Thursday, January 14, 2010

this was the most fun i've had all year! (so far)

if you enjoy making a big splodgy mess with paints and inks and gesso... (& who doesn't??!) ...then you definitely need to check out this completely AWESOME tutorial by julie balzer* on using prima flowers as masks for a wonderful sprayed ink background! here's a card i made with my first attempt at this technique:**


(plain white cardstock: staples; glossy white cardstock: ranger; pink patterned paper: provocraft; gem flourish & flowers used as masks: prima (btw, said flowers which all cool & inky and then you smear 'em with gesso to get a cool mottled effect; julie b. used hers on her LO; i've saved mine for later) alphabet masks: heidi swapp; velvet flower & fancy brad: k&co; pen: sakura; spray inks: smoosh & glimmer mist; adhesives: tombow monorunner & sewing machine; other: dymo labeller, watercolor paints to drip and brush)

i really like how this came out...but next time i think i'll leave more of the masked bits *WHITE* instead of going back in with a layer of watercolors. it's not that they look bad, but in retrospect i really love the shadowy white bits up at the top right, and i wish there were more of those. still, i think this is quite an honorable first go! i need some more of those little smoosh spray thingies though, for sure, i can totally feel an addiction coming on! ♥♥♥

eta thursday night: many thanks to my lovely friend and jacksonbelle embellishments rockstar amy tsuruta for the suggestion that i enter this in jacksonbelle's current tuesday challenge, "blinging in the new year"!

*which darling stef sent me! i'm telling you, you NEED to check out her thursday link love posts...and by golly, today's thursday...we're just in time!!!

**i know, i know, just when you thought you'd seen it all: i have actually tried A TECHNIQUE! who'd've thunk it, eh??!) :)

8 comments:

  1. haha this is great!! I can totally see you making this the whole time going. "This is fun. Ooh but a techinque what am I getting myself into??" haha

    Gorgeous girlie! You ready to post your throw down card tomorrow for Body Hunter? I'm ready (surprisingly)

    Love the card!! Very pretty. :)

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  2. ryn: haha that is exactly what i'm going to try my hand at. My next ornament will be get this....a flamingo! A truly Floridian Christmas ornament if I've ever thought of one. :)

    We'll see how it goes.

    As for the Bounty hunter card Yep its Valentiney!! ;)

    Have to do another dandelion this weekend for someone so I'll work on one for you too!

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  3. beautifully done!! way to go with the new technique!!

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  4. Oh m'gosh! SO cool, not to mention totally gorgeous! I absolutely love it!

    (-: Heidi

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  5. Oh girlie, this is soooo fantabulous...you gotta enter it into the Jacksonbelle bling challenge:) What a wonderful technique!

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  6. Lauren..What a beautiful creation..Glad you had so much fun playing with the smoosh and glimmermist.. I love glimmermist and have a few bottles...If you try it on MM kraft paper 'multipack white' you will see some magic..
    Hugs...

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  7. Gorgeous card! Thanks for playing at Jacksonbelle:)

    (BTW, I love the name of your blog:) W

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  8. This is just gorgeous! Thanks for playing along! I'd love to add your card to the customer gallery on Facebook. Let me know if that would be alright! :D

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