WooHoo it’s Teapot Tuesday. The gremlins in cyber space gave us Teapotters so grief this week and we had to wait for the challenge to go ‘live’..no cheating!! Our challenge is to bring some Peace, Love and Lava Lamps to Lesley of Edmonton, Canada. I hope our cards bring some sunshine and smiles to Lesley.
I tried to create a lava lamp but I am thinking it looks more tie-dyed. There is terrific challenge at TLC477 this week called Pointillism, I havenÂ’t really done enough dots to be true dot art, but I was inspired never the less!!
This background was created by spraying several Dylusions ink sprays on a large sheet of tin foil (saves cleaning my fancy ink mat – just throw the foil out when you finish). I digress, after spraying some ink, I spritzed the inks with water.
Next step, take a piece of card stock and swish/dab it through the ink/water. Check the card and turn around and redip into the ink puddle until you have the coverage desired. Stop here to get this smooth effect.
On other cards where I have used the Dylusions inks, I spritzed the finished inky cardstock with more water – it gives a great rainy sort of blotchy look. If you want an even soft finish, leave out this step like I did here.
This is heaps of fun to do but it is very messy. I tried to remove the ink from my hands by using a cut lemon dipped in sugar (I read that somewhere). ROTFIA …..this is my new acronym for Rolling On The Floor In Agony……I completely forgot about the 2” cut on the palm of my hand. That is a long story involving a very sharp knife and a butternut pumpkin. It seemed to happen in slow motion and I could hear my Mother saying “Don’t cut toward yourself Susan”. Oh that conversation took place in my head, Ma lives in the big retirement village in the sky.
Thank you for looking and have a wonderful day. I off to post this now.
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 GMT Views: 1824
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