Techniques group - 9th February 2019

We will be doing 5 projects at the techniques class, all of which can be made into cards by using them as toppers.

Card 1

• Put the aperture mask onto the piece of card.
• Place the wavy line mask across the centre of the aperture.
• Place the sun in the sky where you want it to be.
• Using the inks and the daubers, colour the sky, putting some yellow around the sun and blending up to it with blue.
• Remove the sun mask and lightly colour it.
• Remove the wavy line mask and stamp your hills and trees over the edge of it.
• Using wavy line mask, create lines across the bottom half of the aperture using pale blue ink. Make sure that you ink round the bottom half of the aperture.
• Stamp tree onto right hand side and animals in centre.
• Using the clear glitter brush pen, add some “Z” strokes across the landscape.
• Remove the aperture mask and stamp the sentiment underneath the circle.

Card 2

• Stamp the jar onto the card, and also onto the yellow post it paper.
• Cut out the parts that you want to see through and put the mask over the stamped image on the card.
• Stamp the bunch of flowers and stamp it onto the card over the top of the jar, so that the stems appear to be in the water.
• Remove the mask.
• Using coloured pencils, colour in the image.
• Colour the water a very faint blue and go over with glitter brush pen.

Tag 3

• Using the distress inks, apply colour randomly to the tag.
• Spritz with water and dry.
• Using stencil, add ink where required and dry.
• Stamp leaves in greens on corners.
• Stamp writing in brown across centre.
• Make sure everything is dry, and then stamp wreath and sentiment using versamark.
• Emboss using gold powder.
• Go around the edge with gold gilding wax.

Paper 4

•  Apply a water wash with a big brush over the whole card.
• Using watercolour inks, apply colours randomly
• Spritz with water and dab with kitchen roll.
• Sprinkle brusho powders of choice onto surface of card and spritz again until effect you want is achieved.
• Make sure the card is dry and then stamp the flowers in versamark ink where required and emboss with gold powder.
• Take some ink and the pearlescent paint and using a paintbrush, splat it onto the card. Allow to dry.
• This can now be used as background paper, or can be diecut.

Card 5

• Take the yellow post it paper and tear off a strip as long as the card is wide.
• Cut it in half lengthways.
• Make sure that the straight edges are in the middle and apply across the card, leaving a stripe across the centre.
• Apply distress inks randomly and blend together.
• Dry.
• Using versamark ink, stamp butterflies randomly across the stripe.
• Using the soft brush, apply the mica powder over the top of the stamped butterflies and polish with a tissue/kitchen paper.
• Remove masks, and stamp the sentiment underneath.