Welcome to the friends of Unity blog hop, and Happy Happy World Cardmaking day! What a great way to celebrate today by getting out some of your beloved supplies and create. Today I will be making this card LIVE, on the Unity Stamp Co. Facebook page at 4:00p Eastern. I hope you'll join me! I will be making two cards. I'd love to see you there! Now, lets get to it! This month we have A technique driven hop. I hope some of these inspire you to get out some supplies and play!
Below is the Schedule for Unity's live today, hope you can stop in and visit!
Today I am using a stencil and paste, to show you how to make a fun background for you image.
This is super easy, take two ink pads and smoosh out some ink, go ahead and mix them with texture paste. I keep the two colors separate, So that you get some swirls and the colors will mix some and that is fine.
After you mix the two colors go ahead and run them over the stencil using a pallet knife, The colors will mix some and that is fine, you can mix them or add them both randomly I do a little of both.
When your done, your gonna have great color and texture, set that aside to dry as you finish the other elements of your card. This took about 20 min to dry in 70 degree weather. Thicker takes longer but it's not to bad, by the time your done with it all its usually dry.
That is all their is to it, It does not get much easier than that. I will say don't freak if a little paste gets under the stencil it's no big deal, I also like to take the same ink and splatter some to break those little smoosh marks up, Go ahead and color you image, add glitter to your bats and assemble. Easy Peasy right?
So, just fyi you can use distress ink with one color and oxide for the other to give a darker lighter look, you can also use sprays. This is a great way to add texture and color to a background, I really hope if you've not done this before you give it a try, and if you have not done it in a while play around with it.
That's all I have for you today. Go ahead and hop along and be sure to share what you create on the show and tell board.
If you need to start the hop from the beginning go visit Crystal here!
Next on the hop is Rachel you can visit her HERE!
Supply List, Stencil is Simple Stories, Bats are Tim Holtz sizzix covered in Tim Holtz black glitter, Distress oxide Ink, Bristol smooth paper, Ranger Texture paste, Stamp Image is COUNT, from Unity Stamp Co. Simply colored with Copic Markers. Sentiment is Simon Says Stamp.
Thank you for Visiting me today,
Dawn Bryson
