Reflect and Hope

Hello and Welcome

After a long week, I enjoy watching a live on Friday nights hosted by Vicki Boutin.  

For those of you that don't know her, she's a mixed media artist, has her own brand, creates live online for free every Friday night and is a fellow Canadian with a big heart!

(You can catch her videos on FB or YouTube)

Last Friday, she showed one technique for creating Bokeh backgrounds. 

 I haven't done that in awhile so decided to make one.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with the term 'bokeh' basically it is a photographic effect that photographers can give to a photo to make the lights looked blurred and reflective.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and placed the Marvelous Masks Rectangle from ACLD over my cut panel.  These masks are so great when you want to have a crisp, white border left around the edge of your inking or stamping.
• I used my Infinity Circle dies to cut some different sized circles on a sheet of acetate so I could reuse it.
• Using the different size circles, I inked them randomly using some Blueprint Sketch, Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio.  The DOX inks are opaque so they blend over each other which is great for this technique.
• I kept blending different sizes of the circles, most without reinking my blending brush to give some a more faded look in the background.  
• When I was happy with the inking, I removed the Rectangle mask and placed the panel into my Misti.
• I stamped the dragonfly and the sentiment from the same set.  I clear heat embossed the image to help show more definition to the wings and body.
• I replaced the mask over the panel, then splattered with my black, then white Posca pen.
• I glued the inked panel onto a piece of navy cardstock, then onto a white card base.

 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Here are the masks I used:

Marvelous Masks Rectangle

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore- ANYTHING GOES

Crafter's Cafe- CAS

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Dragonfly Refection (Visible Image)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair

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

Accessories and Tools- Rectangle Mask (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

Infinity circle die (HA);  Clear eb powder (HA); white and black Posca pen