Ink Lifting

 

Welcome

Today's card may look tricky, but actually it was very quick and easy to do with some ink blending and then some ink lifting using water.

I am playing with this unique stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called Dot Spokes.

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

• I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock and inked it up randomly, with some Distress Oxide inks.  I like using those inks as they really give a nice effect when water is added.  The colours I used were:  Blueprint Sketch, Peacock Feathers and some Wilted Violet.
• After I was happy with the inking, I sprayed the Dot Spokes stencil with a good amount of water and carefully placed it onto my inked background, being sure the stencil made good contact with the paper.
• I pressed over the stencil on the paper with some scrap paper so the water would have a good amount of time to saturate and wet the ink.
• I carefully removed the stencil and set the panel aside to dry.
• Next, I die cut the sentiment from a piece of navy cardstock, then some white and glued them together.  I offset them a bit for a different look.
• I splattered the dry panel with my white Posca pen to add interest.
• When I looked at the finished panel, I thought it needed something more, so I rubbed the edges with my Versamark ink and using some white embossing powder, heated that up.
• I glued it onto a dark purple piece of cardstock, then onto an A2 size card panel.
• I glued the sentiment over the bkg. and added some blue gems for more interest.

Here is the stencil I used:

Dot Spokes

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Happy Little Stamper- STENCIL ANYTHING GOES

Love to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Mon.- DIE CUT

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX, Versamark

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

Accessories and Tools- Dot Spokes stencil (ACLD); Mister (Ranger); 

TE Blending Brushes; Just Because die (SSS); white EB powder; gems (Dollar Tree)