Hello, Hugs & Thanks

Hello! Sorry I've been a little absent from the blog lately... we're currently renovating our kitchen and we have been working non-stop putting up drywall, mudding, painting and this past weekend we finally installed the new cupboards! Yay! 

I've had a lot less time lately to get crafty but I did create a few backgrounds last week and really wanted to turn them into cards... so I did! ;)

These cards all have distress inks on them along with a stenciled design using the Ranger Transparent Matte Texture Paste. This stuff is awesome!!! It goes on like regular texture paste, but when it dries, it's completely matte. Photos just don't show the amazing texture, dimension and feel that this paste creates... I am obsessed with it!

I started off by creating some backgrounds with various colours of distress inks (Abandoned Coral, Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio, Mermaid Lagoon and Blueprint Sketch) by using my ink blending tools and blending the colours together. 

Once I was happy with my backgrounds, I layered a stencil over top and added the Ranger Matte Texture paste on all of them. 

The wave stencil was perfect for the blue coloured background and it's probably my favourite out of the three backgrounds. This paste kinda reminds me of the look and feel ofsunda leather... it's just so fun! 

I cut the wave background apart and stamped a sentiment in the opening and then I also adhered the Thanks die directly onto the background. I wanted to keep the cards pretty simple to let the awesome backgrounds stand out.

I repeated the same process for the rest of the cards and I just changed the design and used different die cut sentiments. The green background it super bright and fun... I love the colour with the fun dot pattern on top.

To add a little more detail to the cards, I also added some black diecut hearts around the sentiments and a black strip above the green design to make the colour pop off the white card base.

For the last card, I used the Rhapsody stencil from Memory Box over the Abandoned Coral background and ended up with a gorgeous design that I love. I decided to just use a diecut sentiment with this one and added a few of the diecut hearts.

I love how you can combine and few of the same products and create such different, unique backgrounds. This texture paste is a definite new favourite for me! ;)

Winner

I also have to announce the winner of the September Simon Says Stamp card kit. 

Congrats to Sue Welper! Sue, please email me your contact info and I'll get your kit to you! 

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Hello Card | Paint Resist

Hey everyone! Today I have a card to share that revisits an older technique that I haven't done in awhile... resist with paint! I forgot how much I love stamping with paint. It's a little messier than inks and embossing powders but it is so worth it... the look and texture that you get with paint is so different and fun! ;)

For this card I used the Hero Arts Wave background stamp and stamped a white cardstock panel with Picket Fence Distress paint. The great thing about the Distress paints is that they come in a dauber bottle so it's super easy to add the paint onto your stamp.

 

Just make sure you wash it as soon as your done with water or it will dry on your stamp and be really hard to get off. Ask me how I know that lol!! ;)

Once the paint is fully dry the fun begins! I used Blueprint Sketch Distress ink on my background (a gorgeous royal blue colour) with an ink blending tool and covered the whole background with ink.

 

Since the paint is dry, it will resist the ink letting the stamped image show through. And paint has a really fun texture so it looks awesome with a background like this since it really emphasizes the waves.

To finish the card I added a die cut cloud and adhered it on the bottom right of the stamped panel. I didn't want to completely cover the background so I added the sentiment and some glitter die cut hearts to the cloud area and left the rest of it simple. I covered the die cut hello in the same Blueprint Sketch Distress ink and coated it with Glossy Accents to make it shiny.

 

I definitely encourage you to give resist with paint a try... it's so fun and you get great results!

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