Beautiful card using Re-inkers and Rubbing Alcohol

I will show you the card first. Then, I will show you how EASY PEASY it is to do this. Donna, my hostess for the night wanted to learn more about this, so that is why I am doing this. She got me out of my comfort zone and I LOVE her for that!! I have used reinkers and cotton balls before, but didn't feel I had a lot of control.  So, I thought, why not get out the aquapainter.  And, I LOVE the effect!

Directions to make the card:

Ingredients:

Big Shot 113439 99.95

Top Note Die for Big shot 113463 21.95

Stamp set: Pocket Silhouettes 111672 18.95

Cardstock: ½ sheet certainly celery 105125 5.50, ¼ sheet glossy white 102599 5.95, scrap of glossy white, ¼ sheet ballet blue 100613 5.50

Ink: Stazon Black 101406 7.95

Re-inkers: Certainly Celery 105230 2.75, Ballet Blue 101713 2.75

Extras: Word Window Punch 105090 15.95, AquaPainter 103954 16.95, Snail Adhesive 104332 6.95, Stampin' Dimensionals 104430 3.95, Paper Snips 103579 9.95, Heat Gun (not shown) 100005 26.95

Non-SU! stuff: Rubbing Alcohol, little dish for alcohol( use an empty button container)

Step 1: Run the ¼ sheet of ballet blue and ¼ sheet of glossy white through the Big Shot. Set the ballet blue piece aside.

Step 2: Gather your supplies for making the background.

Step 3: Drop down drops of one of the colors of reinker.

Step 4: Add drops of the other color of reinker. Note: in the pictures the colors look the same – but in real life you can see the color difference. The more drops, the more color you will have.

Step 5. Soak up the rubbing alcohol with your aquapainter. Start blending the dots of ONE color together. Once you are finished blending the dots of one color, clean out (as much as possible) the aquapainter and blend the second color.

If you get too much color on your paper, you can move some of it off on to your scratch paper. I have actually moved off quite a bit of my color. I wanted my background to be pretty light so I could still stamp over top of the background.

Step 6: Dry your piece with the heat gun. You can dry from the backside and topside of the cardstock. If you rotate, it won't warp quite as much.

Step 7: Cut off on the "dotted" lines. When you ran the glossy paper through the big shot and used the top note die, the top note die automatically added the dotted lines around the edge. If you cut that off on this glossy sheet, then you can put it on to the ballet blue piece and have a nice border.

Step 8: Stamp images along the bottom of glossy paper using Black Stazon Ink.

Stamp "thanks so much" using Stazon ink and punch out with the word window punch.

Step 9: Add 6 stampin' dimensional to the back of the glossy paper.

Step 10: Mount glossy sheet onto Ballet blue cut piece. Add "thanks so much" punched piece using SNAIL.

You are finished!!

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Comments

[Dawn]

Awesome card! I love the technique. Thanks for the tutorial.

[stampin grandma]

awesome!