Love, Paper, Etc.: October 2021

Happy fall everyone! My winner from the Friends of Unity Color Challenge on the Unity Show and Tell Facebook Page is Sheila Hurst. Congratulations Sheila...please pm me so I can get several new Unity stamp sets to you. We are sharing techniques for this month's hop. I decided to go with ink smooshing since I have never really tried this technique. I watched several videos and combined elements from all of them. Here is our cool cue:

Here is my ink smooshed card:

Another technique I used on this card is embossing. As I mentioned before, I watched several videos on ink smooshing. From one video, the you tuber showed how to move the ink around with your fingers. Another video was a basic introduction to ink smooshing. And the other video showed an embossing resist technique with ink smooshing. I did not do an emboss resist, but I'll come back to that later.

I needed a nice sized surface to spray my ink onto. So I grabbed my Big Shot Pro cutting pad and sprayed two Prima inks (pressed petal and tea stain) on it. I placed water color paper onto the ink and used a finger to spread the ink around. I am really going to have to work on my technique here. I am not totally happy with my first ink smooshing attempt, but I'm going to roll with it. Ha! I took an old sock and wiped away excess ink. Once the paper was dry, I stamped The Grace of Presence background stamp using Tim Holtz embossing ink. I added white embossing powder and used my heat gun. It is really hard to see the words from this stamp, but if you look closely on a few pictures you will see it. I set this piece aside and went on to stamp the beautiful girl on heavy weight white card stock. She is from the September 2019 Kit of the Month, All Kinds of Holiday Love. I cut her out. Next I colored her scarf with Derwent metallic colored pencils and used Gamsol to blend. Whoa, I guess that's another technique I snuck in. Her hair and skin were colored with Prima water color pencils. I set her aside. Then the search began for the perfect sentiment. I don't know if this sentiment is 'perfect' for this card, but I love this encouraging sentiment. It is from the Start Anew set created in collaboration with Graciellie Design. Finally I found a die cut with a cool geometric design. I glued it to purple card stock. I almost forgot, washi tape was added to the ink smooshed piece. A Gina Marie die was used to cut the inked panel. Foam adhesive was used on the inked panel and the girl.

I really wanted to make a second card, but my tank ran out of gas. I'm sure you can relate. Here is the blog hop order once again, just in case:

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Until next time,