Wednesday, July 14, 2010

With Heartfelt Sympathy

The Just Us Girls challenge this week is a technique challenge, Ink Spray Smash.  You put ink on a glossy piece of card stock and then spray it with water and "smash" two pieces of paper together.  I was really surprised at how quickly the ink dried on the glossy paper.  It didn't seem logical to me.  Not sure why I picked the colors I did for the background ink, but I thought it would be a good color for my PTI tree stamps.  I embossed the trees and the sentiment so that the stood out a little more.  A clean and simple sympathy card popped up for a little extra dimension.

It's hump day! Happy Wednesday!

Ingredients:  PTI Kraft Paper and Twine; SU Glossy White Paper; PTI Stamps; Ranger Distress Ink:  Broken China and Peeled Paint

6 comments:

AKiteFlier said...

Just lovely - I like the somewhat monochromatic look you achieved. CAS was certainly appropriate with this design. Thanks for getting inky (literally) with Just Us Girls this week. :-)

Kathryn B said...

I just love the simplicity of your card Lynn and so appropriate for a sympathy card! Beautiful job!

Thanks for getting down and inky with Just Us Girls this week!

Diane Jaquay said...

I love the background you created with this technique Lynn!! The trees look beautiful against it! This is a really lovely sympathy card.

Melissa said...

I love your ink spray smash! It turns out so cute, but it's hard to think of the end picture when you are first designing with this technique I feel like...Yours turned out so pretty and serene though! Awesome job!!

Andrea M said...

Love your take on the inky technique :) The green is so striking and I really like how the brown trees look against it - great job! Thanks so much for playing along with Just Us Girls! We appreciate your support!

Maria said...

What a nice sympathy card. I know those kind are always so hard to make. Nice job with the techinque and thanks so much for playing along with JUGS this week.