Delivering Wishes

 My first project with the June Betterpress Society plate, Delivering Wishes, was to try ink smooshing!

I pressed the plate on regular white cardstock with Betterpress black ink, then picked my colour combos of four coordinating inks.

I put some ink on my work surface, spritzed with water, then picked it up with a piece of acetate, and smooshed it onto my image, intentionally adding the ink on top of the shapes.

I cut the image out with the stitched rectangle from the Postage Rectangle and Tag dies from Spellbinders, and cut a larger shaped piece out of coordinating cardstock to mount it on.

The sentiments from the set were pressed on the same colours of cardstock.

After cutting them out with the coordinating dies, I cut two more out of black cardstock and stacked them all together so the sentiments would have more height.  I added a few iridescent sequins.

You can get a Betterpress Society subscription from The Papercrafter's Workshop.

Reverse Foil Rose

I tried a bit of an experiment today!  I used the reverse foil of a background plate that didn't turn out very well.  There were sections of it that were quite good, and others not so much - but I was hoping it would give a bit of a distressed vibe.

I first used rose gold foil to glimmer a piece of peach cardstock with the Art Deco plate from Pinkfresh Studio (love this!), and used two colours of Pinkfresh ink to colour it with the coordinating stencils.

I used the Build A Flower: Rose dies from Altenew to cut out the base layer of the rose and leaves from my unsuccessful reverse foiling.  Then cut the remainder of the pieces out from peach and pale green cardstock.  I used the same ink colours to darken the layers, and assembled my flowers.  The sentiment was also layered on the reverse foil panel, and attached with 3D foam adhesive.  I spattered some rose gold metallic paint on my card.

Not my favourite card, but the process was fun.