Slightly Psychedelic

 

 

Good morning blog visitors, Kirsten here. I hope you're all enjoying the bank holiday weekend. For my card today I used Adirondack inks again.......

 

 

 

I knew I would be using quite a lot of water for the background so I taped a piece of watercolour card to the larger of the two blending mats with a heavy duty masking tape - watercolour card/paper will buckle when wet, so the usual stencil tape wouldn't be strong enough to hold the card flat......

 

 

 

 

I swiped plenty of ink onto my craft sheet, making sure to keep the colours separate. I used Sunset Orange, Raspberry & Pool, from the Adirondack Brights collection........

 

 

 

I liberally spritzed the watercolour card with water & also used a wet, tapered paintbrush to apply the inks.........

 

 

 

I added more water & tilted the card this way & that to get the inks to run, until I was happy, then set the card aside to dry..........

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to add white to the card, but couldn't use acrylic paint as it would absorb the colours from the inks & gesso would have been too white & too solid, so instead I used the Versacolor white ink pad & applied it through the Imagination Crafts Bubble stencil.............. 

 

 

 

 

 I dried the ink with my heat tool, then put the stencil down again so that I could overlap some of the bubbles............

 

 

 

 

I stamped the Woodware Clear Magic 'Georgina' flower with embossing ink onto

Anna Marie Designs black card, heat set it with WOW Bright White embossing powder, cut it out & used a craft knife to cut out the inner sections of the petals........

 

 

 

I attached the flower to the card with a Hobby House brad & pinched the petals slightly to give the flower a little dimension..........

 

 

 

I stamped the sentiment with Stazon black ink & the Alphabet Typed clear stamp set from Hobby Art, removed the white edges from the watercolour card, backed it with a piece of blue core'dinations card & then onto a 6x6 white card blank............

 

 

 

                                                                 

 

I had some ink left over & I will be back tomorrow to show you the cards I made with it. Until then, happy crafting.

 

Kirsten