Inky Backgrounds

Welcome back! Shari here again back with more cards for the SSS Kids Summer Vacation Challenge!

For my first card, I did some “swinking”, the ink swiping technique. The name was accidentally created by the amazing Laurel Beard. I love her videos and she is so funny and creative so when I watched her video, I knew I needed to try this idea. I used three colours of inks (one of which is shimmery) and applied them to a stamp block. I then spritzed it with water and pressed it to my card panel. I loved it so much that I did another one that I will post in a blog post tomorrow (if I don’t pro’craft’inate haha I’m hilarious). I stamped a rose image in two opposite corners of my card panel. I added a sentiment and a heart image from the same stamp as the rose. I used shimmer spray (it makes yet another appearance) to the roses and some Nuvo drops to the top of the heart, the middle of the flowers and around the sentiment and that’s my first card done!

For this card, I did yet another rainbow theme. I stamped and clear embossed six butterflies (for six colours) and used Distress Oxide re-inkers (I mixed two because we didn’t have a full rainbow) to paint over. I did a wet and wet technique to colour them. I dried it with a heat tool because I’m impatient and stamped the sentiment and clear embossed as well. I added a sparkle pen inside some places in the butterfly. Then I used some jewels from Kat Scrappiness and clear drops from Studio Katia (both of which my mother was very reluctant to give me -_- ) all around the card and that finished my second card.

While making swinking cards, I had ended up ink smooshing somehow (I literally can’t remember how) and I made two cards with the ink smooshed panels I had (one of which will be in my blog post tomorrow). I used a heart die and cut it out of white cardstock. I swinked it using the same technique. I added shimmer spray (yet again) to the heart. I splattered it and one of my ink smooshed panels with black paint. With a black pen, I added stitching around the heart. I stamped the sentiment and a heart. Using the same black pen I added two smaller hearts around the sentiment. I stuck the heart to the panel and added Nuvo drops floating up from the heart like bubbles. I also added the Nuvo dropsto the biggest heart. And that completed my third and final card for today!

These cards will be entered into the: Simon Says Stamp Kids Summer Vacation Challenge

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