I love how the Sheer Shimmer Spritz adds a copper shimmer to the ink on the background.
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Interested in the products I used? Products that are still available are linked to multiple shops below, for your convenience.
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I design for several companies because I genuinely love their products! Anything I recommend on my blog is something that I genuinely love and regularly use. I buy most of my own supplies. However, I do receive some free products to work with, and I sometimes make money for the projects I make. I DO NOT get paid for product reviews, I give my honest opinion about the products I use, and I will never recommend a product that I do not like or would not use.
Interested in the products I used? Products that are still available are linked to multiple shops below, for your convenience.
Lists may contain affiliate links where possible at no cost to you, what so ever.Affiliate and product disclosure can be found here.
I design for several companies because I genuinely love their products! Anything I recommend on my blog is something that I genuinely love and regularly use. I buy most of my own supplies. However, I do receive some free products to work with, and I sometimes make money for the projects I make. I DO NOT get paid for product reviews, I give my honest opinion about the products I use, and I will never recommend a product that I do not like or would not use.
Hi everyone! It's Lindsay here, from Crafting While Caffeinated Blog and YouTube Channel, and I am so excited to share today's video tutorial with you all. Ink blending is one of those techniques that I go to time and time again. It can be used for blending a background on a scene, adding shadow, creating a fun background with or without a stencil, and so much more! Today, I am sharing how I used ink blending to create a night sky on the background of my card, but I'm giving it a little twist by adding glitter for a starry night effect! Be sure to watch the full video tutorial below for all the details!
The video above contains products that were sent to me free of charge for design purposes. I only ever design for companies I can stand behind 100%! This post also contains affiliate links.
There are so many different ways to create a night sky on your handmade cards. By far my favorite and the quickest for me is ink blending. Any ink that you can blend with will work, but I personally love Distress Inks for this technique because of one specific property, their reaction with water! And because I use them so often, I have my favorites that I always reach for. The colors I like to use for ink blending a night sky are Chipped Sapphire, Seedless Preserves, and Black Soot. I also like to use my mini ink blending tool since I lay the color on pretty thick!
After blending the sky I sprinkled the panel with plain water and let it sit on the ink for a few seconds, then I blotted it up. This creating white spots that are all different sizes and create a starry effect without pulling out the acrylic paint. But I didn't stop there with this background. I also sprinkled the panel with Sheer Shimmer Spritz in Sparkle. This is a clear liquid that is PACKED with sparkle and adds a true starry night effect!
To finish this panel I used one of my favorite types of stamps from Crackerox & Suzy Stamps, a silhouette. Silhouette stamps are so versatile and are perfect for adding over your ink blended backgrounds! To get specific, I used the "City Scape" silhouette stamps and stamped it with Versafine Clair in Nocturne.
Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps also had the PERFECT sentiment for this card (which was the inspiration behind the entire design). I used the "Life Knocks You Down" sentiment and added it to the panel on a flag banner. I absolutely love the way this sentiment stamps pulled together the entire card!
I hope you all enjoyed a look at this video tutorial and how easy it is to use ink blending to create a quick night sky background! If you are interested in any of the supplies I used, you can find them all listed and linked down below. Until next time, happy crafting!!
Hi everyone! It's Lindsay here from Crafting While Caffeinated Blog and YouTube Channel. I am so excited to share today's video tutorial with you all!! It's all about masking with freezer paper! It's super easy and you only need a few supplies. Watch the video tutorial below for all the details!
The video above contains products that were sent to me free of charge for design purposes. I only ever design for companies I can stand behind 100%! This post also contain affiliate links.
To start, let me say that you need two things for this technique. You need freezer paper, not parchment, not wax, FREEZER PAPER. You also need an iron (or a flat iron).
The first thing you need to do is cut your freezer paper into the shape you want to mask. I actually die cut mine and it worked out really well. To die cut I used my big shot and oval die cuts. Then, I ironed the "masks" onto watercolor paper. You can use whatever cardstock is suitable for your project. For one project I used the oval and on the other I used the area around the oval.
Be sure when you iron the mask you have the shiny plastic side towards the paper and you are ironing on the paper like side. You don't want to do this backward!
Once your masks are in place you're good to go! I ink blended around the oval and then sprinkled it with a bit of water for a bleaching effect. On the second project, I watercolored inside the oval die cut. Then, you just peel the mask off, carefully. Once you get it started it does peel right up! The mask held up so well and left such crisp lines!
Inside the masked oval on the ink blended background, I stamped the "Thanks Big" stamp from Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps. I absolutely love this stamp. It is the perfect size to be the focal point on your card!
On my second card, I used a few stamps from Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps. The silhouette image is called "Moonlight Fairy" and the sentiment is "Look for Rainbows". I love the silhouette stamps from Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps. They are such a great addition to so many backgrounds where I want to use fun techniques!
Before I go here's a look at the categories that are on sale this month! So if you have any on your wishlist from these categories, be sure to scoop them up while you can!!
And if you are interested in any of the supplies I used today, you can find them all linked below! Until next time, happy crafting!!
