I made a card base from watercolour paper and coloured it first quite smoothly with Distress inks. Mermaid lagoon is my new favourite so that features heavily ;-).
Also salty ocean, faded jeans, chipped sapphire.
Some watered down with Perfect pearls mist.
Dried that with my heatgun.
Then I heat embossed the sentiment from Joy Crafts in white embossing powder.
Then set to Distress the "ocean" as if they were bubbles and such, used the smooshing technique, splattering, even ink block printing, drying constantly between layers.
final touches were splattering brushed pewter, picket fence and mermaid lagoon Distress Spray stains.
Then when dried I use the edge of my table to flatten the curls back out of the paper.
I use good quality watercolor paper so that's pretty easy actually.
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Nou, hier kun je echt niet omheen: water. Leuk gedaan. Groetjes, Ankie
ReplyDeleteAn amazing ocean technique and so eye-popping Maaike.
ReplyDeleteWe do like to see some white space on LIM cards but can't fault this for ingenuity and striking awesomeness!
Thanks for sharing, Sarah
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oh i thought white space meant emtpy space... apart from the sentiment it's pleanty empty i thought...my bad
ReplyDeletegreat card, the water background is amazing!
ReplyDeleteWow, that effect is amazing, wonderful technique. I guess white space and empty space can have a similar meaning but either way, this is tremendous!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing with us.
Anita x
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Gorgeous background - well done!
ReplyDeleteAmazing effect and a lovely result x
ReplyDeleteWow, this is a spectacular card!
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