Dena's Designs

Friday 23 April 2021

Morning Everyone!

I recently made this card for a friends birthday - who is also a crafter. I always find there's way more pressure on making a card when the recipient is also a cardmaker!

Thought I'd use this gorgeous image from crafty individuals.

Stamp and emboss CI-471.

I then ripped the card to the size I wanted.

Using distress inks apply some Victorian velvet to the middle section and distress the edges with tea dye. I decided the edges wasn't quite dark enough so added a little brushed corduroy.

Cut a piece of square card that will fit on a pre folded 6x6 card blank leaving a slight border around the edge. Using a brayer I then applied the ink. To enhance the pink areas I applied Victorian velvet with an applicator sponge and again distressed the edges with brushed corduroy.

Using a fan paint brush flick some specks of water over your background and dry with a piece of kitchen roll to lift the ink.

I then splattered some watered down brown brushos to the card and dried with a heat gun. Unfortunately this doesn't show up very well on the photo but it left lovely soft brown splatters on the card.

Using CI-572 bluebells stamp ink the text section and randomly stamp in areas of the card in Victorian velvet. I Chose to keep the colours very soft and muted.

Stamp the snakes head fritillary from CI-488 in black.

Colour the image, for this I used Arteza watercolour brush pens and distress inks. I often use distress inks as a watercolour by dabbing the ink on a tile or on your messy mat and apply the ink with a brush.

Stamp some grasses from CI-207 using a brown and green ink to bring in another colour on your main background and a few on the topper with the little girl.

I then stamped the wording from the woodware clear stamp set.