Hey Junkies!
The Crafty Nurse back with some inky inspiration for this wonderful almost spring day! This is such a beautiful time of year filled with new hope and promise of beautiful things to come.
Along that thought, I wanted to share my favorite stamp of the new March 2017 release called, "Queen SD787". Such a striking figure, right? To create her I used my MISTI. Stampers, if you don't have one of these tools, run, don't walk. I resisted for a long time but once I got one I wish I'd done so a lot earlier. They really making getting good impressions so easy to achieve and the techniques that you can do with these are just amazing.
For the focal image, I began by selecting the areas I wanted brown and I used Distress Markers in Gathered Twigs to color just those areas. I had to do this multiple times, but that's okay because the MISTI allows for perfect alignment. Once I did that, I repeated the areas I wanted black, coloring those with Black Soot and then the lips in Fired Brick. Now, here comes the really cool part. Apply clear embossing powder to your entire image and heat set. Now your entire image is resistant allowing for any application of technique over it.
The final step for my focal image is application of Faced Jeans Distress Ink through the Art Anthology Cracked Stencil cool, right? For the background I used a version of Distressed Stain Dip from the Artistic Effects CD also using Faded Jeans and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. Finally, I added another TJ stamp to the edge of my background called, "Bubble Icicle #S573", which I also stamped using my MISTI with Archival Ink.
Thanks for stopping by the Technique Junkies Blog today and we all wish you lots of creative play today and always.
