Tuesday April 20, 2021

Koi Fish In an Ink Smooshed Pond

Wamt to make a background that looks like it took hours? Ink smooshing gives you that effect and it's really fun! I love this. I used Distress Oxides today, but any water reactive ink will work. The final product looks like a tranquil pond. A perfect background for fish and botanicals. I also want to talk about this koi. He is so elegant and detailed. He's made from one die, which is pretty amazing.

The items I used for this background and card base are a piece of watercolor paper or heavyweight cardstock. a piece of green cardstock, two pieces of white cardstock, two colors of distress oxides or other ink for smooshing, blending brushes or other blending tools, a water sprayer, and an orage crayon or other coloring medium.

I started by randomly ink blending Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers oxides. The inks blend like butter on the watercolor paper!

I then put some of the ink onto my media mat and spritzed it with water. I drug the watercolor paper through the wet ink and patted it. I dried it with my heat tool then repeated until I liked the piece.

Once I was happy with my background, I dried it with my heat tool. This is the final product.

Once my "pond" was ready, I started working on it's contents. First I die cut this beautiful fish. He's from Hereo Arts. Then, I stamped three lilly pads and two flowers in assorted inks. I used Hero Arts, Gina K, and Lawn Fawn. I die cut them, too. I didn't like the white boarder around my plants, so I took the coordinating ink pad and ran it around the edges. You can't see it here, but I also ran the distress crayon on the koi's body, fins, and tail. I left his head white.

This is my final card. I popped up the lily pads that had the flowers. The fish is unique in that he has a boarder around his head, fins and tail. I just glued those down as well as the body. The result of this is a 3D effect of those fins and tail. They automatically pop up. Lastly, I stamped the sentimnt 'wishing you love'. I hope you try making this card. If you have any questions about specific dimensions or items used that are not covered here, please leave your question in the comment section.

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