March 31, 2018
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Elaineabella here! Happy Saturday. I hope you’re enjoying a lovely Easter weekend, whatever you’re up to. I’ve got a pretty scene card to share with you today, featuring one of the new Stamping Bella Tiny Townie Butterfly Girls.
Click on through to check it out and watch the video to see how the card came together!
You may have gathered that I love using the Distress Oxide inkpads to create backgrounds. I enjoy using them so much!
Last week I shared a fun gnome scene card and a video showing how I created it. On that card I did my stamping, Distress Oxide ink blending, and Copic colouring on Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface paper. You can check that post and video out HERE.
Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface paper is well suited to ink blending, but not quite as well suited to Copic colouring – you can adapt and work with it, but it isn’t my favourite paper to use for Copics. Today I wanted to show you something I do a little more often, which is prioritising the Copic colouring aspect by using a more Copic friendly paper and making the inked background work on that. For today’s card and video I used my favourite Copic friendly paper – Make it Colour Blending Card. Give it a go using your own favourite paper for Copic colouring, you may be surprised to see how well the ink blending works out!
NOTE: This is easier with Distress Oxides due to their creamy consistency. Distress Inks are a little tougher to achieve a nice blend with on the very smooth non-coated papers we tend to use for Copic and other alcohol markers, and you may find that you end up with more harsh edges and marks that are rather difficult to cover or blend out.
I love how it turned out. The Distress Oxides make for such easy, fun, and vibrant backgrounds.
Watch me put together my card and colour beautiful Butterfly Girl Blanche in the video below or in HD over on YouTube.
Full colour details are provided in the video, along with a little commentary on how I put the whole thing together. If you enjoy the video, please do like and subscribe, it all helps!
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Until next time, HAPPY STAMPING!
MWAH
Elaineabella
Thanks so much for sharing Elaine! I finally have some of those inks and can’t wait to try it out! 🙂
I love, love, love this card! I have to get one or 2 stamps from this set. Of course the background is my favorite color in the whole wide world or at least part of it is, yellow. I love the way you colored this card! it is so adorable and the colors look so pretty together. Thanks for showing this to us!