Using a three colour Oxide Blend

 

Good Wednesday Morning Ladies, 

We had a very dark & dreary day yesterday, we didn't actually really see any of the rain that was promised, it tried once or twice but thankfully it didn't come to anything although the garden could do with a good soaking.  

Lucy fancied trying a different garden centre yesterday,  we went to Dobbies in Cirencester, it's a huge garden centre that has a Lakeland shop ( which I really like) it also has a big childrens play centre so it was really busy,   they aren't daft are they, these garden centre chains, the restaurants are all usually quite overpriced, they attract parents with children by having the play centres so that the parents can still shop while the children are occupied,  customers that would otherwise be elsewhere entertaining their children in the school holidays.  It works too,  the car park barely had a space.  Lucy's eyes lit up when she saw the huge indoor plant area,  it was far bigger than any other one we've been to,  we must have been in there for about an hour and a half!!  Lucy picked two plants, one of which she has been looking for for a while.  I got another terracotta pot for my succulents and another small succulent so that I had an odd number in my new pot.  (Thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it) 🤣😂

Today's card was a result of my playing with one colour blends,  while I was looking for some inspiration I saw a card that caught my eye,  I didn't have the materials the original card featured so I did my own version,  I used Wilted Violet, Villainous Potion and Black Soot Oxide inks to create a blend from light at the bottom to dark at the top,  after drying I tore two pieces of paper to give a narrow, irregular  section from bottom to top, at an angle,  I laid the torn paper on my piece and then used my splatter brush to spritz white paint across the piece to look like a 'Milky way/galaxy', (not the chocolate) 🤣, after drying I stamped some trees (Inkylicious) to the foreground, making sure the trees were in that lighter section of inking.  I stamped some little mounds at the base of the trees to ground them. 

Now... confession time, I originally stamped the sentiment straight on the card, however,  it didn't stamp perfectly,  no matter how i tried I couldn't rectify it, white embossing on a dark background is recipe for disaster at the best of times,  I was gutted as the blending had taken my ages and a lot of ink, so feeling frustrated I tossed it in the bin!   When I got back from garden centre yesterday I sat at my desk and the piece was glaring at me from the top of my card & paper bin,  I picked it up and thought I refuse to waste it, so I cleaned and dried the sentiment stamp that I originally used, I tested it with black ink,  it was ok  so I inked another piece of card with same inks and dried it, I inked the stamp in Versafine and stamped it, added white embossing powder and heat set.  I die cut it and added a black mat and placed it over the original sentiment.  I mounted the card onto a narrow white mat and then onto a black card base.  It's by no means perfect,  I do like how the lighter ink makes it look like the trees are illuminated by the stars.  

It just seemed a shame to bin it. ! 

I hope that you all have a good day, 

Love & hugs to all, 

Sandra xxx