Holiday Thinking Inking--WaterInked Background

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Holiday Thinking Inking--WaterInked Background

This card is for Holiday Thinking Inking, Week 1, Project 2: WaterInked Background

4 3/4“x 5 15/16”
Card–Judikins Black Glossy Cardstock
Mat–Judikins White Glossy Cardstock
Surface for stamping–140-lb. hot press watercolor paper
Background Stamp–Stamp Out Cute
Sentiment Stamp–PrintWorks, copyright Annette Allen Watkins
Distress Inks–Weathered Wood, Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans, and Chipped Sapphire
Spica Clear Glitter Pen
Sakura Gelly Roll Stardust Pen, clear (actually silvery color; will probably look gray here)

I loved the look of Jennifer's card and the cards I've seen posted with this technique, but I had some problems. Everyone else's cards have four separate colors. Mine blended together. I pressed the four different inks on the craft sheet. I used that ink to ink up the background stamp, but the four squares were not enough to cover the image so I moved it around a bit, thus the blended colors. Then I misted the inked stamp with water and put the watercolor paper on top of the image and pressed all over with my fingers. I wasn't too sure I liked the result, but the more I played with it, the more I liked it.

I stamped the sentiment with Staz-on, and one of the words didn't stamp. I used a stamp positioner to re-stamp, this time with VersaFine. I got a good image and tried to emboss it. The embossing didn't take, but it made the sentiment darker. I think I over-heated it and that the watercolor paper absorbed the embossing faster than my regular cardstock does.

I thought the card was rather drab (after all, the sentiment uses the word “splendor”) so I used Spica's Clear Glitter Pen on the stars. That pen doesn't release much glitter so I was going over it again when my daughter called me to see the sunset glimmering on a palm tree a couple of blocks away. When I returned to my table, I picked up the pen and continued highlighting the stars. Wow! What a difference! The rest did that pen good. I thought I had discovered the way to use that Spica Pen–just don't press down; the glitter was flowing easily. Then I realized I had picked up Sakura's Stardust Pen! That one really covers, and it's usually my go-to pen, but I wanted it to be perfectly clear this time, and the Stardust Pen is a bit silvery. I know from experience it's going to show up gray in the scan. Oh, well.

I'm actually surprised by how much I like this card. Thank you, Jennifer, for a new way to ink my stamps. Next time, I'll try for the four colors! TFL. Daria