Welcome to Rebekah's Birthday Blog Bash. First of all Happy Birthday! Rebekah is celebrating her birthday with a blog hop that lasts the whole weekend. It started last night but you can easily come and play along. There are a lot of goodies and nice prices to be won.
I will start the Saturday hopping with this layout for which I have added step by step instructions for you to follow.
I have used a technique with Distress Inks and water to create the nice almost water colored look on my background strips. Here is how:
Step 1
Swipe on your craft sheet Ranger's Distress Ink Dusty Concord and Spiced Marmalade close together but not overlapping them in order to avoid contamination of your ink pads.
Step 2
Mist the inks with water (I used a Mini mister)
Step 3
Place a white cardstock (I used a plain A4 size smooth not textured cardstock) on the misted inks and swipe your hand on the back of the cardstock. Do not swipe the cardstock over the inks, the colors will get all muddy.
Dry the inks with a heating tool.
Step 4
Repeat the procedure. This time you'll see droplets on the cardstock. Dry with the heat tool and you can also blot some of them with a paper towel.
Step 5
You can repeat the procedure until you are satisfied with your background. I did it 4 times.
Step 6
Trim three strips out of your cardstock. (roughly 5cm x 25-27cm). You can trim further if you want.
Step 7
Ink the edges of the strips with Dusty Concord using an ink blending tool. I blended Spiced Marmalade and Dusty Concord on the strips to cover up most of the white spaces.
Step 8
Place the strips and the photo on white cardstock.
Step 9
Place a transparency frame on your photo. I used one of Hambly Screen Prints. You could also use a digital brush on your photo prior to printing it.
Step 10
Add journaling written on the computer and printed out on a ledger paper. Cut it in a circle and distress the edges with Distress Ink Walnut Stain. The journaling circle is mounted on foam pads.
Step 11
Add the title (American Crafts Thickers) and buttons. Finally sew around the whole layout with orange thread or alternatively doodle around the layout.
And voilà:
A BONUS
From the rest of the already painted A4 paper I made a card:
Step 1
Cut to size and distress the borders with Dusty Concord and add some Spiced Marmalade at the center.
Step 2
Stamp with Archival Ink Coffee (Archival Ink is a permanent ink which will not blend or bleed with Distress Inks which are water based inks) the image on the right side. I used a Technique Tuesday stamp.
Step 3
On the left side of the card stamp a quote with Black Archival Ink. I used Tim Holtz's stamp for this.
Mount to the front of a card.
And here's the finished card:
And the Blog Hop continues. Your next stop is at Sandra Van der Geest's blog:
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