Today's card is all about healing thoughts: whether someone is under the weather or having a rough time. Today is a bad day for me as it marks a sad anniversary, so here's a little colour tip to brighten all our days.
Panel Blending
For this technique you will need some blending tape. You could use some low tack masking tape but it can be tricky to find it in narrower widths. Start with an A6 card panel. Use a wider width masking tape around all 4 sides; this ensures an even border around the panel without measuring. Use a narrower tape to mask the spaces between; you can do this by eye, or measure for accuracy.
Use scrap paper to cover the panels you aren't currently inking. With a blending brush and ink, start at the top of the outside panels and from the bottom in the centre panel. With a flicking motion sweep along the length of the panel from your starting point to create an ombre blend. Here's I used Peacock Feathers, Squeezed Lemonade (with a little Wild Honey) and Picked Raspberry.
Using worker stamps from the Glorious stamp set, stamp an image to the bottom of each panel without removing the masking. Black ink can go a little cloudy over Distress Oxide, so be sure to use a strong black hybrid ink pad.
Assembling the Card
Stamp and emboss in white your desired sentiment; mine was from the Words of Comfort and Cheer stamp set. A detail embossing powder typically works better for sentiments.
Mount the A6 panel onto a slightly larger piece of aqua or teal cardstock before mounting the entire panel and sentiment onto a 7x5" card base.
A beautiful sentiment and card Natalie and I love the three panels with the lighter sections at the bottom of the outer ones, and at the top for the central one, and the colours look great together and such pretty images to put within. Sorry that this was a sad memory anniversary but this card says it perfectly. x
ReplyDeleteYour card is uplifting and wonderful and "Simply" beautiful.
ReplyDeleteFaith x