I love how this background turned out, but believe me when I say it was the colour of an ugly raw prawn (I think they are called shrimp in some countries).
You know that speckly, semi-translucent, greyish pinky very unattractive raw prawn colour, then you cook them and all those bad thoughts go away. Well this is what happened here.
I tried to do a brusho background, it looked like the raw prawn I just described, so I waited for it to dry and then attacked it with salty ocean distress ink.
Using the Smack & Squirt technique - smack distress ink pad onto al foil, squirt on a lot of water, then using a foam blending tool, scrub it over the cardstock, or in this case, scrub it over the bad brusho work.
I purposely left some of the pinky colour on the left hand side and bottom edge. Before stamping the girl, I blotted a bit of colour off using a baby wipe, this gives a lovely halo effect. Hit it with the heat gun before stamping.
Stamp images using MISTI - I seriously cannot live without this tool. Doodle the sticks with micron pen and dots with a white sharpie paint pen.
The tree trunk is not very big, flip it upside down and stamp a bit more of the straight bit. To highlight the centre of the card a bit more, sponge on some walnut stain distress ink randomly on the card and around the outer edges.
Thank you for looking. Have a great week.
Date: Sunday, June 21, 2015 GMT Views: 6465
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Tue, Nov 10, 2015 @ 6:15 AM
LOL, I don't believe it! I hadn't even checked the gallery - busy day yesterday - and I went for the latch card too, since Judy posted it while we were camping in France.
I just LOVE your beautiful background - leaving the pink corner is perfect. And that tree looks amazing every time! I love the skeleton Chinese Lantern your girl is carrying. We had them in the garden (I still do, only I don't think I have any lanterns this year :-() as children, and I loved equally the orange lanterns and the bare skeletons.