I recently attended Hero Arts Mixed Media Stamp Along and found it so informative! This card was inspired by @cheiron and her wonderful class. I used different products and colors so my card doesn’t look anything like Cheiron’s, but her class gave me the creative spark for my card. Sometimes it is fun to get inky and messy!
For this card, I was trying to simulate a Dove flying over a city at sunrise. I knew I wanted a bold background to contrast with the white Dove.
My Process:
- I put 5 sunrise colors of reactive ink (colors listed below) on my craft mat and spritzed with a bit of water and then painted bands of vertical color all over my watercolor cardstock panel. There is no right or wrong way just start painting! I dried and repeated two more times. During the process I also added drips of color.
- I love Hero Rub-On Transfers and I added parts of the city map from Collage Backgrounds to three spots on my background.
- Using Indigo and Splash Inks, I stamped the city grid from the Mixed Textures stamp set.
- I added texture with the Cobblestone Stencil. In some places I used just Gold Hero Paste and on others I rubbed just a bit of Black Hero Wax on the Stencil and then added Gold Hero Paste. I really love the black wax and gold paste combined together.
- Using a splatter box (for me a repurposed cardboard box) I added three layers of splatters and dried in between each color. White, Blue Shimmer and Orange Shimmer. I love the complexity the shimmer splatters add!
- I trimmed my background using the Rounded Rectangles Infinity Die set and then lightly inked the edges with Indigo Core Ink.
- I die cut my Dove and sentiment 3 times and then glued the components together.
Supplies Used:
- DF192 Dove and Olive Branch die
- Luxe Watercolor Paper
- Collage Backgrounds Hero Transfers
- Blue Hawaii Reactive Ink
- Splash Reactive Ink
- Blue Raspberry Reactive Ink
- Thistle Reactive Ink
- Taffy Reactive Ink
- Indigo Core Ink
- CM700 Mixed Textures Stamps
- SA195 Cobblestone Stencil
- Gold Hero Paste
- Black Hero Wax
- Palette Knife
- White Liquid Watercolor
- Blue Shimmer Metallic Spray
- Orange Shimmer Metallic Spray
- Rounded Rectangles Infinity Dies
- Compact Desktop Die Cutter
- The Peace Sentiment is from this month’s (February 2024) MMH Premium Kit.
This card has LOTS of layers, but it did not take as long to complete as I would have guessed….60-90 minutes.
What do you think?
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