIQUE

(watercolouring, just one of the many)

Creative Artiste Mixed Media- ANYTHING GOES

Just Us Girls- RAINBOW COLORS

Supplies

Stamps- Art Soul (Hampton Arts); Faded Text (TH); AALL and Create (338)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX inks

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- paintbrush; non-stick mat (TH); Posca pen; Wow clear eb powder;

heat tool (Ranger); Pigma Micron pen