Tuesday 1 July 2014

Happy experimenting...

Get this - twice in two days!!

Hello people!

I'm here today with a card for CAS(E) This Sketch.  When I saw the sketch I thought it was really wide open to interpretation, but then what happened?  I sat down to make a card and would you believe...my mojo did a runner!!  How typical!  I had the whole of Saturday evening to myself to make cards and could I come up with anything - NO!!  I was beyond disappointed  :(

Then I stopped TRYING to make a card and just started experimenting and this is what happened...


I started by splodging some Distress Ink onto one of my acrylic blocks and then spritzing it with water and squishing it onto some card.  It didn't turn out quite how I thought but I'm happy with it!  

Then I wanted something else to go with it and I saw the roll of scrim on my desk and thought 'hmm?!' For those of you who don't know what scrim is (sorry if I'm being patronising!) it's the tape plasterers use to place over the joints between plasterboards before they skim.  It's like a sticky back nylon mesh.  I took a piece and stuck it to my acrylic block and then inked it with Versamark and stamped it onto the front of the card.  I was in a particularly impatient mood, so I had dried the Distress Ink smoosh with my heat gun already :)  I then heat embossed the scrim stamping with WOW! Ebony powder.  The sentiment is embossed in WOW! Black Glint, but you can't really see that in the photograph - sorry!

I like how my makeshift scrim stamp turned out!  And considering I had exactly ZERO mojo, I think this is OK  ;)

Again. last minute Larry is off to enter this into the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge before the deadline closes!



Thanks for stopping by ;)










Supplies
Card:      Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Smooth Grey
Stamps: Stamping All Day - Art Deco Birthday
Ink:        Distress Ink - Broken China, Crushed Olive; VersaMark
Other:    WOW! - Ebony, Black Glint e/p; Scrim; rhinestones

7 comments:

  1. Fabulous. I love how this all came together Sian.

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  2. Love that background!
    Super card
    Chrissie

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  3. Sian, I think this is MORE than okay! ;-) Great background! Great card! :-)

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  4. I LOVE it, no disappointment at all!!!!!

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  5. Oh, this looks fabulous! Fantastic take on the sketch!

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  6. Wonderful abstract take on the sketch!
    I love the colors and the different elements!

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  7. Nope, not OK, not even a little bit; rather...brilliant and fabulous! I quite love the slurry of splotchy pastel-ish colours from your acrylic block, and the scrim adds a wonderful contrast. The sentiment banners so work here! Zero mojo? I'd say more like oodles....
    Hugs~c

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