POLISHED STONE BACKGROUND
By Lois Bak
Supplies needed for this background are minimal:
Glossy cardstock
Cotton ball
Metallic Mixative
2 Regular Re-inkers
Fixative
Randomly drop Metallic Mixative around the glossy cardstock. I used gold mixative.
STEP TWO
Saturate the cotton ball with alcohol. Make sure it is good and wet.
STEP THREE
Drop the reinkers onto the cotton ball – two drops of each
color should be sufficient.
STEP FOUR
Dab the cotton ball onto the glossy cardstock.
STEP FIVE
Continue dabbing all over the cardstock. Make sure you dab on the metallic drops
sufficiently to break up those droplets.
STEP SIX
Continue dabbing until the whole piece of cardstock is
covered and the Metallic Mixative is diluted.
The wet cardstock will buckle; but, as the ink dries, it will flatten
out.
STEP SEVEN
Spray the cardstock with fixative.
STEP EIGHT
When the ink is dried, complete your card.
You can use any combination of colors you choose. Here is a piece of cardstock on which I used
red and turquoise re-inkers with gold Metallic Mixative.
Unfortunately, you can see that I didn’t dilute the gold mixative
enough.
Here are several other cards I made using this
technique. The first one uses mustard
yellow and tan re-inkers, with gold mixative.
On this card (which uses green and purple re-inkers with silver
mixative), I stamped directly onto the Polished Stone background with StazOn
ink.
1 comment:
What a fun and great BG tute! Thanks for posting it for us. =)
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