It is a dreary rainy weekend here in Perth, so I decided to try a new technique I had seen – it’s not actually new, just new to me. In involves rubbing alcohol, glossy card stock and re-inkers. I got a tad carried away with the background pieces I made, but it was a lot of fun.
The background pieces were so quick and easy to produce. I put some rubbing alcohol onto a cotton wool ball, added some drops of re-inker and then ‘painted’ the glossy card stock with the cotton wool. Some of the pieces i pounced and dabbed the cotton wool, some I swiped and some I swirled. My entire workspace was filled with coloured card as I kept trying different colour combos and application techniques. I cannot wait to use these pieces on other cards in the future. Sorry about the glare in the photo below – but as I mentioned it is wet and miserable here so I could go outside to take photos.
For a couple of pieces I picked the colour combo based on this weeks Just Add Ink Challenge. The inspiration photo for this week’s challenge is shown below – and for me it was the colours that stood out.
My unicorn is coloured in the same four colours using Stampin Write markers. The sentiment is actually stamped in a new colour, Grapefruit Grove (I love this new colour!), and the matting piece is also in Grapefruit grove. I thought that this actually matched quite nicely with the peekaboo peach once it dried on the glossy card stock. The unicorn is set on top of a stitched circle that I coloured with Bermuda Bay using Stampin Blends, and a foil snowflake that I found already coloured on my desk – I think it must be in Rich Razzleberry.
This card is incredibly bright and cheerful – so I think it will go in the stash of cards that my 4 year old can give to his friends on their birthdays throughout the year.
Update – this card earned me 1st Place in the design challenge this week! Feeling pretty happy with that 🙂