Before we start to show you the cards we’ve a
technique to share with you.
We hope it will get your creativity flowing.
Here is Karen’s How to Create A Textured Background
Tutorial
Tools:
Die cutting machine &
dies; or punches
Pencil and ruler; stylus tool;
paintbrushes; or tools or cotton wool to apply ink
Supplies:
White or coloured card;
snippets of white or coloured card
White acrylic paint; or watercolour paint; or inks; or metallic paints
Pritt stick
After my lovely bosses asked
me to create and share a tutorial for adding texture to your background papers
or card. I decided to think
about it first because my instant idea was to get very mucky with mixed media
techniques. However, I know
not everyone likes to get mucky so I thought about how the non mucky crafters
and artists could also try this technique with inks instead of MM supplies if
they don’t own them. This
is not my technique, it’s been around for a long time and as I’ve always wanted
to try and I thought that it would be ideal for The House of Cards. I want both mucky and non mucky
creators to try it. So here
goes …
I die cut lots of the smallest
flower that is on the Tim Holtz Bigz Sizzix die.
Because everyone doesn’t own die
cutting machines or dies you could also do this technique with a punch and if you don’t own any punches you can draw and cut
out easy to create shapes with a pencil and ruler (e.g. squares or rectangles)
or you could cut out random shapes (e.g. rough circles).
You don’t have to own lots of
tools to try this technique to.
Once I had die cut plenty of flowers
I grabbed a piece of mucky white card (I regularly get ink or paint onto my
card stock because I’m a bit mucky when crafting). You could also use card or paper that you
don’t like. I’ve realised that this is a
fabulous way to use up those itty bitty snippets that are left over from our
projects too.
Recycling and trying to craft
responsibly means a lot to me and I’ve recycled for a long time.
I used a piece of A6 card
that was left from another project and that had a dark fingerprint on it. I used my ruler and pencil to create a three
by four grid on the card.
Once I had drawn the lines in
I played around with the placement of the flowers until I was happy with the
look. I used Pritt Stick to glue my
flowers in position.
I added a thin layer of white acrylic paint and once that was touch
dry I grabbed a stylus and plopped white acrylic paint onto the die cut
flowers. The next step was to grab my
heat gun and blast over the glued flowers: bubbles, lots of lovely textured
bubbles! That was the result I wanted.
I left the card to dry again
before using a fine brush to go around the outside of the die cut flowers which
is why they catch the light so much.
I hope I have inspired you to
try this technique. Just remember if you
don’t own acrylic paints or watercolour paints you can use ink pads or re-inkers
or any other
water soluble ink to create this look.
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