Update...I got Showcased with this card...Thrilled and Delighted, thank you very much
Simply Less is More challenge this week is The Kissing Technique which was new to me.
Simply Less is More challenge this week is The Kissing Technique which was new to me.
It was suggested that the solid image should be on a lighter colour
and the decorative image a darker one.
I hunted and pulled out lots of solid and decorative stamps until I found ones that worked.
No easy task but I was determined to enter the challenge and try this new to me technique.
I hadn't done much stamping with pigment inks and I found they took ages to dry,
if indeed they dried at all!
Of course, just to complicate it a little more I wanted the image to be on black card
and found the pigment inks left a very chalky finish to them and was smudging....hours later!
Just some of my trials, there was a whole lot more!
It's hard to see the two colours in the photo but they are there.
I did the hat again, cut it out and popped onto foam for dimension.
The sentiment has been embossed in white EP.
I hi-lighted parts of the lady with a white pigment ink pen.
I finished the card off with a string of coordinating crystals around her neck for a little bling.
I did wonder why we did this technique, as there are lots of other ways to achieve the effect (so I thought) but then realised, if you can get the right stamps and the right combination of colours it is such a great way to get the pattern onto the stamped image without masking, fussy cutting, die cutting etc. and I would have really struggled to get the detail onto this stamp quite so well.
I think it is such a clever technique but who knew
a relatively easy technique would be so hard to accomplish?
Even though it took an inordinate amount of time I shall do this technique again
but not just yet as I need to recover!
Crafty Hugs x
Challenge......
Simply Less is more - Kissing Technique
