Thursday, November 22, 2012

Connie-Snowy Mailbox


Here is a card I have made using a technique called
"Distressed Water Backgrounds"
This is courtesy of Tim Holtz and his Distress Inks of course.
Also includes a lovely stamp by 
Teresa Sherman titled "Snowy Mailbox"
exclusively for 

Below I have included photos of the steps
taken with this card for you:

First swipe Distress inks across a nonstick craft pad
keeping them a bit apart so not to contaminate them:

Then spritz water on them until small beads appear like this:
 Blot paper on this and heat until dry.


This is what it looks like the first time swiped and dried:



Swipe paper across wet inks a second time and dry with heat tool:


You can swipe and heat several times until you get the depth of color desired.
Then overstamp your image and finish.

10 comments:

  1. How creative Connie - always mean to try these different techniques but as usually against the wire and don't have the time to experiment. Great to see how the technique works.
    Best wishes, Sharon

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  2. Connie, your background techinque is gorgeous , looks wonderfulw ith this stamp. Beautiful card

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  3. Wonderful technique, Connie. This background looks just brilliant to this image.
    Hugs, Karina

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  4. Oooh gorgeous background - I love Tim's techniques, playing with distress inks is such fun. :)

    It works really well behind this this pretty image too.

    Ali

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  5. fantastic technique! love the results, beautiful!

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  6. Connie the Inking Queen!!!! Man, you are so good on this one. I just got from Michael's craft Pad, so i can practice more to get my self dirty lol. isn't fun to get dirty??? I think so, if it's crafty dirt. Love your card.
    Hugs Nat

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  7. I really love the technique, gonna have to try it. Thank you for sharing.

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  8. Great work! Thanks for sharing a new technique with us today. WOnderful.

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  9. So cool, Connie! Thank you so much for sharing!! ;)

    Hugs, Randi

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