I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are ready for our second week with the Buttons challenge at Inky Paws!
I had a lot of fun making this card!
The cool feature of the resist spray is the varied texture it leaves on your paper. So in order to replicate that, I decided to try splattering water all over my card front and then applying clear embossing powder and heat setting it. The water splatters offer different size droplets in a completely unpredictable and random pattern. I did this several times, I think about 4 times before I got the look and quantity of splatters I wanted.
Once it was all heat set, I took several colors of distress inks in a rainbow order and swiped them across my card front. The embossing powder resisted the ink and the texture of the watercolor paper help give some great detail to the swipes. I buffed off any ink that may have been sitting on top of the embossing powder and then cut that panel out with a stitched rectangle die.
Using the Believe in Unicorns set, I stamped and colored in one of the images and then trimmed it out. I embossed a sentiment onto a piece of vellum and layered my unicorn on there as well.
Then came the mission of the buttons. I have a serious lack of buttons in my stash so I decided to do what I always used to do and make them! I used a 1/2 inch punch and inked up a bunch of papers in the same colors as the background. Stacked 4 high and then used an eyelet punch to make the holes! I clear embossed each button to get that shine and then tied a little string through the center of each button and lined them up across the middle of my card before layering my little vellum focal piece over top.
I hope you'll join us for this fun buttons challenge! Just a few days left!!
Thanks for visiting! <3
This is so gorgeous! I love the rainbow colors and how you coordinated them with the buttons! Super cool!
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