Friday 16 August 2019

Splish, splash, splosh

My turn to set the challenge over at Daring Cardmakers this week and I'd like to see everyone gettting loose and unstructured with inks, watercolours or paints - sploosh, spray and splatter to your heart's content for a focal point, background or accents on your project.

I smooshed my DOX pad onto a piece of acetate, sprayed with water and used it to add drippy ink to my card base. The mistletoe is coloured with Copics, cut out and popped up with a bit of gel glue. The berries have some Glossy Accents for dimension.

And look - I used washi tape! Not sure I've ever used washi tape with anything like success but my local Poundland recently had tubs with six different rolls in each and I couldn't resist a couple of tubs - I think this striped one from the silver/grey/white selection goes well with the stripes in the mistletoe leaves.

I'm playing at Retro Rubber as well where the theme is "anything goes" as long as it features stamps more than a year old. Festive Foliage has been around since 2010.

Stamps:
Festive Foliage (mine is the original Waltzingmouse Stamps set with 2010 copyright, the same design is now available from Gina K with a few minor differences)
Sentiment from an ancient Skipping Stones set 

Paper:
Bristol board

Ink:
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide by Ranger (Cracked Pistachio)
Brilliance by Tsukineko (Pearlescent Chocolate)

Other:
Copic markers
Washi tape
Corner Chomper
Glossy Accents
Pinflair glue gel

Thanks for stopping by!

6 comments:

Dotty Jo said...

Wow! What a stunning card, Joanne, Jo x

Jan Clothier said...

Oh, Joanne, you've done it again! What a total beauty! Love your style - I'm fond of some ink smooshery myself. I agree that the washi tape you've used is going to be very useful. Thank you for playing along with us again at Retro Rubber Challenge. I think I'll have to look up Daring Cardmakers as I've not come across that challenge before.

Waverunner said...

Well that is one nice job of fussy cutting there! Smooth clean lines around a lot of curves but also the thin stems.

I need to use washi more myself.

hugs Margot

Debbie said...

great card - love it - cant believe we are thinking xmas cards already - but loving this idea

LeAnne said...

Gorgeous holiday card...you've certainly splished and splashed that background into something beautiful!! Stunning colors too! Thanks for sharing this with us at Retro Rubber this week!

Svenja said...

Fab card and great challenge, Joanne! Funny: those berries look a teensy little bit like eyeballs to me...