Sunday, December 2, 2012

Non Traditional Christmas

I am on a bit of a roll today, completing my second challenge entry!  This time I am entering in Just Add Ink colour combo, and Sunny Challenges sketch  and non-traditional challenge.

I got inspiration for this card from the lovely Liz Hicks, I saw her do a presentation at Stampin' Up! Convention this year and then more recently she created a stunning scrapbook layout with a technique that I think I described as "sponge, partial stamp, bleach, sponge, stamp"!  Basically you just keep building colour and images  until you are happy with the result.  I used a little stamp to stamp bleach over the right hand panel, dropped some bleach down the left hand panel, splattered some ink using my spritz tool on all layers.  I also did some sanding on the left hand panel to remove some of the colour.  

I really love how this turned out and am grateful to Liz for exposing me to such a fun, and messy, technique.  You can check out her blog here: Liz Hicks - DizzyINk Inkspires you!

Happy Stamping

7 comments:

  1. I like your non-traditional Christmas card Monique, you have blended the colours together well. Thanks for playing at Just Add Ink this week.

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  2. Monique, a beautiful card. The blending and bleaching and stamping and bleaching sounds like fun. Thanks for playing along at Sunny Challenges and Creations this week.

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  3. This is truely a stunning card Monique. I love the technique/s you have used to create the finished result - must give it a go myself. Thanks so much for joining us this week at Sunny Challenges & Creations.

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  4. Great stamping - I like how you have put the colours all together - very effective technique. Chantell JAI

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  5. This is really pretty, Monique - and looks like it was a heap of fun to make! Thanks for joining us at Just Add Ink this week; I love how you've used the challenge colours. Very clever!

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  6. Congratulations Monique, your beautiful card has been selected as our Ray of Sunshine for this week. Once again, thanks so much for joining us at Sunny Challenges & hope to see more of your lovely work in the future. Have a wonderful Christmas, a happy & safe New Year.

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