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
