Some days I am very grateful that Art is my outlet! Today is one of those days. 🙂 Yesterday, on the other hand was the kind of day that makes you need an outlet! Sheesh! At 2:35 am – I finally finished working so today, I promised myself I would take an hour to play. This card was created purely for the joy of Card Making.
I absolutely love the background! I’ll show you how easy it was to create! I kept the rest of the card simple because I couldn’t bear the thought of covering any of it up.
Put some Rubbing Alcohol onto a Craft Sheet. Put a drop or two of Permanent Reinkers – these were Wendy Vecchi’s Orange Blossom and Cornflower Blue and then Adirondack Mixative in Copper. Swish them a little with a spatula and swipe your Ranger Specialty Paper through.
Move the card stock around – you can even add a little more Alcohol to it to disperse the inks. When you’re satisfied, heat set it. The Heat Tool will move the inks around a little too.
You get an amazing variety of backgrounds. No two are alike! Some of these have Fern Green in them too.
I stamped one of the Art Stamps from Tim Holtz’s Classic’s #4 Stamp Set in Black Archival Ink directly over the background. I did a second generation stamp with a couple of TH’s other stamps (Tim Holtz’s Classic’s #16 and Tim Holtz’s Mini Classic’s) in the corners of the card stock.
I aged an Idea-ology Word Band with Rusty Hinge and Evergreen Bough Distress Paints and then tied it onto the card with TH Twine.
An Idea-ology Mini Corner was aged in the same manner and then attached to the corner of the background piece. The finished background was adhered to a piece of SU! Island Indigo Cardstock 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, scored and folded at 4 1/4″ using Foam Tape.
I hope you enjoyed it. 😀
Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp – Monday – “J” is for (Journey)
Simon Says Stamp – Wednesday – Anything Goes
This card is amazing on so many levels! I loved it from first glance, but then was so intrigued by the techniques you used to create that fabulous background. What a great idea and you’re right: no two are alike, yet they’re all fantastic. You showed a deft hand at creating the foreground, too, because it’s still a focal point, yet you didn’t cover up all that yumminess of your background. You have a great eye and I appreciate you sharing this technique. Thank you for the inspiration and for sharing this with us here at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog!
That background is wonderful and perfect for that great sentiment stamp. Thank you so much for sharing with us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog!!
Absolutely gorgeous card! That background is so beautiful! Great technique!!
Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!
hugs…
Melissa