Hi there, I hope your week is going well!
Today’s card features the Center Cut Kaleidoscope background stamp and the Miss You die, both from Simon Says Stamp. I also used, for the first time, Nuvo Shimmer Powder which has completely enchanted me!
To start, I stamped the background stamp in VersaMark ink onto a just-larger-than A2-sized piece of Canson XL watercolor paper. I poured Hero Arts white embossing over top and hit it with a heat tool.
I taped the background down to a flat surface using painter’s tape and then liberally spritzed it with clean clear water. I used a flat wash brush to spread the water evenly and then started tapping Nuvo Shimmer Powder over it. The color I used is Atlantis Burst which has several shades of green and aquas as well as a beautiful blue-green shimmer. When adding the shimmer powder, a little goes a very long way and you truly just want to barely tap the side of the bottle to get a little puff of powder to fall onto your paper. Once the powder hits the wet paper, the color starts moving. When it stalled, I helped it along by adding additional spritzes of water and, occasionally, used a Pentel Aquash water brush for more targeted adjustments. My goal was complete coverage, but I wanted to maintain some variation so I tapped more powder in several areas to intensify the color.
I set the panel aside to dry for a few minutes before I got impatient and helped it along with a heat gun. When it was dry, I used a very slightly damp paper towel to gently buff the heat embossing to restore it to white since some of the color from the powder had settled on top. Then, to flatten the panel which had warped a bit, I sandwiched it between two pieces of copy paper and ran it through my Big Shot machine.
I die cut the sentiment from a piece of scrap Recollections 110# cardstock. Before I separated the sentiment from the negative cut, I colored it using a Copic marker (BG49). I find it easier to color sentiment die cuts when they’re still sitting in their negative cut. I used even strokes to go over the entire sentiment area, as if I was just coloring a rectangle, which results in a more even layer of color than if I were to follow along the lines of the sentiment.
I also die cut a stitched circle, out of the same white paper, using the fourth largest die from the My Favorite Things Inside and Out Stitched Circle die set. Then I adhered the sentiment.
To finish up, I trimmed the background to 4″ by 5.25″ and adhered it to an A2-sized card base. Then I adhered the stitched circle with sentiment to the center and that completed today’s card.
Thanks for visiting and happy crafting!
I started with Neenah Solar White 80# Classic Crest cardstock and stamped the L-shaped strips (the stamp has three stripes) four times in Altenew inks (Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart, and Purple Wine).
For the background, I created a pink splatter on an A2-sized piece of Neenah Solar White. I started by smooshing my Picked Rasberry Distress Ink mini ink pad onto an acrylic block, and then I used a Pentel Aquash Water Brush to mix a bit of water into the ink and to pick up some of the color. Holding the brush over the paper, as if I was turning a key in a lock, I used a finger of my other hand to tap the middle brush and splatter ink onto the card front. By moving closer or farther from the paper, I was able to create splatter drops of varying sizes.
