heather maria
Stormy Skies
I love the effect of the resist techniques that Jennifer has been showing us on the blog this week. So I thought I’d do some resist on this card.
I wanted to make a kind of stormy summer sky for the background so I embossed the grass in white on watercolour paper. Then I dabbed distress inks (shabby shutters, broken china and faded jeans) onto a piece of tinfoil and spritzed with water. I placed the embossed image in the ink, and hoped for the best as this was my first time trying this technique! The first attempt turned into a blobby mess so this is the second attempt.
A while ago I had dabbed alcohol inks and blending solution on glossy paper. When they didn’t blend and looked awful, I realised that I had used photo paper which wouldn’t work. I saved the paper anyway and stamped these dragonflies on it. For the card itself I embossed the Raindrop Background in white and applied faded jeans distress ink. I did a little bit of stitching on this card so I’m also entering the card into Jenny's Challenge #10 (In Stitches) suchins.blogspot.com/2010/06/challenge-10-in-stitches.html.
It's a dull day here today, so a dull photo I'm afraid! My blog stampingandstitching.blogspot.com/
Stormy Skies
I love the effect of the resist techniques that Jennifer has been showing us on the blog this week. So I thought I’d do some resist on this card.
I wanted to make a kind of stormy summer sky for the background so I embossed the grass in white on watercolour paper. Then I dabbed distress inks (shabby shutters, broken china and faded jeans) onto a piece of tinfoil and spritzed with water. I placed the embossed image in the ink, and hoped for the best as this was my first time trying this technique! The first attempt turned into a blobby mess so this is the second attempt.
A while ago I had dabbed alcohol inks and blending solution on glossy paper. When they didn’t blend and looked awful, I realised that I had used photo paper which wouldn’t work. I saved the paper anyway and stamped these dragonflies on it. For the card itself I embossed the Raindrop Background in white and applied faded jeans distress ink. I did a little bit of stitching on this card so I’m also entering the card into Jenny's Challenge #10 (In Stitches) suchins.blogspot.com/2010/06/challenge-10-in-stitches.html.
It's a dull day here today, so a dull photo I'm afraid! My blog stampingandstitching.blogspot.com/