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Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well. The background I created on this card is the second part of my resist technique background experiments. The background on this one was created with Tim Holtz new Distress Resist Spray and here is my card …

 

A 148mm square card

Lots of lovely depth and texture

All the yummy details

I love these differences!

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Ally’s Angels Challenge #3 Stitching Faux or Real: I opted for faux

Butterfly Challenge #95 Spin the Wheel for letter P: 
Purple and Pearls were my choice

Country View Crafts Challenge Anything But Cute

Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #66 Sketch

Pixie’s Snippets Playground Challenge #320 Snippets: 
the base layer isn’t a snippet everything else was

Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge Grunge It Up

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge Make your own Background 

I am going through a very bright phsase at the moment and seem to be attracted to shades of blue and purple, whatever it is I’m enjoying it. Here’s how I created this card:

1. I created the background late at night so that I could leave the Distress resist spray to dry naturally. I used a piece of A5 card and positioned my stencil over the top. I did not stick it in position. I used the Distress resist spray and applied a layer onto the card.

2. Because there was a lot of resist spray on the stencil I took a print from the stencil then washed it with warm water and washing up liquid. I left it to air dry.

3. The next day I created washes from my Distress re-inkers in a paint palette.

4. Once the card was inked I dried it with my heat tool. I popped it underneath some dies to flatten.

5. I used snippets to die cut the stitched banner and to stamp the flowers onto. I fussy cut the flowers out then stamped the butterflies onto the stitched banner.

6. Following Kim’s sketch I dug into my snippets bag and found a piece of card that had DecoArt Crackle Paste added to it with the Harlequin stencil and I then coloured that with Luminarte H2O watercolours.

7. I inked the edges of the stamped die cut and the card using ink blending tool and foam using Peacock Feathers and Faded Jeans Distress Oxides.

8. I die cut the sentiment from snippets and coloured them with Luminarte H2O watercolours. I added ribbon and pearls to further embellish my card.

The sketch made creating this card so much easier and it’s always fun to play along like this as I usually end up finding something that I really love that I will use in future too. Thank you Kim! Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp &/ Stencil:

Paperbabe Stamps: Pieridae stamp set

Prima Marketing Finnabair Elementals 6.5” x 10.25”: Harlequin stencil

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus die cutting machine

Tutti Designs: Stitched Nesting Banners

My Favourite Things Stamps Die-Namics: Hello There die set

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; heat tool; paintbrushes; water pot; paint palette

Supplies

Card Paper:

Sheena Douglass white stamping card

300 gsm card/Craft UK 150mm square card

Snippets: Sheena Douglass white stamping card

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Distress IPs: Peacock Feathers

Distress Oxide IPs: Wilted Violet; Faded Jeans

Distress Re-inkers: Peacock Feathers; Picked Raspberry

Luminarte H2O watercolours

Embellishments:

Wild Orchid Crafts: pearls

Ribbon from my stash

Adhesives/Mediums:

Distress Resist Spray

DecoArt Crackle Paste

Collall all purpose glue

Double sided tape

Fun foam