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Monochromatic Crushed Curry – Ink Smooshing Technique

Today’s Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Insta Hop features Crushed Curry. It’s only lately that I have grown to love this colour. I used to find it too bright but now I’m loving the vibrancy of this colour and it’s beautiful shade of yellow.

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This card started with a die cut circle from Fluid 100 Cardstock. On this, I I ink smooshed the background.

HOW TO CREATE AN INK SMOOSHED BACKGROUND

  • Pat your ink pad on a piece of acetate (I use the backing for the photopolymer stamps)
  • Spritz the ink with water
  • Curve the acetate and work the centre on the Fluid 100 Cardstock
  • Ink, spritz and repeat the process, moving the acetate around
  • Leaving it to dry between applications will create dark puddles and add texture

For added texture, I ink smooshed Black Memento ink on the right hand side. Once dry, I stamped the lined image and splattered some dots with the Dark Black Stampin’ Blend Combo.

On top of all this I also added some splatters using White Kraft ink with a Water Painter which added some lovely contrast against the Crushed Curry.

The flowers were watcercoloured in Crushed Curry ink refill and some shading was added on the leaves in Smoky Slate. A Paper Butterfly Accent embellished with a Sparkle Gem adds a pretty finishing touch to this card.

I hope you have enjoyed my creation today and give ink smooshing a try for some inky, messy, fun. If you live in Australia you can shop with me in my Online Store. A product list is below to help you create your Shopping List. If you have any questions, please get in touch with me.

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AWOW Blog Hop – Watercolour Smooshing

Hello and welcome to the last Around the World on Wednesday blog hop for 2024. I’m so glad you have been able to join me here in Melbourne. If it’s your first time here I hope you enjoy what you see and are inspired to create something beautiful. Our AWOW team is based around the world and on the second Wednesday of each month we share creative inspiration for you.

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Our theme this month is a focus on Watercolour Smooshing technique. This is a fun technique which yields different results everytime. You require some acetate (our clear Window Sheets are perfect) for this. Generally, I’ve created backgrounds with this technique. For today’s card I contained it within the window from the Garden Meadow dies. I wanted it to look like a little scene through the window and I used the technique to create that.

The Garden Meadow bundle comes with lots of cute images to build the scene. I’ve just got this bundle and I was just wanting to use the gum boots. How cute are they? I pretty built they rest of my card around them!

To add some balance and so the window wasn’t just sitting in the middle of nowhere, I added a piece of Soft Sea Foam Designer Series Paper. I left the top of my card clear to show the technique and built up my scene at the bottom.

For all the details on how I created this card, take a look at the video below.

Thank you for stopping by and I’m sure once finish looking through all the ideas you will be getting inky with the Watercolour Smooshing technique. Next on our hop is Danielle Kassing and I can’t wait to see what she has created.

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