This is for Linda's fun Ways to Use it Challenge - Silhouettes and Stripes. The inspiration for the background came from a TV report about the Northern Lights being seen in countries that don't usually see them. The pictures looked incredible and immediately reminded me of Cracked Pistachio and Pickled Raspberry Distress Inks.
The background started out life as a failed brusho background (dirty grey with a few tiny highlights of blue and yellow). When I say failed, I mean seriously ugly. I have learnt though that distress inks applied over the top of the brushos is a match made in heaven. The brusho acts like a smooth gesso coat.
Using the smack & squirt technique (smack distress ink pad onto al foil, squirt on a lot of water and scrub the inky water over the card using a foam blending tool). With the brusho undercoat you hardly need to do any blending, it sort of looks after itself.
The Lavinia fairy sitting on the branch was stamped about 4 times using MISTI and Versafine black onyx ink. I did the top half of the background stamping in Versafine and Archival for the foliage at the bottom. The archival ink is not as black as the versafine, so it makes a nice contrast.
The doodled border, water drops and sticks were hand drawn with micron pen and white Sharpie paint pen. Lydia has a great tutorial for the waterdrops here .
I cut two narrow strips from the stamped panel, then attached the panel to 4" x 8.25" black card base. I cut off the excess black (about half an inch) from the front and adhered the coloured pieces to the outer edge of the inside back. I hope that makes sense, even I am confused now. I hope strips of stamped card qualifies as stripes??
Thank you for looking.
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Fri, Jun 26, 2015 @ 8:53 AM
OK Susie...you're secret's out! All these wonderfully delightful little fairies are really you in another life...memories pulled from the very depths of your fathomless exciting mind. How else could you create such spectacular little fairy forests with all the astounding details you've incorporated...unless you've actually been there! Ha...GOTCHA!