A Big Texas Hello!
Today’s card is out of this world! I don’t know about you but most often my
cards are more on the feminine side. The
For The Guys class over at Altenew.com gave us good ideas and inspiration for making
masculine cards. I did a card like the one demonstrated for the
class. What I learned was I don’t have
to be so careful and calculated with inked back grounds all the time and still
come out with amazing end results.
This card starts off with an A2 piece of white card stock as
the card front. I liked the inked
results so much, I used the entire panel, so the final card size is a little
larger than a A2. I used a couple
different shades of blue dye inks and some black ink to create my
background. I started by using the
lightest blue ink all over my card front.
I added the darker blue ink starting at the edge and about halfway in
toward the center blending the two as I went along. I did this in random places on the card front. I did not blend the entire card front. I wanted the blues to blend in some places
and keep their individual colour in random spots. I added the black in around the edges of the
card a little heavy and very lightly moved toward the center just covering the
blues. I used my spray bottle to add
some water droplets on to the inked background.
Then I took a piece of folded paper towel and pressed down on my background.
This created the faded-out droplet
appearance on the card front. Next, I
took a drop of white acrylic paint and a couple drops of water and mixed them
together to make a thinned out white liquid.
I used my Tim Holtz splatter brush to splatter the thinned liquid all
over the background. I’m not sure if you
can see it but some of the spots have tails which look like comets or shooting
stars. I let the background dry
completely.
On some white cardstock, I used first generation stamping
with Altenew’s Mini Moon Stamp Set and their crisp dye ink cubes Citrus Burst
and Silver Stone to create my moon. I die
cut the moon using the Mini Moon matching die. Before
I attached the moon to the card front, I heat embossed the sentiment from the
stamp set on the card front with Versa Mark and white fine detail embossing powder.
I
did a little extra on this card by carrying the theme over to the inside bottom
of the card.
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Joyce
So so so gorgeous!! What a wonderful background!! You are a pro!
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This is gorgeous! I love your background. Really cool.
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