It's Teapot Tueday and this week our cards are going to Buckeye, Arizona. All the deatils for our Teaparty can be found here .
We are back from our holiday, had a brilliant time, but on the downside my mojo decided to stay up north! When I get stuck for inspiration, I choose a couple of cards from my gallery and sort of blend them together. This is the result.
Three distress inks have been used on the background - wild honey, seedless preserves and walnut stain. I smacked the wild honey ink onto a sheet of aluminium foil, squirted on a lot of water and applied the inky water to the cardstock using a foam blending tool.
The process was repeated using Seedless Preserves distress ink. When the yellow and purple inks were almost dry, I used walnut stain distress ink to stamp on the the background foliage.
When everything was completely dry, I decided what area to leave bright, then used a walnut stain foam blending tool (no added water) on the areas I didn't want to highlight.
To create the bird on the branch, I covered a scrap of cardstock with metal roofing tape, then ran it through a die cutting machine. Copic markers were used to colour the bird and branch.
Thank you for looking and I hope you get a chance to join in and send gentle thoughts to Bob and Tracy during this difficult time.
Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019 GMT Views: 1383
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Sun, Jun 16, 2019 @ 3:32 AM
Gorgeous, Susie, Such wonderful colors and details. Amazing card. Hugz
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
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Sun, Jun 16, 2019 @ 5:11 PM
Such a beautiful card.
------------------------------ LizThe joy of the LORD is my strength.Right Brain Madness --My blogProud member of the redDivasKSS certified multi-step stamperFan Club member since 2004
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Tue, Jun 18, 2019 @ 5:44 AM
This is absolutely gorgeous Susie! I am beyond impressed with the results you get from "smacking the ink pad down" and from roofing tape. I would love to have this piece of gorgeous artwork hanging in my house! ~Karen.
Registered: September 17, 2007 Location: Illinois Posts: 6095
Wed, Jun 19, 2019 @ 7:22 AM
Wow that background is gorgeous, thanks for sharing how you achieved that look, I may have to give that a try, I am never happy with how my backgrounds turn out, you are really getting great results with your roofing tape also!