Watercoloured background

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Morning Thursday bloggers,

Hope your week is going ok.

I'm looking forward to seeing Lisa later today on 

the Imagination Crafts show on Create and Craft at 12 midday.

Then Sue is on at 6pm so be sure to tune in as there are sure to be some great demos planned and fantastic goodies up for grabs....

So onto today's card featuring an inked background technique.

I apologise in advance for the picture quality but I had to take them in artificial light.

Anyway I started off by swiping Versacolour inks in Canary and Orange across my craft mat.

I then lightly spritzed with water so that I could use a sponge to swipe across my card background.

Watercolour card is a good option or a card that withstands the water.

I was quite gentle with this technique and blended a bit as I went along.

Next I used clear stamps from a set by Artemio called Butterfly Collage.

I'm afraid these might be out of stock now.

You could however substitute with something like the  Carte Postale set.

I placed the stamps on to the inked mat to ink them up, the trick here is not to have the mat too wet or the image will look too smudged when stamped.

This can be seen a bit on the bottom left image.

However we are just creating a watercolour effect background 

so we don't want to worry too much about perfection.

 We are simply trying to create an interesting effect.

I trimmed my card to fit on a 15 x 15cm square card blank, I trimmed to 13cm square.

I then stamped the main images and sentiment from the Artemio set in 

Black Onyx Versafine.

As a substitute you could use the lovely Butterflies by Sharon Bennett for Hobby Art

To finish I lightly sponged Black Soot Distress Ink around the card edge before sticking onto my card base.

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