I had lots of fun experimenting to make this card for my dad for Fathers’ Day. I had no idea what I’d end up with when I started out but I wanted to have play with making a background using reinkers and water.

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I simply dropped a few droplets of Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive and Daffodil Delight ink onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock then spritzed it repeatedly with water. And I mean repeatedly! The droplets were diluted and blown around the cardstock, merging and mottling as they went. The cardstock got so wet I had to dry it off with a heat gun. And the colours soaked through so much that there was no longer an identifiable difference between back and front!

Word of warning, this is one messy process!!!!! The ink splatters up from the card when you spritz it, it soaks through everything and you get very inky fingers if you touch the wet cardstock.

I really wish I’d taken a photo of the background piece before I’d done anything else to it because it really didn’t look like much. A bit of a murky mess with some bright patches here and there. I nearly ditched it as a failure. But, as I’m always telling people, you should NOT judge a background before it has a foreground. You’ll never be happy with it while you’re focusing on the imperfections that will disappear once there’s something else to catch your eye. So I thought I’d better give it a chance. And that’s where Dictionary came to the rescue.

Dictionary
(130348) Wood $30.95
(130351) Clear $24.95

To turn this mess into a card I simply stamped the fabulous Dictionary stamp in stamped off Basic Black ink, then added some sponged edges, some Big Shot letters and some twine. With a tiny bit of White Gel Pen to finish.

I was really pleased with the colourful, masculine, card that came out of it. And I think Dad was too. Even though he forgot why I would be giving him a card at all!

Cheers

Genna

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