Making a few cards today and still playing a few old techniques that are intriguing me at present...these are very often the ones that I can't quite "get"...one's I need to practice.
I can get a bit like that. Sometimes I want to play with a process like a child with a new toy until I have exhausted my interest and put it away, sometimes never to see or bother with it again.
But one of the lovely benefits of You Tube I have found only recently, is that crafters , and these are often new ones to my channel, can ask questions or make comments about a process or technique recorded in a video uploaded in the past and I find myself thinking about the process, my interest is piqued all over again...which is nice because one looks at things differently after a passage of time and maybe does things differently.
These cards are mainly about the DI and DO backgrounds...I finally had a light bulb moment and stopped adding so much water spray over the squidge of ink on my work surface...this has allowed me to achieve a more speckled, blotchy texture, rather than the "washy" background I seemed to always achieve previously.
I can get a bit like that. Sometimes I want to play with a process like a child with a new toy until I have exhausted my interest and put it away, sometimes never to see or bother with it again.
But one of the lovely benefits of You Tube I have found only recently, is that crafters , and these are often new ones to my channel, can ask questions or make comments about a process or technique recorded in a video uploaded in the past and I find myself thinking about the process, my interest is piqued all over again...which is nice because one looks at things differently after a passage of time and maybe does things differently.
These cards are mainly about the DI and DO backgrounds...I finally had a light bulb moment and stopped adding so much water spray over the squidge of ink on my work surface...this has allowed me to achieve a more speckled, blotchy texture, rather than the "washy" background I seemed to always achieve previously.
For this card I used both Distress Inks and Distress Oxides, I only have two of these so far but love the effect this ink can produce...
Detail...
A busy, colourful water coloured floral card, again with a DI background although this one was not as nice an outcome as the first. It has a green foil mat and a cream card base...
I found a coffee stained heart embellished envelope in my stash and made the card base to fit this, as I thought the card and envie together made a pretty, if rustic, card suitable for an engagement, even a wedding, something celebratory anyway.
Details...
Finally, my third card for the day, no background, just utilising treasures from my stash...printed digital paper remnants, hand made beads and a heat embossed vellum sentiment die cut panel...
This card uses a scrap of the lovely "Summer Prelude" , a digital pack from Ephemera's Vintage Garden...I have used the various componants of this beautiful digital in so many ways, and it remains a great favourite...I don't often add beads or even threads to a card, but I do like the interest these contribute to a very plain card.
I made the envie in a paper remnant from the same set...
I like the dangle hanging from the envie once the card is placed inside, obviously this makes the card suitable only for hand delivery, or it could be placed inside a PO mailing envelope or similar, to be sent through the mail service...
Well, that's about it for today, I have had fun mostly in my craft room today, although there is a pot of pumpkin soup cooling and waiting for attention in the kitchen, I have better go and deal with it or there will be no supper tonight. We will eat it with the remains of the pumpkin loaf I made yesterday, but tonight we will be having it toasted instead, due to the cooler weather.
Bye now,
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Bye now,
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