This was an absolute HOOT to make. I felt like I was in elementary school again. My favourite part was wetting & smushing up the cardstock.
How-To:
A) Cut your cardstock to the width of your project & tear the edge off of it.
B) Wet torn cardstock & crumple it up (more crumple=more texture).
C) Unfold it, lay flat and add an ink-wash if you like
Or you can add ink with direct to paper method (before/after wetting)
I rinsed pieces with water after inking to make them more washed-out (But after that, cardstock won't take two wrinklings though, so just iron after)
I used the backside of one piece since it had more subtle colour
TO DRY IT:
If you iron between two papertowels gently,
the cardstock won't curl & it'll keep the wrinkly texture.
If you want lots of wrinkly dimension, just
skip ironing and let it dry naturally.
Other Card Details:
The houses are watercolored with Stampin' Up!s watercolour pencil crayons (watercolour tips on my blog--link below.)
The grass is made by ripping a piece of cardstock & then fringing it (grass tutorial by Suzy below at my blog.)
The windows with a Sakura clear glitter pen & the doorknobs are dotted with the silver end of a Zigainty.
The buttons are from SU (Fresh Favourites I) I've added watercolour pencil crayon to the tops of them for depth of colour (used hairspray as a fixitive.)
Other Card supplies:
Cardstock: Cool Caribbean (or it's white-cored twin "Breeze" at CTMH), Soft Sky, Naturals White, Gable Green. Ribbon: is SU's 5/8 grosgrain in Certain Celery.
Happy Craftin'
:0)
Mel
Pictures and Tips & Tutorial for unmounting your wheels here:
Registered: September 12, 2007 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 61347
Wed, Apr 02, 2008 @ 5:34 AM
Absolutely incredible techniques you've mastered! This is one of the sweetest cards I've seen: Love that wheel! Wow, that's a gem all by itself. Your coloring is so spectacular and makes this one heck of a great card. Nice, very nice, work!
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