Friday 27 February 2015

More Inky backgrounds with Imagination Stencils and Lavinia Stamps....

Good Morning bloggers,

 I am standing in for Kirsten as she covered a few of my posts last week, bless her (my rock!)
 
So today I thought that I would show you a make that I made last year but again creating a inky background and explain it in a little more depth.......
 
I used my Distress Inks  to create the initial background with the Imagination Crafts Diamond Stencil. This is one of my favourite stencils and I use it so much as you have probably realised!!
  I used a Blending Tool to add two colour inks through the stencil but as you can see in the second photograph I embossed two lines creating a border using my large headed embossing tool (8mm) and a scoring board through the centre of my cardstock and the masked off that area with copy paper. Then when I put the stencil over the area and inked it with my blending tool it just went where I wanted it to. 
I then used TCW Chicken Wire Reversed Stencil over the top and Black Soot Distress Ink just in certain areas to add some more texture to the background......
 

 
I wanted a splodged area on the background but slightly controlled so I made a wash with some black gesso, loaded up a large paint brush and added a paint puddle to the top third of the card. I then took a plastic straw and blew some of the paint puddle upwards and outwards to the edges of the card. I repeated the same at the bottom but no so much.
With a smaller paint brush I flicked some black gesso over the background too......
 

 
 
 
For the flowers I used the Zen Flowers from Lavinia Stamps and coloured them with the Distress Inks. I also added a message from my stash......
 
Lastly I matted it firstly on to black card, it always makes an image pop if you have used a lot of black and adds drama to the piece and then on to a co-ordinating colour card and then on to my card.....
 
Well that is all from me for now, have a fabulous weekend and I will be back tomorrow with a special preview??????....
 
Hugs Lisa B xx
 

3 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card - I love the design and the colours you've used. Thanks for the instructions for creating the white panel across the card for the sentiment. I'll have to give this a try. xx

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  2. Lovely card. I've really got into backgrounds just now. Intrigued about tomorrow's post! Thank you, Jan

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  3. Love the layers of stencilling and the ink blowing. Very brave that !

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