Friday .... and the lull between the festivities of Christmas and New Year!

Morning readers,

I've a make to share with you today ... an Artist Trading Card using layers of ink and some mica powder ....

Materials used:

• ATC blank
• Snippets of card in white and pearl grey
• Using a blending sheet and water spray I "smooshed" Distress Inks: tumbled glass, salty ocean, stormy skies and blueprint sketch along with Blue Sky Lustre cosmic shimmer mica powder, and drying between layers, till I was happy with the colour patterns and separation
• Carabelle stencil "Fantasie" used, with a blending brush and stormy skies D.I. to add interest around the outer edge
• Crafty Roos images (from "Texture line trio" - December 2024 - NBUS) stamped using Versafine Clair nocturne and twilight inks
• Faber Castell metallic bronze marker (to colour in the Crafty Roos squares) and stardust stickles
• Tim Holtz (Idea-Ology "small talk) sticker
• Twinkling H2O mixed with water before using to create the splatter effect
• Lastly, a mini blending brush used with Distress Oxide black soot, to add a darker border around the outer edge
• A quick spritz of Crafters Companion Spray and Shine to protect the water based inks

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. NBUS - challenge No. 69 - USE NBUS
2. Stencil Fun - Dec challenge - ANYTHING GOES + (optional) WINTER / CHRISTMAS
3. CRAFT - challenge No. 745 - ANYTHING GOES