Fun with Backgrounds!

I'm so excited to be taking Online Card Classes' Background Check class this week.  I love their classes, but they are always hard for me to fit in doing the school year.  Having this one during the summer is perfect!  For the first day, we learned a lot about inked backgrounds, and I tried one of Jennifer McGuire's techniques for my card.  I first blended some distress inks on white cardstock with an ink blending tool.  Then I sprayed the My Creative Time Stripey Background stamp with Mister Huey's Color Mist Shine and then lay the inked cardstock directly onto the stamp.  When I next dried the cardstock with my heat gun, it gave the the striped images a faded, sparkling look.  I then added a few drops of water and dried them with a heat gun too.

After that I made my fish with My Creative Time's You're a Great Catch stamps and dies, coloring them with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens.  I then heat embossed the sentiment and bubbles onto the background.  Finally I added Glossy Accents to the bubbles and the eyes of the fish.

Products used on this card:

PTI Stamper's Select White Cardstock Canson Watercolor Paper MCT You're a Great Catch MCT Stripey Background Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Peacock Feathers Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Salty Ocean Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Chipped Sapphire Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82 Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001 *American Crafts Zing! OPAQUE White Embossing Powder Ranger Inkssentials MINI GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Adhesive .5oz GAC27898 *Studio Calico SHINE Mister Huey's Color Mists 101284

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