The August challenge from Make the Day Special is a sketch challenge. I went back and forth with this but finally decided I would flip the sketch a little and created this card: How I made the card: The background is distress ink seedless preserves with perfect pearls mist spritzed all over. I heat embossed… Continue reading August Challenge
I am loving my distress inks at the moment and seem to reach for them first when making a new card. I made this card to hopefully brighten the day of the person who receives it. I created a rainbow of colours with distress inks, with butterflies dancing across it. I really love this sentiment,… Continue reading Sending Hugs
As I hadn't tried the distress ink blending tools since I got them last month, I decided to have a go. I found the blending tool quite difficult to work with but I think that was more because I wasn't really sure what I was doing! Once I'd put all the colours down on watercolour… Continue reading MFT Birthday Centerpieces Die-namic
I'm really enjoying my new distress inks. I saw a technique on Youtube, demonstrated by Kristina Werner, which she called 'ink smooshing'. She uses an acrylic sheet to add distress ink and move it around on the paper. I liked the effect so thought I'd have a go. After creating a background, I wanted to… Continue reading Dandelion Dreams
I got some mini distress inks and ink blenders recently. I've never tried distress inks before but love some of the techniques I've seen demonstrated on cards and in videos. They seem really versatile and the range of colours available is great. When they first arrived, I got them all out and played around with… Continue reading Make a Wish
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