InkOn3 | Faux Watercolor Background with Atelier Inks

I have another easy way to add faux watercolor to your cards with Atelier Inks from InkOn3. It's more smooshing! But this time with an acrylic block! 

I am back at the ink smooshing! But this time I found a way to better control the ink by using an acrylic block! I started by heat embossing the large Triple Rose Stamp onto watercolor cardstock using my InkOn3 Juicy Watermark Emboss Ink and Arctic White Ultra Fine Embossing Powder. This will better allow me to see how much color I need to add to my panel. Plus the heat embossed portions sort of "trap" colors making the color darker in areas and lighter in others. 

I used three colors of Atelier Ink - Marilyn Red, Peacock Blue, and My Jam Purple. I chose these colors purposely because no matter how they mix they won't make a brown color. I smooshed the colors onto my acrylic block and spritzed with water and pressed them onto a piece of watercolor cardstock holding the block in place until the color had a chance to "grip" the paper. I kept adding color until the whole background was full of GORGEOUS color! I added flicks of clean water as well as Shark Tooth White Atelier Ink for texture. 

I completed the card by adding a white die cut frame as well as a die cut sentiment. My stamped sentiment strip is from the Here for You Stamp Set. I've been using it for all of my sentiments lately! Thanks for joining me! 

InkOn3 | Ink Smooshed Backgrounds with White Flowers

I love to ink smoosh, don't you!? It gets a bit messy, but the results are so colorful and fun! Today I'm sharing ink smooshing with Atelier Inks and using the NEW Gerbera Daisy Stamp Set from InkOn3! 

Let's just dive right in to those gorgeous backgrounds! I ink smooshed two ways. I started by putting some Bee Sting Yellow, Sweet Petunia Pink, and Trinity Teal Atelier Inks onto my glass work surface. I spritzed them with water and picked up all three colors at once with a piece of plastic and smooshed it onto a piece of watercolor cardstock. I continued to pick up ink until my panel was full. I liked this background, but mixing all three colors together at once created some muddy areas, so I tried a second method to reduce the mud. Haha! 

I used the same three colors of Atelier Ink for my second background, but this time I used them one at a time. I added a bit of Bee Sting Yellow, dried the panel, then Sweet Petunia Pink, dried the panel, and Trinity Teal, and dried the panel. Allowing the colors to dry in between and adding them one at a time reduced the amount of mixing. There's definitely still some mixing of color, but I don't have muddy colors this time. I watered down some Paint it Black Atelier Ink and added ink spatters all over each background. 

I didn't want my images on top to take away from my pretty Atelier Ink backgrounds, so I decided to leave them white. I stamped some flowers and leaves from the Gerbera Daisy Stamp Set and trimmed them with my scissors. I mounted them with foam on my backgrounds. I stamped sentiments from the Here for You Stamp Set with Juicy Watermark Emboss Ink and heat set them with Arctic White Ultra Fine Embossing Powder. I trimmed them into strips and added them to the center of my floral cluster. 

I added a bit of glam to the sentiment strips with Liquid Pixie Dust to complete this card set. I hope you'll try this ink smooshing technique! 

i-crafter // Watercolor Ink Smooshing and Subtle Embossing

Well, hello there! I got super inky with my background today, added some embossing for texture, and an outlined die cut sentiment. Hooray for fabulous i-crafter products!

Let's start with the background. It's easy to do! Just smoosh some water reactive ink down on a work surface, spritz with water, and dip a piece of watercolor cardstock into the inky goodness! Dry ... and repeat!

When I was all done I decided to add some subtle texture. I used the Water Lily 3D Embossing Folder - but without adding the shim to my die cutting machine. So instead of a bold 3D outline I have just some subtle raises in my background.

I wanted a simple sentiment that would really stand out. Haley Outline Dies to the rescue! I cut out the word "hello" twice - once from white and once from black cardstock. I lined up the white letters and glued them onto my background and pieced the black outlines around them.

I finished off my card to match my sentiment - a black border on a white card base. And that's all! See you soon!

Rainbow Gingerbread Cookies

Hi, everyone! I have a post on The Hedgehog Hollow blog today using some fun products from the November box to make a nontraditional Christmas card! This box is sold out, but remember to head over to The Hedgehog Hollow shop! There are still a few of the exclusive Christmas boxes left! And you can sign up for a subscription so you never miss a box! Here's my card! Scroll down to the bottom of this post for the process video!

I used a rainbow of Distress Inks to create an ink smooshed background! I used Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Mermaid Lagoon, and Dusty Concord! My favorite rainbow combination!! I colored my gingerbread men with alcohol markers. I took a picture of the markers I used - you can see it below. I ended up not using the yellow ones. I had intended to color the buttons yellow, but I actually forgot to stamp them. I ended up going back in and stamping them after I had colored the images and filled them in with a white gel pen.

You can watch the video below!



Thanks for joining me!