Hello there! Thank you for joining me today for a short tutorial on how to use our Blending Brushes and layering up additional color onto your card stock. Only the sentiment is stamped on this beautiful mixed media project. The color possibilities are endless!
Today’s card uses Color & Contour for the sentiment, blended Polished Pink and Calypso Coral ink with embossing, ink swiping, ink splattering, and Gilded Leafing.
As always, your shopping Supplies and Instructions, with measurements, are below.
I started out with an A2 Basic White Thick card base. I cut a piece of Basic White Regular to 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 and placed it on top of my Floral Grid Sheet. I loaded up one Blending Brush with Polished Pink and another with Calypso Coral.
I have one Blending Brush for each color family. I clean the brushes after each use with a quick lukewarm rinse in the sink. The brushes dry within a few hours and are just as full and soft as when they were new. Our Blending Brushes are the best on the market. I know. I’ve tried a lot of them.
Back to our color panel, I started inking up the Calypso Coral first in an ombre manner, with the darkest color at the bottom and lighter towards the top, blending in a ‘C’, that you can see when you look at the panel. I repeated the process at the opposite end of the CS for the Polished Pink. I left a little bit of white space between the two colors. I ran the panel through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine in the Greenery EF at both ends.
Now, this is where the messy fun comes in and make sure you protect your work surface with one of our Grid Sheets. You’re going to appreciate this as the ink splatters and as above, they’re great to use for ink blending.
First, I splattered Wink of Stella all over the color panel. I then used the caps of Polished Pink and Calypso Coral Stampin’ Write Markers to splatter on color, respectively. I added several drops of Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive about the color panel and pressed on Gilded Leafing. I let the glue dry and then used a dry paint brush to get rid of the excess directly over my garbage. You do have to use the brush a little aggressively to remove the excess. I also can’t stress enough to you to make sure to use a Swiffer Cloth on your hands and wrists, desktop, anywhere the leafing will be in contact with. The less static, the better.
After all of the above was complete and dry, I then cut the color panel at 3-1/4″ and adhered the 1″ color panel to the inside with Seal, as shown below.
I stamped the sentiment from Color & Contour onto a piece of Basic White Regular with Memento Tuxedo Black and die-cut this out with a 2-3/8″ die from Layering Circles.
I laid out and arranged the sentiment circle on top of the color panel to see where I wanted to tie the Basic White Baker’s Twine. I wrapped that around the color panel twice, adhering the ends to the back with Scotch tape.
I added Stampin’ Dimensionals to the back of the color panel and adhered this to the card base. Stampin’ Dimensionals were also added to the back of the sentiment circle and adhered.
I cut another length of Basic White Baker’s Twine and tied a cheater’s bow next to the sentiment.
And below is how I created the inside. I used the 1″ strip of the color panel that I cut off at the very beginning.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thank you for stopping by for a visit and have a great day!
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- Card base: A2 top-folding 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, Basic White Thick.
- Color panel: 4-1/4 x 5-1/2, then cut at 3-1/4″.
- Sentiment circle: 2-3/8″ die at widest, Layering Circles.