So I had an idea … it was just something I wanted to try with a digital stamp (Alex Siberia) and I ended up making three cards all at once but only sharing this one today … the other two I will blog tomorrow.
Ok here is the final card…
Super autumnal and a bit grungy and very much influenced by the style of some of Prarie Paper and Inks as I was binge watching her videos but not exactly a case of any of hers specifically…. More it was lots of inks and splatters including some shimmer!
Anyway the idea was to colour around the image before I fussy cut it out to give something other than a white edge. I printed the image four times in total (twice on each sheet of A4) and I then added inks using blending tools … turns out that this moves the printing ink so it doesn’t lend itself to lighter colours but this orange and green colour scheme it is fine.
I actually coloured the flowers on a separate image and fussy cut them out to layer onto the background and the leaves.
Then I added a smoky slate stampin up border/background. This took on the colour underneath from the blending but made it darker than the colour on the images and I think it worked well.
Next I created the background from a piece of mop up using similar colours of inks. I then splattered both the image and the background with black gesso, white gesso and the shimmer rose gold ink.
The background I then embossed it with the fern embossing folder to give it texture. I added more inking to pick up the texture and darken the edge a little.
I mounted it onto Kraft that I had inked in brown at the edge to make it darker and richer in colour.
I then heat embossed the sentiment onto Kraft with white and again added brown ink to the piece to darken it a little and make it work with the other colours.
I found this glitzy ribbon in the stash and folded it beneath the sentiment and added some strips of scrap card underneath to raise the sentiment and then added it onto the panel.
Popped it onto a 5×7 card blank and called it done.
Love how this came out … want to see a completely different take on this idea of colouring round the edge, pop back to my blog again tomorrow to see that one too.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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