I made this thank you card for my dear friend Loretta. I first heat embossed the image using white embossing powder. Then I used 3 colors of blues and greens distress inks and sponged them on starting with the lightest color and going to the darkest color. I left the bottom the very lightest because I thought I was going to stamp a sentiment here, but in the end, I die cut one instead. When you are done with the sponging, take a paintbrush and plain water and paint the water all over your image. Then place a paper towel over the image you just painted with water to lift the color up. You may have to do this 2 or 3 times to get the desired bleaching you want. Now take a dark aqua spectrum noir or copic marker and outline the flower image to make it pop off the page more; be very careful to not color on the white embossing because it will change the color of the embossing to aqua. If this happens, use a QTip and some isopropyl alcohol to gently lift the color away from the embossing. Also, take a light gray spectrum noir marker and add lines into the flowers for some depth; again, avoiding the white embossing. Take a paint brush and get it really wet with water, and splatter it on your background to create a mottled look. I separated the thank you die so it would fit on the image panel better. The image panel is layered onto DSP that is adhered to the card base. I am not positive, but I believe this is a technique I saw by WPlus9 somewhere on YouTube. I really enjoyed watching this card come together with this fun technique.
Date: Thursday, August 4, 2016 GMT Views: 429
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Accessories: Spellbinders 5x7 matting basics A and B dies; PaperTreyInk Thank You Die; Sponges; #2 and #4 paint brush; Spectrum Noir Markers; Hero Arts White Embossing Powder; Stamp-a-ma-jig; Misc. Sequins from Michael's Craft Store
Techniques: Heat embossing; bleaching Distress Inks with Water; Sponging; Stamping; Die Cutting
Registered: November 25, 2007 Location: Rudolph, WI Posts: 14498
Tue, Aug 09, 2016 @ 4:41 PM
Karen this is beautiful and THANK YOU for explaining what you did to get such lovely color. Very Well done and when I get back in my card room, will have to check this out again so I can TRY to do it! Thanks! tfs
Registered: January 20, 2010 Location: Brampton, Ontario Posts: 26138
Wed, Aug 10, 2016 @ 8:17 AM
What a gorgeous set of cards! I love the effect that technique gave. The white embossing looks so delicate against the background. Beautiful. ...and I'll add my thanks too about the details you included in your comments. I bet you see a number of cards using this technique in the days to come. :-)