Acrylic Batik

Herma's technique for the day was "Acrylic Batik"!  Just what I was going to do next week.  So I already had a couple of backgrounds prepared:

First of all I stamped Mike's Mosiac Frame on white and embossed with clear embossing ink.  Then I dabbed on some acrylic paint (Tim Holtz disress paint -- Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry)

 and then smeared it all over using this rubber tool.  You don't actually need one -- you can just use an old credit card or something but this was a new toy of mine so I wanted to use it.

 

Here is the result:

 I just made a simple card out of this to keep the background as the focal point.

 Here's another one using Mustard Seed and Salty Ocean:

Technique Thursday

This isn't really an official technique but recently I have been playing around with a few different techniques and have been going crazy making designer papers that I love the look of using scrap pieces.  I'm going to make a few cards here so I'll start with 4 scraps of white.

First I take my sponge dabber and randomly sponge on one colour (I used summer sun) in blotches leaving some white. 

Once that is done I take another colour (island indigo) and sponge it on the remaining white overlapping with some of the first colour to make another.

 Once the scraps are done to your liking take the first colour (yellow) and stamp with a background stamp.  I used Michael Strong's Cloisonné Mosaic Frame.  You can see the colour faintly in the background.

 Now take your stamp and fold it so when you ink it up with the darker colour it is only partially inked.

Stamp.

 Finish stamping the same way all over the scraps.

 Here are the cards I made with those scraps.

Michael Strong Card of the Day - Technique Thursday

Here is my card for Thursday.  It used the Faux Postage technique that I found on Splitcoaststampers.  I used Mike's Cloisonné Silhouette Panels (the butterfly one) to make the picture on the "stamps".  The embossing folder is called "Victorian" and other than the tiny white brads and the scissors I used to cut the "stamps" out everything is Stampin Up!  I tried it with and without a butterfly but I think the butterfly adds some brightness so I like that one the best.

I was also playing around with the background from yesterday and decided to do a few without the stamps.  The first one uses Mike's Mosaic Frame rather than the butterfly panel.  Here's what they look like: