Wee One- Sanded Embossed Background

Hello and Welcome

It's my turn to host the TLC Challenge (Technique Lovers) over at Splitcoast Stampers.

I like to try and think of some challenges that would be accessible to everyone and this is the one I came up with.  

I've been going through my background pieces that have been inked or painted that I haven't used for cards or that I just went 'yuck' after I was done.  You know those scenarios don't you?

Well instead of throwing them away, I put them in a bin and keep them for die cutting or for who knows what.  That is how this card started off.....and I watched a video by Jennifer McGuire a few weeks ago too so that helped.  

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

• I went through my bin of discarded backgrounds and found this one that was blue and green.  Since I wanted to make a generic baby card, I figured this one might work.  It was a blue and green paint roll off from one of my Gel Plate printing sessions.  (For those unfamiliar with a Gel Plate, you roll paint or ink onto it with a brayer.  Many times, while rolling smooth with a brayer, there is too much paint, so to remove some of it I roll it onto scrap paper.  I keep those scraps for future whatever.)
• I placed the painted piece into my Cozy Knit embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug to emboss.  I removed the piece and then used a piece of sandpaper to remove the ink from all the high points of the embossing.  It totally transformed the look of the background.  (I wish I would have taken a picture of the before and after....especially since I hated the before!)  I set that aside.
• Next, I die cut the scalloped circle using a Spellbinder die and placed that into my Misti.  I stamped the Baby Bunny from Impression Obsession with some Versafine Clair Noir ink.  I clear heat embossed it as I wanted to watercolour the bunny and the embossing helps contain the wet ink. 
• Using some Peacock Feathers and some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide inks, I watercoloured in the bunny.  I just press the ink pad directly onto my Tim Holtz Glass mat, spray with water to dilute and use a paint brush to add colour.
• Next, I stamped the sentiment from the Little One Animals from Photoplay onto some white and fussy cut it out.
• I glued the sanded background onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I pop dotted the scalloped bunny circle over the background, the glued the sentiment banner over the circle.

 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

I hope you get a chance to try it out.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- SPRING/EASTER MOOD BOARD

Animal Friends- BUNNY

The Crafting Challenge- PASTEL COLOURS

Supplies

Stamps- Baby Bunny (IO); Little One Animals (Photoplay)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Distress Oxides

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook-Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Cozy Knit eb folder (Fun Stampers Journey); Cuttlebug, sandpaper;

acrylic paint (Dollar Tree); pop dots; Scalloped circle die- Spellbinders; paintbrush; TH glass mat;

Misti (My Sweet Petunia), clear eb powder (Wow)