Rainy Day in NY

Good Morning

I made today's card for a challenge over at Splitcoast.

The challenge was to create a monochromatic scene.

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

• I cut a piece of white cardstock, then placed it into my Misti with the stamp.  
• Next, I inked the stamp up with some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink and stamped it.
• Leaving the stamp in place, I moved my card panel slightly up and over, then inked up the stamp again with some Uncharted Mariner DOX ink and stamped to get the offset, repeated image.
• Using a wet paintbrush, I went over the ink to blur out the lines and make it look more like a rainy, wet day. 
• I decided not to add a sentiment so I could use this card for any occasion.
• After the panel was dry, I glued it onto a piece of blue cardstock, then onto a white A2 sized card base.

Many thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Sweet Stampin'- BASED ON A BOOK/SONG/FILM (song- NY< NY)

We Love Stamping- MASCULINE

Time Out- MONOCHROMATIC

Supplies

Stamp- Watercolor NY (Technique Junkies)

Inks- DOX

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

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); paintbrush

Reflections on a Rainy Day

Happy Saturday!

Time to have some fun.

Meet today's card.  

Just playing around with some Distress inks and a great scene stamp.

 Recently, I saw the challenge at Technique Junkies that showed how to do a 'drip' technique on your card.  I really wanted to give it a try using this great stamp from them.  So here's what I did.

I wanted to give the scene a reflective look, like it was a rainy day.

I placed the stamp inside my Misti, inked with Tuxedo black ink and stamped.  Leaving the stamp inside my Misti, I shifted the paper slightly and then inked the stamp with Salty Ocean Distress ink and stamped again.  I shifted the paper one last time and did a final inking with London Fog Memento.  The whole image looked blurred but wait....

At this point, I changed the technique a bit but did keep it a 'drip' technique as I didn't have a dropper on hand and not enough re-inkers to use.

So, I took a very wet paintbrush and dripped water down from the top of my card front.  I pressed Distress ink onto my non-stick craft mat and picked up some ink with my wet paintbrush and touched the water lines to give the appearance of rainfall.  The colour stays right where you have added the water.

I continued that process until I was happy with my colour drips then splattered to add to the rainy effect.

Now here's the final step.....again, get a very wet paintbrush and go over your stamped image to blend out the stamping lines and add to the reflective quality of your stamping.  The blurriness will remain but it will look more artsy and lend to the rainy feel.  Added a few splatters to look like raindrops.

Have a great weekend and thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look!

Adding my card to these challenges:

 Technique Junkies- DRIP TECHNIQUE 

Craft Stampers Magazine- TAKE A STAMP/ANYTHING GOES 

The Male Room- OFF THE EDGE 

(I dripped off the edge)

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Watercolor NY (Technique Junkies)

Ink- London Fog, Tuxedo Bl Memento; Blueprint Sketch, Shaded Lilac, Peacock Feathers

Stormy Sky Distress (TH)

Paper- heavy white cs (local store)

Accessories and Tools- MISTI, paintbrush