Hello Miss Ink Stamps Friends! I am so excited to be guest designing this month and have a fun, get your fingers SUPER INKY blog post to share with you today. We will be creating some unique water colored backgrounds that we can turn into cards.
List of supplies needed:
Stencils (![]()
Random Dots and ![]()
Kaleidescope)
Dye Ink Pads
Water Color Paper
Spray Bottle
Stamps (![]()
Stuck Duck)
Coloring Medium for stamped images
Embossing folders
Metallic Watercolors
A2 Card Base
A few tips:
When selecting stencils, I find I get better results doing this technique with stencils that have a lot of negative space
(or plastic) in between the images. Second, the more saturated the ink colors the bolder the results. Let’s get started!!!
On this first example, I started with a watercolor background I made it by smooshing ink
on my work surface and adding a lot of water. I laid the cardstock in the pool of ink, pulled it up and let it dry.
First, I grabbed my stencil and ink. I put my stencil down and smooshed the ink bad directly on top of the stencil
making sure to apply the light colors first to keep from ruining my light color ink pads.
Next, I lifted my stencil from the surface and cleaned my work surface. I then placed my inked stencil back down
on my work surface, ink side up. I sprayed the inked stencil down with water to get the colors flowing.
I placed my watercolor paper down directly on the inked stencil and rubbed the back to distribute the ink onto the paper.
I pulled the paper up and let it dry. Once dry I have the base of my background complete. Oopsie, forgot to take a solo
photo, so you get to see several examples but the one we just created is in the middle.
Now….you can stop there, add your stamped images and sentiment and have a super card.
Or… you can add a few more details to kick it up a bit. I went for the kicked up version.
You can leave your backgrounds the size of a card front or die cut them, whatever works for you!! For these examples
I did use some dies to make stitched and scalloped edges. From there, let the embossing begin!
I picked out a couple of embossing folders that would simply add more texture to the background. I then ran my backgrounds through the
big shot with the embossing folder. This step also helps to flatten the watercolor paper if there was an warp after
using all the water and ink.
From there I added white splatters and gold paint strokes to the backgrounds for added details.
I colored up the adorable Stuck Duck images, fussy cut them and mounted my background, stamped and colored
images to an A2 card base to create my card.
On the following card, I followed the exact same steps listed above except, I started with a white watercolor background
and smooshed it into the Kaleidescope inked stencil.
Again I dry embossed with an embossing folder and added gold paint brush strokes. I left off the white splatters
on this one because there was plenty of white but you can add them if you want!
I added my stamped and colored images to the background and placed into an A2 card base to complete the card.
Thank you for being here today and I hope you have enjoyed this photo tutorial.
There is no right or wrong way to do this technique, just ink, paper, water and GO. If your mind says “What If” then try it! Keep an eye out to see
more of the backgrounds I created being used this month over on Instagram.
Happy Inking and Stamping!!
Eva
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