Thinking Inking cards!

Hi ya everyone! Been ages since I posted.....life has been uber busy lately. I did finally sit down and watch a bunch of Jennifer McGuire's thinking Inking classes at 2Peas in a Bucket recently and just became enthralled with the block background technique!

So I started playing a bit Friday evening with different inks and found some colors I really liked together and made a couple of quick attempts at a cool background. For this card I made on Saturday morning for the 90 minute challenge over at Hero Arts I used vintage photo, spiced marmalade, and shabby shutters.




I overstamped the background using my new Old letter writing stamp from Hero Arts. I then got out my favorite embossing folder and used that on some orange cardstock. I just sponged on a bit of the vintage photo on to some kraft cardstock for the base. The tag was cut out of some scrap test runs from the night before and the metal embellie is actually just a flat washer dyed with alcohol ink.

Then today I played  bit more with this block technique trying out some different colors.....was going for a soft wintery look here. I used dusty concord and tumbled glass and hit the acrylic block with a whopping dose of Perfect Pearls.





My acrylic block was literally  dripping wet as I stamped it....even stamped it off a few times on some more paper. The background panel turned out realy cool........it has so much shimmer and shine and I love the whole smeared look to it. Pulled out a barely used Hero Arts snowman stamp and used the dusty concord on him too. I'm not really thrilled with the way this whole card turned out.......but that's what you get when your 6 year old won't leave you alone for 5 minutes and you can't concentrate- (that's how it's been around my house lately.....not much ME time at all- waaaah!)

Hope you are all having a wonderful relaxing Sunday and hope your week ahead will be great!

Inky Hugs, Anne