Floral Distressing

Hello again.  Time for my Tuesday installment.  Today is a bit different.  I love techniques and spend a great deal of time "playing'.  My favorite application is to make backgrounds, so that is what I did.
Take a look at the card, and I will share the process.

This card was made with just backgrounds and then the image was stamped and colored.  Both the focal image and the background was the mostly the same inks but on different papers.

Close up of Tag:  double click on image to see better

Here is the background that is hard to see on the finished card.  Using distress stain, I placed them in puddles on my craft mat.  This group is Abandoned Coral, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feather, Frayed Burlap.  Then in the center of all of these stains added picket fence and ran Water Color paper through the puddles.  In this instance the paper was wet.

For the tag, I did the same, but on a manilla tag.  Inks were: Abandoned Coral, Cracked Pistachio and Fossilized Amber with Picket Fence Stain.  The tag was dry and I quickly dried to keep the Picket Fence "White".  Then I stamped in a black Pigment ink with this stamp:Black Eyed Susans and colored them carefully, just to enhance the color but stay with the basic background palette.  
The Picture does not do this card justice.  It finishes as an A2 size, top folding.  Perfect for any occasion.

You and me: Sweet Kitties by Josette

Hello again.  I am back with another Tuesday Card.  This one is also from the April release.  You can see the stamp set here:  What's New Pussycat?

This turned out sweet.  The background is one that I made as an exercise in finding the right color for another project.  The posting where I describe the making of the background  can be found Here.

Just scroll down and you will see the background for this card.  

After the background was completed, the rest of the card was straightforward.  Cut a sentiment out of White and mounted it with a piece of left over purple cardstock.  Created a mat from a white textured paper.  The Kitties were colored with Copics and take front and center stage.  All that was needed was a purple bow to tie it all together.  Sweet isn't it.

Remember to visit Sweet Stamps for all your paper crafting needs.

Until Next week,

Happy Crafting,

Josette