Saturday 1 February 2014

February Challenge & January’s Winner

Happy Saturday & happy February 1st blog visitors, we hope January treated you well. Thank you for all the entries in the blog challenge, random.org picked the winner…..


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Number 25 is Emma Sheppard. Congratulations Emma! Please email Lisa at lisabaker1@btinternet.com & she will give your voucher code.
 
The new challenge is now on the challenge page & we’ve made some changes to the rules, so please read them carefully.
 
I made this card to go along with the theme of the challenge. There are various ways of getting a resist effect & I hope to show them in the coming weeks.

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The first thing to do is wipe your card stock with an anti-static pad. Then stamp the image ( I used Joy Crafts Vintage Flourish Flower/Leaf 3) with an embossing ink, my favourite is Versamark. Handy hint; if you’re using a new ink pad it will be very juicy, so use lots of light tapping to ink the stamp. Otherwise the ink will spread out & you’ll get marks on the card. Cover with embossing powder, WOW Bright White in this case & heat set.

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Blend a water based, dye ink over the card. Here I used Weathered Wood distress ink. You could also use Adirondack inks & there are others on the market. Take a clean cloth & wipe the ink off the embossed areas.

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That’s it. Quick & very simple to do. To finish the card, I stamped the quote from the Indigo Blu Discover Your Passion set with Versamark & silver EP & edged with Weathered Wood DI.

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I covered a scrap of linen textured card with Victorian Velvet DI, flicked some water over it & dried with the heat tool before die cutting it with  the Joy Crafts Vintage Flourish Flower/Leaf 3 die. I then added some dots with a white pen.
 
 
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The finished card again.
 
 
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Vintage Flourishes - Flower / Leaf 3   Clear Stamp - flower / leaf 3     Indigo Blu Discover your Passion Rubber Stamp  WL01 Bright White  1/2 metre of silver Diamond Mesh    Versamark Ink Pad  

 
Thanks for looking, we hope you’ll give this technique a try & enter the challenge. Until next time, happy crafting.
 
Kirsten.

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