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Here is today's card I created after watching a Friday Night Live with Vicki Boutin.
For any of you that don't know Vicki, she is a Canadian Mixed Media artist that has a line of products with American Crafts.
Every Friday night, she does a live on FB and YouTube, all free!
One of my favourite products she has is her Art Crayons. That's what I used on this card.
So here's what I did to create my card.
- I cut a piece of white cardstock for my card front. I got out my Vicki Boutin Art Crayons and rubbed some purple and blue onto a piece of acetate. I picked up the crayon with a stencil brush and rubbed it onto my cardstock, blending the colours together, fading out towards the edges of the panel.
- These crayons are water soluble so when I was happy with the inking, I took the Messy Grid stencil from ACLD and using a wet stencil brush, I rubbed over it, lifting some of the ink and revealing the white cardstock underneath.
- Using some Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink, I stamped some script randomly over the bkg to add more interest, then splattered with my white and black Posca pen. **I get a lot of questions about the splatters using my Posca pen. When I want to add splatters, I press the tip of the pen onto my work surface to get the ink flowing a little bit, then I hold the pen over my project and tap it using a metal ruler.**
- As that dried, I looked through my stash of die cuts to find some flowers that would work on my card front. I like to die cut in advance using leftover scraps and keep them in a folder for future use. I found these and thought they worked great.
- When the panel was dry, I placed it into my Misti and rubbed it with my anti-static bag. I stamped the sentiment from Impression Obsession using some black Versafine Clair, then clear heat embossed it.
- I glued the flowers along the bottom of the card front panel, then onto a heavy white card base.
Here is the stencil I used in the background
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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.
Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- ANTHING GOES
Challenge Up Your Life- SPLATTERS
Try it on Tues.- SAY IT WITH FLOWERS
Supplies
Stamps- To Everything There is a Season (IO); Script (Penny Black)
Inks- Vicki Boutin Art Crayons; Distress Oxides; Versafine Clair
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)
Accessories and Tools- Messy Grid stencil (ACLD); Posca pens; Anti-static bag;
Lawn Fawn clear eb powder; stencil brush; Wildflower Stems dies- (TH-Sizzix);
Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Spellbinders Platinum die cutting machine
