Industrial Waves

So, this month’s Technique Challenge on the Club Scrap Blog/Forum is to make your own background. I pulled out a technique that I have always loved, but haven’t done in a while:

I started by putting a few drops each of the Green and the Blue Club Scrap Metallic re-inkers (which they don't carry anymore) onto a piece of glossy black cardstock. I used a brayer to smooth out the colors, then I took a wadded up piece of scrap paper and pounced all over the paper. I loved the results! I set it aside to dry and left to go run some errands. A few hours later, I came back expecting to move forward with my card only to find that my background was not even close to being dry! Oops…thought I used too much ink. So I got a second piece of glossy cardstock and “smooshed” them together, then pulled them apart. Ok, I liked these results even better! It was then that I remembered to these need to be heat set. Oh well, I got a totally unexpected look and an extra really cool panel out of my mistake.

I also used some of the “extra” ink on my brayer and on my craft sheet to “finger paint” a white piece of cardstock. I used a Taylored Expressions die to cut the “waves” out of that piece.

Since I posted this for the week 4 “Industrial Arts” challenge on my PSL team (Pro Scrapping League – Club Scrap’s version of a sports season. Teams “compete” through a series of weekly crafting challenges), I used some copper colored metal from Ten Seconds Studio to die cut the Sea Horse from Cheery Lynn Designs and to cut out a tag for the sentiment.

Here are the other supplies I used:

**Paper from Club Scrap.

**Sentiment stamp is from Club Scrap (Seaside kit).

**Sentiment stamped with Midnight Blue StazOn ink.

**Rusty Brown StazOn ink was used to distress the tag and the sea horse. Copic Marker E29 was used to help highlight the details of the sea horse.

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