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Saturday, June 19, 2021

You're My Reason to Smile

 Hello dear crafty friends!  It's Candice with you today and I want to share with you my secret of how to get the splattered backgrounds for your scene building!



I love to use the splatters on my ink blended backgrounds to add contrast to my scenes and I feel it's about time I shared this with you!


The first thing I like to do is to die cut my stitched panel, here I used the Double Stitched DIN Lang dies, from Bristol Smooth cardstock.  I find Bristol Smooth to work the best for my blending of oxide inks.

On this panel, I used abandoned coral, dried marigold, and squeezed lemonade to get the base.


Now, onto the splattering!

I have found from asking around (especially helped by @theunpamperedstamper) that the best way to get the solid white is to use the Copic Opaque White paint.  

For my gold splatters I either use watercolor paint (as I did here) or for a more lighter sheen I used shimmer sprays.  

I then like to use the darkest oxide color I inked with, either by rubbing onto a piece of acetate or using the refills, and the damp paint brush.

The paintbrush of choice is #4 (another helpful hint from my friend) pictured above.


Now, while we let the panel dry, we move onto the pieces that will be put onto the card!

I die cut many of the Summer Florals dies from different pattern papers that would match the background.

Next, I heat embossed the 'SMILE' and fussy cut around it. 

The cute little pig was next, I stamped him, colored him with copic markers, and fussy cut him out.


To put the card together, I glued the splattered background to the center of my card base, glued the bases of the floral dies, and topped them with a row of black twine.  

I then used foam tape to add the pig and 'SMILE' and stamped the sentiment above.  To finish, I sprinkled a few yellow jewels!


Experiment with the paints and watercolors that you have to see what works for you!  Also, try different sized brushes for varying sized splatters, for galaxies, I use a toothbrush to get the really tiny dots!








Don't forget there is a current challenge that you can try this new technique on for your chance to win!

Thank you for visiting today!

Candice

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