This has to be one of my favourite background techniques to do and every time I do it, I get excited.
The finished effect is so cool and looks like a work of pure art.
Firstly, for this technique to work well, I used watercolour card, the smooth kind but you can use any white card as long as it’s fairly stiff. You’ll be sloshing alot of water onto it so it needs to stand up to all that wet!
Clear emboss your design onto the card. I used the Repeat after me and Funky flowers stamp sets for my tag.
Spray a little water onto the background and using watercolour paint and a brush, touch the background in places and watch the colours run. I like to get it fairly wet and hold the tag up to watch it run down as I love the effect of the paint collecting in the embossing. Let this dry.
For the next step you need a fairly hot iron and some brown parcel paper (printer paper will do). Place the paper over the top of your design and iron until all the embossing has melted off onto the paper.
You’ll be left with a totally smooth surface again.
This second tag was over stamped after ironing with the circle from the Deck The Halls stamp set.
I used the same technique to create the background on this card and over stamped the butterfly after ironing.
GORGEOUS, Jaine!! I’ve tried this with inks and then wiped it off with a wipe, but I’ll have to try to iron trick!! Love it!
This is totally cool! Very inspiring!! Love your choice of colors too and that circle stamp is just awesome! I NEED that one!
Wow, this is stunning, I absolutely love it and am going to try this out asap,
thanks for sharing,
Em.x
I love this technique! Striking effect, beautiful projects.
With you, Jaine, I’m always sure to learn something new! Will have to try this technique as I just love it!
I’ve never tried this before. What a cool technique! Your tags are awesome!
absolutely beautiful, Jaine!!!! LOVE this technique as well.
Thank you for your kind words ladies. I’m glad you like them.
Awesome technique! Thank you for sharing it with all of us
this is lovely.