so sorry - pub

Hello there! Once again, I let the blog go for over a week. :P It'll be nice once we start school again... a daily routine, consistency... always a good thing. :)

Here's a quick card that was done for SNR quite a while back. It was for an "I'm sorry" assignment. I remember being quite pressed for time making this... I think it was right around the time of my day on the Hero Arts blog, or maybe when I was helping to co-ordinate the Winter Wonderland Card crop. Regardless, I wasn't overly pleased with it... I'm still not. But it uses a cool technique:



The flowers were colored with markers and then spritzed with water for that mottled, watercolor look. The flecks were made with my Color Spritzer from SU, but you can make your own with a re-inker and an old toothbrush. Just put a couple drops of re-inker onto a non-porous surface like a CD case or coffee can lid. Lightly dip the bristles of your brush into the ink, gently tap off the excess, and then use your finger to flick the bristles so they splatter ink onto your project (practice on scratch paper first, to get the right distance from your paper). Oh, you might want to cover your work surface with a few newspapers or magazine pages to catch the stray splatters, and gloves are also a good thing here, otherwise you'll have ink under your nails for DAYS. ;) Of course the Color Spritzer from SU takes all the work out of achieving this look, but in a pinch, a toothbrush will suffice.

I finally got pics of my more recent cards - yes, I said CARDS, plural LOL - but I've decided to try submitting them! So I won't be posting them here just yet. ;) I've never had the courage to submit to a print magazine before. We'll see what happens. :)

Hope your week is off to a great start! Thanks so much for reading... I appreciate it so very much. XO

SUPPLIES: all paper (yo-yo yellow & mellow moss), stamps (upsy daisy & inspired by nature, can't remember the name of the set for the sentiment... it's from an old SAB set), and inks (markers - yo-yo yellow, mellow moss, always artichoke, chocolate chip) are SU.