Hi all today is the day of the Hot Mess =Success challenge. This was started by Kelly and I was invited to join. The other group members are Barb, Jeanette and Darlene and of course Kelly when she gets to create and post a card, The usual theme is anything goes and I have really learned and seen many new techniques and fun cards since I joined.
This month I googled to see if there was something new to me to try. My new to me technique is swiping ink over a dry embossed image. It looked easy when I watched the you tube video......right. I used 3 colors of inks on each panel and after I was ok with the background I sprayed each panel with a shimmer spray to add a little wow to the backgrounds. On some of them I used stickles to pump up the background a bit as well.
I took 5 different embossing folders and 5 white pieces of white cardstock and embossed them and started off. My first card was a 3 flower image. I used distress ink to swipe ink over the image. I swiped 3 different colors on each . I wasn't at all impressed at all with my first attempt.....
I used lavenders and a couple swipes of green.
Back to the drawing board. I decided to use a full embossing background for the next 4 cards since I liked it better.
I had colored up several images awhile ago and went through my images and thought these might be appropriate for the backgrounds I had created. I mounted the images on mounting tape to pop them up so they wouldn't get lost in the background The last 4 backgrounds I decided I liked. My fingers were all sorts of colors but it was a fun mess and something I had never tried before.
Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I do hope you like the cards I created and the technique I chose. Please stop by the other blogs and see what each of my friends have created. I am certain you will not be disappointed.
Until next time...
Hugs,
Carol
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