Hello there crafty friend!
Crystal here from Tawny Owl Paperie and I’m back with another Technique Tuesday! Can you believe it’s December already? Sadly, that means it’s my final blog post of 2023. I hope that you’ve been inspired to get inky and maybe even played along with some of the techniques that I’ve shared. If you missed some and want to check them out, you can do that here.
I do love getting inky and the technique I’m sharing today is another fun inky technique called Salad Spinner Art. This technique is wonderful for making awesome backgrounds! Lots of fun for mixing up colors. And can be used with a whole bunch of mediums.
I made a couple fun holiday cards using two of the four backgrounds that I created using the Salad Spinner Art.
Santa Card
For the first background I used Sepia, Tangerine, and Alizarin Crimson Color Burst. I thought it was a fun mix of colors for a holiday card and added a couple touches of gold by heat embossing the sentiment from Cute Santa and adding some gold foil strips of paper.
Stamped Cute Santa with Black Amalgam ink and colored with the following Copic markers:
Skin: E000, E00, E11, E04
White: C00, C1, C3
Red: R20, R14, R46
Black: N1, N3, N5, N7
Holly & Berries: YG11, G24, G46, R59
Fussy cut Cute Santa and cleaned up the edges by coloring them with a black marker. All the layers are adhered flat to an A2 card base for easy mailing.
Snowflake Card
Card number two uses the last panel that I created with some fun shimmery pigments I got a bit ago. I’ve been anxious to play with them and boy, were they fun!
Continuing with the copper color in the background which is very light, I decided to heat emboss the Blanket of Snow Background stamp. I used a clear embossing pad and copper embossing powder. And for even a bit more copper… I heat embossed the season’s greetings sentiment.
I die cut the season’s greetings from the Greetings of the Season {die set} from a scrap piece of white card stock. Pressed the sentiment into the clear embossing ink using my tweezers doing one side of the sentiment at a time so I had a place to hold the sentiment with my tweezers. Quick tip… be sure to let the melted embossing powder cool before touching! Not only does it hurt a smidge, but it can smudge up the pretty embossing. I speak from experience! LOL
Video Link
I wasn’t able to record my card making but you can check out my process in creating the backgrounds I used for my cards plus two more backgrounds that I didn’t get to play with just yet. Check it out here… Salad Spinner Art | Technique Tuesday | Unity Stamp Co.
Two very different holiday cards using one fun technique! I’ve had a blast the last 12 months sharing some fun techniques with you all. I hope you’ve enjoyed them! If you give this fun technique a try, I’d love to see what you create so please share your cards in the Unity Show & Tell group and tag me. Have an ink-tastic day!
Inky Hugs,
Crystal
