Welcome to the Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop for December – our last for this year where we have had the opportunity to share creativity together. Each month our team share inspiration with different themes curated by the one who keeps it all together – Angie McKenzie – who not only does all the organising but also keeps us inspired.

Today is a technique challenge where we could choose to try a new-to-us technique or re-visit one we hadn’t tried in a while. My biggest struggle was picking the technique! I listed a bunch of techniques that I had wanted to try over many years. There was a separate list of techniques that I hadn’t done in yonks!

Finally, I decided on the Ink Drip technique which I never tried and the Googling and Pinteresting started. Now, this ain’t no clean technique – as the name suggests. Get ready to get inky fingers.

I used Fluid 100 for ink dripping and experimented with some colour palettes and variations in sizes of the drips. The one I used for this card is actually the first one I tried and includes Melon Mambo and Granny Apple Green. Odd combination, yes, because I thought I had Real Red ink refill but it was actually Melon Mambo. LOL! Not to worry, it worked fine.

I added some ink refill which was diluted with a Water Painter at the top of the piece of Cardstock then tipped the Cardstock up so the ink dripped down. I wanted a bit more on my background panel so I added some ink blending in the white space with Granny Apple Green and then some splatters with a Water Painter. The panel I created was cut in half to use on this card.

I dripped down some plain water and poured Gold embossing powder onto the water. Then I heat embossed it for the pockets of Gold that’s inbetween. It is a little bit tricky when heat embossing on theFluid 100 because the Cardstock is porous and the gold didn’t show up as much as I would have liked. So I added some other gold elements to add some extra sparkle.

A fussy cut deer from the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper and a range of Ephemera were layered to complete this fun card.

Have you tried this technique? I’d love to know. If you haven’t, definitely give it a try. It’s easy and lots of fun and might be addictive so have lots of Watercolour Paper on hand.

Next on our hop is the wonderfully talended Cheryll Miller. I wonder what technique she is trying today? Take a look by clicking on the ‘Next Blog’ button below.

• Jan Clothier – NZ
• Leonie Stuart – AU
• Rochelle Laird-Smith – AU (you are here)
• Cheryll Miller – AU
• Danielle Kassing – NL
• Mikaela Titheridge – UK
• Annette Ball – CA
• Angie McKenzie – US
• Tricia Butts – US
• Lori Willcox – CA
• Cheryl Hamilton – US

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