I made this card for an awesome member of UMC named Darin Smith. He's great with the youth of the church and one of the people you see every Sunday with his family. After as many cards that I've made, I still struggle with the masculine cards. It's so easy for me to make a "Pretty" card for a female but to make a masculine card it takes some skill, practice and some fancy tools. lol.
I used a lot of Tim Holtz products on this card so we'll just say, for the sake of time, that every thing is Tim Holtz product unless otherwise noted. Ok. now that we've got that out of the way, let me tell you how I made this card.....
I forget what Tim calls the technique that I used but basically what I did was use my non stick craft mat and put some distress ink down in colors of red, blue and grey. I then sprayed the ink with water, (We all know that distress inks react with water), If you didn't know that, what it does to the ink is make it act more like a water color. The ink just moves around the paper so easily. It's great for making backgrounds. So once I sprayed the ink with water I gave it a minute to puddle up then placed a sheet of watercolor paper cut to the size of my card, face down into the ink and water and just picked up the color. Notice how it all blends together nicely. You can then heat dry it and continue picking up more color in layers as many times as you like or until you run out of ink. I then used a labels die to cut out the piece for the sentiment and stamped the blueprint present in red and the "make a wish" in blue to match the background I had created. I added some ribbon from my stash tied in a bow and a flower from the Paper Studio and some black enamel dots that I made. I also did some stenciling with modeling paste on the background. You can see it good to the top and right of the present stamp on the red. The modeling paste is white so I went over it with some silver Inka Gold Metallic Rub. It's a waxy water based product that I just love to use. It covers quite nicely. The only other thing I did to the card was I changed the flower center and added one of my vintage buttons for the center.
That's all for this card. I hope you enjoyed it. I will try not to be so long between post from now on. I've just been having some personal issues to deal with but they are being taken care of so maybe I will be back on track soon, Till then much Hugs and Love, amy K
