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Today I'm sharing a few cards created using my new Intersecting Lines background. It's currently sold out, but if you need it, just click the 'Notify Me When Back in Stock' button, enter your email, and you'll get a notification when it's back.
I 'colored' the background by masking off different strips, using the different lines as guides. You need to pick colors that blend well together otherwise you can get a muddy effect. I used just three shades of ink: Bubblegum, Lilac, and Marine.
I kept my inking very light so that you can really see where the colors are layered and nothing is too overpowering.
Super easy and relaxing to create.
I finished things off with the Yay You sentiment which was die cut in black. The shadow piece was die cut with white and then lightly inked with Lilac.
These next two cards feature a technique I've used several times in the past.
I start by stamping on my colored cardstock with a dark ink in that same color family.
Next, I use Copics to color different sections. I chose two shades of each color using the lighter for the areas that have just one set of lines, and the darker for areas that have the intersecting lines. For the red card, I used R29 and R39. For the green card, I used G09 and G29.
Here's what my cardstock looked like when I was done coloring:
What I want to emphasize is that the coloring is nowhere near perfect, but it doesn't matter at all.
Once the coloring was done, I placed my cardstock back into the stamping platform, but this time I inked with Versamark and gold embossed.
That embossing covers up all of those coloring imperfections.
I added gold foiled and die cut sentiments using the new Elegantly Modern Christmas foil sentiments and dies.
These were popped up with foam tape. A smattering of gold sequins completed the look.
As you can see, there is a bit of a trick in picking out the colors. The red definitely did not have as strong a contrast as the green.
This is a fun technique that is not hard to achieve. Hope you will try it!
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