Glossy Spritz Technique

 Hello from design team member, Heidi. I hope you are doing well!

I don’t know if this easy background technique already has a name, it doesn’t need one, but I called it Glossy Spritz, for the sake of the blog title.  

Basically, I brayered dye ink on glossy paper. 

You could add it direct-to-paper if you want.  

Next, I spritzed it with water and used my heat gun to dry. 

I repeated the process, as needed, to get an interesting look. 

I think it looks best with multiple colors of ink, but it looks really neat regardless, more dramatic than with regular cardstock.

For each card, I decided to stamp right over top of the background with Archival Black ink.  I just chose very different stamps for each card based on how the background was “feeling” to me.  

Honesty, the biggest trick to making this card is waiting for the black ink to dry so you don’t smudge it.  I hope you might want to try it today as it is so fun and easy.

Here are the stamps I used for these cards:

Animals from MS110 Full Plate in the I Brake for Stamps shop.

Sentiment from Inspirational Phrases in the I Brake for Stamps shop.

Thank You Word Art from the Blank Page Muse Shop.

Flowers from Flower & Bird Sketches from the Blank Page Muse Shop.

You can also find more inspiration at the links below:

The Blank Page Muse- https://blankpagemuse.com/

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A Fall Journal Page...

Hello Again Blank Page Muse Stamps Fans!!

Are you all enjoying our Fall and Halloween themed month so far??

It's a bit weird for me here in Australia as it's Spring and not Autumn so it's strange to be working with the warmer autumnal tone colours - so guess what I did? I added a flower stamp to the red/yellow/green page so it's part Fall and part Spring LOL!

Hope you like this page - it's really quite quick and easy with minimal supplies needed and you can adapt it to a range of Blank Page Muse Stamps and any colour combo you like!

Supplies:

Blank Page Muse Stamp Set: Art Journaling Mixed Media by Pam Bray Designs

Blank Journal Page or plain white card

Coloured Ink Pads - any 3 co-ordinating colours, any distress or dye ink pads

Stencil - use your favourite!

Embossing Ink Pad and Black Embossing Powder

Fixative Spray - "optional" depending on types of ink pads used

Tools & Supplies: sponges, scissors, heat gun, sticky note pad & ink pad for making flower "mask"

Instructions:

First step is to sponge your coloured inks onto the blank journal page - randomly, doesn't have to be perfect - blend until you are happy with the effect and depth of colours.

Next step grab your stencil and using the same 3 coloured inks randomly sponge bits of the stencil over the page - alternate the colours. If you have used Distress Inks you may wish to add a fine mist of fixative spray to set the ink.

Using the large flower from the Journaling Set stamp with ink onto a sticky note pad and fussy cut to make a "mask" to use on the journal page.

Using the embossing ink pad start stamping the flower - add embossing powder and use heat gun to melt after you stamp each flower. Stamp them along the outside of the page or your piece of paper using the mask to cover the already embossed flowers as you work up (or down!!) the page!

Use your scissors to fussy cut around the flowers as shown below to get the patterned look on the edge of the page! It will look even better when you complete the page behind and you have some colour behind the flower edge!

Finally stamp and emboss the "Journal" word stamp from the set at the bottom of the page. And your page is finished!

You can have lots of fun playing around with different Blank Page Muse Stamps to make fancy edges on your pages!

Hope you have enjoyed this little tutorial!

I'll be back soon with some more inspiration for you.

Don't forget to check us out at all of the following Social Media Sites:

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Happy Stamping!

Sharon



ART JOURNALING WITH TERRI SPROUL 2

Hello Friends!  Today I want to share an art journal piece I made using the Art Journaling with Terri Sproul 2 set and a stamp from the Love of Butterflies set.

 I just wanted to show you why the Terri Sproul Art Journaling 2 set is so awesome.  There are a lot more stamps than the one's I'm showing with this set, but I wanted to show that the set comes with several stamps that are prompts!  If you are stuck for a theme in our journal, you can just stamp one of these and roll with it!!