Live the life

Live the life

I love this technique that I used in the blue card a few posts ago. Here is another go using the same techniques of inks and water and again inspired by a feature in the October Craft Stamper Magazine  by Kate Crane. Firstly this time I used Tim Holtz ditress inks Barn Door, Fire Brick.  The bottom and top edges were stamped with an lacy floral stamp by Tim Holtz  in archive black ink. I stamped the main image "Sweet Pea" stamp onto the card and another copy of the image onto another piece of card and fussy cut the main piece out. I coloured the image using Mungyo Water colour crayons and by painting the colour onto the desired areas.  I used a template and sqwished modelling paste through the wire mesh template and them smudged a bit of Tim Holtz Picket fence colour on the top to make bits of it stand out.The main image was placed over the stamped image using puff dots to raise it up. The little flowers were coloured by dabbing Distress Inks "Wild Honey" and "Scattered Straw" onto a craft sheet and spraying this with water , then dipping the flowers into the colour a few times depending on the intensity you want.