Easy Ink Blending Techniques

Easy Ink Blending Techniques
 Hello!  Welcome to my project submission for the class Easy Blending Techniques, taught by the fabulous Amy Lee.  This class was so much fun and I learned different ways to include ink blending on my cards.  I must say, my favorite was the Faux Watercoloring!  
So much fun!  


The products I used for this card are as follows:  Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock;  floral stamps from Altenew Build a Flower Bella Hybrid Tea Rose stamp set; the sentiment was from the Altenew Build a Flower Coneflower stamp set; inks used were Altenew Crisp Dye Ink in Sweet Leaf, Peach Perfect, Cotton Candy and Mango Smoothie; Distress Inks in Lucky Clover, Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin and Spiced Marmalade.  Okay, let's get on to the project!

 

I started out by stamping my images with VersaMark embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  Once cooled, I ink blended using Altenew Crisp Dye inks over the embossed images.  I then spritzed my watercolor cardstock with water to prepare to take my card to the next level.


  To help my stamped images take on that watercolored look, I smooshed (love the word and the technique!) each ink color onto my craft mat and gave a little spritz of water to use as my watercolors.  How fun, right!  You don't need to go out and buy watercolors for this technique, use you fabulous Altenew inks!  Using my #2 round watercolor brush, I loosely painted the inks over my images to give a loosey goosey flowy look!  

I let that dry and was ready to step it up a little further with using Distress Inks.  I did the same smooshing technique of the ink cubes onto my craft mat.  I chose colors that were a shade or 2 darker than my original inks.  I then used my watercolor brush and loosely painted on the distress inks.  This really added some more interest to my images. 

 Once dried, I splattered some of the leftover ink on my panel, added some bling and the sentiment.  I really didn't like the panel going on a white card base and I remember Amy showing us how we can basically make our own color cardstock using our inks.  So I blended Mango Smoothie around the edges of my white card base to make it look like my card base was a beautiful coordinating yellow cardstock.  Fun trick, right?!


Don't you just love this technique?  Give it a try!  
I know you will just love it and if not, remember, 
it's just paper!

Lori



 

Comments

  1. BonnieSeptember 12, 2021 at 7:44 AM

    Great job! Beautiful card too! I need to get busy on my own blog. Ha! -Bonnie

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    1. LoriSeptember 12, 2021 at 8:17 AM

      Thank you so much Bonnie! I greatly appreciate your kind words! I know, that is the hard part! I love making the cards...that's the easy part!! Good luck, you can do it!! : )

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  2. PeriSeptember 12, 2021 at 11:41 AM

    Brilliant start, Lori. A beautiful card and great blogpost. X

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    1. LoriSeptember 12, 2021 at 2:54 PM

      Peri, thank you so much! That really means a lot! Love your cards!! : ) x

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  3. Erum TasneemSeptember 22, 2021 at 2:35 PM

    This is a beautiful card, Lori! Gorgeous colors too!
    Thank you for submitting your work to the AECP assignment gallery.

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