I have for you another card, it was meant for Valentine’s Day and I did uploaded it in February on my old blog. However, it can be given for other occasions as well.
While this card is fairly easy to make, it’s not as simple as my previous cards, because you will need few specific supplies, like a stamp in the shape of a heart and Distress inks. The inspiration for this card I got from Michel Short, she made a card on her YouTube channel, where she stamped a city skyline using distress inks and then she created reflections. You can see the video here. If you don’t know what reflections are, let me explain it to you little bit. When you have a city skyline or mountains and below it is a lake reflecting the city skyline or the mountains, that’s reflections. I was looking for this term so long, because I saw something similar on Instagram where someone painted pine trees and the bottom of the pine trees was bleeding down. No idea how to describe it. I don’t think these are called reflections, but it’s similar. You can see the Instagram video here. What I like about the card Michel made is that she didn’t create true reflections, she called it scrubbily reflections, which I really liked and right away I thought, I have to create something like this.
So talk about how I made this card.
As I said I’m using Distress inks, eleven different colours for eleven hearts. This is the amount of hearts that fits on a horizontal layout of an A6 card. In the video I think I mentioned twelve, but it’s eleven. Somehow I thought it was twelve. The stamp set I’m using for my card is from Wplus9 and it’s called Little Bits. These hearts are quite small, that’s why I needed eleven colours. And I do wish I had a stamp set with bigger hearts, but I didn’t find anything I would like. To figure out how many hearts I need and which colours of Distress inks I like, I first stamped bunch of hearts on a scrap of card stock. The Distress ink colours I picked are:
I trimmed down a panel to A6 size for which I used the Canson XL, cold press watercolour card stock. And then I drew a line to make sure that I’m stamping in a straight line. What I found important is to have an acrylic blog that has lines. This way it’s easier to align the line on the panel with the lines on the acrylic block. For my first card I didn’t use such acrylic block and the hearts weren’t in a straight line.
I drew the line I think five or six centimeters from the bottom, but I wish I put it about one centimeter higher to make sure that not only the hearts are in the middle but the whole thing - the hearts, reflections and the sentiment.
First, I started stamping in the middle with the yellow heart and after that I stamped all the hearts on the left side and then all the hearts on the right side, slightly overlapping each other. I also made sure that I’m not stamping directly on the pencil line, as I wanted to erase it later. Also after I stamped with one colour, I wiped the stamp with a damp cloth and dried it on a piece of a kitchen towel. And before I put the Distress ink pad away, I squished it on a piece of an acrylic glass. You don’t need an acrylic glass, any slick surface will do. I just needed to squish out the colour to watercolour the reflections. After I stamped all eleven hearts, I first erased the pencil line and then I started with the reflections. I dapped my watercolour brush in a little bit of water and then I reactivated the colour of the heart and moved the colour downwards. I found that tilting the card stock helped to get the water moving.
I was hoping to be able to just reactivate the colour of the stamped heart, as Distress inks you can reactivate with water, but then the reflections were too light and I needed to add little bit more colour. Luckily I had the colours I squished on the acrylic block and I used those to make the colours more saturated.
At first I thought it looked horrible, but in the end I think it looks quite cool. I’m not sure if hearts are the best image for this technique, something with flat bottom might be better. I let the card air dry and then I used my stitched rectangular die and die cut the panel. For the sentiment I used a stamp set from Clearly Besotted and stamped it right below the reflections using the Versafine ink in Onyx black. Before I adhered it to a card base, I decided to use a golden splatter, for which I used the watercolours from Gansai Tambi. This is completely optional, I just thought the card needs something extra. You can also use some embellishments. For the card base I used a craft card stock and I adhered the panel on top of it using a foam tape. This finishes the card. I hope you liked it and got inspired. If you recreate this card or something similar, I would like to see it. If you have an Instagram, you can tag me there. Thank you for stopping by, if you have any questions, do not hesitate to drop me a line. VIDEO TUTORIAL
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