I have been impressed with the urgency of doing

I’ve had fun playing today with Inking of You from Tiddly Inks and, appropriately, inks.

The card I’ve made is going to a friend who wants to get back into painting but is finding it hard to make the time.  She’s got the canvas and paint and just needs some brushes so I’ve bought her one and made this card to nudge her into getting more brushes and putting them to canvas.

To match the theme I’ve done up my own backgrounds for my card, I’m quite proud of my efforts and the fact I haven’t used a single designer paper but still ended up with a colourful and interesting result.  The first thing I did was hunt down some canvas, I’ve actually used a Prima Mistables sheet, I tried misting the front but I can’t control spray paints (never much of a rebel so I wasn’t a graffiti artist) so turned it over and used a stencil to make paint splodges with modelling paste.  I then used my Smooch Spritzes to colour up my paint splodges, I sprayed my craft mat and used a brush to get the ink just on the paint splodges.  Not sure if this still counts as using mists but going to link up my card at Cut It Up! anyway, I certainly have the other requirement of a die cut, which I’ve used as a frame for my ‘artwork’.

The burned batik background of my artwork was done following a tutorial by Beate on Splitcoast Stampers.  I used a piece of stamping paper and white embossing powder.  I wasn’t happy with the way the inks looked when I used a sponge applicator to place them so I spritzed the card with water to give my background a lovely watercolour effect.  So I guess this is actually burned aqua batik.

The layout of my card follows the sketch over at Aud Sentiments, I did make the top square element into a larger rectangle, basically because I had already coloured my image and it was too big to fit in the right sized square.  The sentiment I moved as I couldn’t think of anything else to put on the vertical rectangle element, it’s a little hard to see but I still like the effect.  I also swapped out the horizontal rectangle element for paint brushes as I thought these really added to the whole theme I have going.

I actually did the same to the image.  I wanted to use another Tiddly Inks’ image of an artist but unfortunately it is retired so I had to go with the one I had.  I just cut off the bottom of her fountain pen and made a brush end, rather than colour the paint on it I added some modelling paste and coloured it with Smooch Spritz also.

The card is actually a twisted easel, which allowed me to add in my second sentiment, a rather fitting quote from a very famous painter; a little ironic too given how little motivated da Vinci was at actually painting. It's a bit hard to read in the pic, the quote is "Being willing is not enough we must do".  Over at Penny’s Paper-Crafty their theme is more than one fold, so I am entering my card in their challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E31, E33, E37 (R20 cheeks)

Hair E37, T4, T6, T8, 110

Outfit B23, B24, B37, B39, B41, N5, N7, N9, W5, W7, W9, 0, 100

Brush C1, C3, C5, E51, E53, E55, E70, E71, E74

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Ochre

Wow! Embossing Powder ~ Opaque Bright White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

13@rts Stencil ~ Numbers

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Romantic Rose

Embellishments

Mont Marte ~ Gallery Series Brushes

Inks & Paints etc

Inkssentials ~ Emboss It Clear

Smooch Spritz ~ Cherry Ice, Emerald Sprinkle, Majestic, Mixed Berries, Sea Kiss & Sun Kissed

Teresa Collins Basically Essential ~ Modelling Paste

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Dusty Concord, Salty Ocean, Tea Dye & Wild Honey

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock Monochromatic ~ Raven
Brown Cardstock from stash

Core’dinations Cardstock Smooth ~ Black Cat

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Weathered Wood
Inkssentials ~ Stamping Paper

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Licorice

Stamps

Stempelglede ~ Grunge Flourish Hearts & Magic

Tiddly Inks ~ Inking of You

Challenges

Aud Sentiments #131 ~ Sketch

Cut It Up! #71 ~ Misty

Penny’s Paper-Crafty #227 ~ More than one fold

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