The Easy Ink Blending Techniques

course with Altenew Academy was a favorite of mine. Amy was so informative and so talented. Her projects were gorgeous! Her explanations as to why she did certain things, what papers to use with the blending, examples of her blending with swatches, taking time to blend with a light hand, and having patience.

I have made a few projects since completing the course and wasn't sure which one to focus on. In the end I decided to just make a new one all together.

So last night I decided that I was going to make something different, rather than just a die cut card with a splotch of blended ink in the middle of it. The Open Peony Layering die set caught my eye and I wanted to use softer colors for the overall look, instead of colored cardstock. Don't get me wrong, I love colored cardstock but for the look I imagined the blending was the way I wanted to go. So I chose the Altenew crisp dye inks I have in the cubes and blended 3 greens and 4 pinks on seperate pieces of Nina solar white 80lb. cardstock. I basically layered each color below the other and layed the dies out where they would have a decent amount of each of the colors in strategic places for the way the petals were going to lay. for the middle of the flower I blended Buttercream and Warm Sunshine ink on another piece of cardstock. I curled the petal on one of the flowers as I put it together, but opted to leave the other one more flat. I then used the Doily Frame Stencil on a card panel with Limestone Crisp Dye Ink. For the sentiment, I chose the Well Read stamp set, using Silverstone ink for a little darker look. I embossed the sentiment and the stenciled image with clear embossing powder. I then used some Silver Smoke Neuvo mica mist on the panel by tapping the stem from the bottle. (side note...I covered the sentiment with the stamp to keep the mist from covering it in any way.) I mounted the panel onto a green cardstock card base and placed the flowers on opposite sides with foam tape. Trimmed the access off of each side and added those extra pieces to inside of the card where I'll write.

Another thing to point out here...The lighting in my office this morning seem to pick up the perfect color of the inks but when I photographed them the colors looked sooo bright and not the true color of the flowers. Still, I love how the card turned out!

Comments

Erum Tasneem said…

This turned out SO beautiful, Jami! You did a great job! Well done!

November 28, 2022 at 2:57 AM

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