The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge for March 7, 2016 is to create a "one of a kind backgrounds! From Stencilling to Gelli Printing, Embossing and Stamping,..."
Recently, on a blog hop I was happing through, I saw a background technique I've been dying to try but I did' have the stamps 9and they were sold out!). It was a series of stripes, some overlapping... I figures that, with a little bit of fiddling and some painter's tape, I could come up with an overlapping-stripe background of my own. SO, filching my husband's roll of Scotch Brand painter's tape; a scrap of Bazzill white yardstick, and a selection of Distress Inks in shades of green and blue, I set about laying out a pattern of stripes. I applied the inks with a blending tool and blending foam pads.
Recently, on a blog hop I was happing through, I saw a background technique I've been dying to try but I did' have the stamps 9and they were sold out!). It was a series of stripes, some overlapping... I figures that, with a little bit of fiddling and some painter's tape, I could come up with an overlapping-stripe background of my own. SO, filching my husband's roll of Scotch Brand painter's tape; a scrap of Bazzill white yardstick, and a selection of Distress Inks in shades of green and blue, I set about laying out a pattern of stripes. I applied the inks with a blending tool and blending foam pads.
My next step was to trim the piece to size 9saving the remains of the striped scrap for another day) and add some interest with a gold marking pen and a fine-line black pen:
I selected some card stock which coordinated with the strips:
Trimmed it as well and layered to make a card base:
Finally, I added some Archival "Jet Black" "Stars"::
and layered the card base on a prefolded ivory card.
My next step was to create a focal point that wouldn't be outshone by mu background. Sticking with the same color palette, but drifting towards the blue and purple end of the color wheel, I used Ken Olive's Color Burst powders to create a background on Ranger Multi Medium Paper:
My next step was to create a focal point that wouldn't be outshone by mu background. Sticking with the same color palette, but drifting towards the blue and purple end of the color wheel, I used Ken Olive's Color Burst powders to create a background on Ranger Multi Medium Paper:
I stamped one butterfly with Versamark and heat embossed it with detail gold embossing powder; then cut that butterfly and a second (from the back so it would be the reverse of the gold butterfly) from the card:
I layered the two with Multi Medium Matte and some paperclips to hold them until they dried. Once dry, I overstepped the gold side with Archival "Jet Black" and edged the card with a gold marking pen to downplay the white edges.In this way, the back of the butterfly wot be stark white but will reflect the colors on the front:
After a little trimming and scoring, I adhered the butterfly to the card from and die cut a sentiment form the same stamp set:
side view of card showing the back of the butterfly
Products used in making this card were:
- Stamps (and dies): Framelits "Limitations" (660189)
- Inks: Distress Inks "Bundled Sage", "Peeled Paint", "Twisted Citron", "Lucky Clover", "Cracked Pistachio", "Fossilized Amber", "Blueprint Sketch",and " Mermaid Lagoon"; Ken Oliver Color Burst "Ultramarine" and "Violet";Archival "Jet Black"; Marvy Uchida "Liquid Gold"; Pigma Micron 05 "Black"; Versamark
- Embossing Powders: Up Town "Detail Gold"
- Papers: Bazill white, line green and grey green card stock; Ranger Multi Media Paper;
- Adhesives: Multi Medium Matte; TOmbow Mono Adhesive; Viva Las Vegas "Miracle Tape"; Scoth Brand painter's tape (further "detached" by sticking it to m jeans leg before applying to the paper)
- Other tools: 24" acrylic ruler
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