Altenew Easy Ink Blending Techniques

Hello and welcome back! I’m glad you dropped by because I have two cards that I made while taking the Altenew Easy Ink Blending Techniques taught by Amy Lee. This is another step in my AECP and I thoroughly enjoyed the class because it taught me some new things and reminded me of techniques I already knew. The ink blending class really focused on how to add color and depth to cards by adding blends of color in strategic places, blending over heat embossing, faux water coloring and so much more. Let’s take a look at my first card.

I was so inspired by Amy, that I actually ordered the same stamp (Sketchy Cities America 2) she used in lesson 4 where I learned about the emboss resist technique. This is probably one of my favorite techniques because I love watching the powder melt. I will never get tired of it. Basically for this technique, you stamp your image with embossing ink, like Versamark after treating the panel with an anti static tool. This prevents the powder from sticking to areas you don’t intend on embossing. You then apply the powder and melt it with a heat gun. Amy chose to do her scene in a daylight setting, so I changed mine up to a classic sunset scene. One thing, that Amy taught me about Seattle is that it has a waterfront, so that is why I blended the dark blue on the bottom. Adding the blue for the water, is what I mean by strategically adding blending for an effect. For my blending I chose a yellow, orange, burgandy, purple, and dark blue inks to form the sky. Once happy with the blended I splatter white acrylic paint in the sky to add the stars. I cut the panel down to 3.75 x5.5 inches so that I could add the horizontal paper to the top and bottom of the scene. I think that added just little something special to it. What do you think?

Onto my second card. This is completely different from the one above, but falls under easy ink blending too. For this one I applied what I learned in lesson 5 which was faux water coloring.

I used the out line layer of the Hibiscus Bouquet stamp set to create the scene. I stamped each bloom with Veramark ink onto the smooth side of Canson XL water color paper and then embossed it with white powder. Just a little tip when you are overlapping images. Any image you want to be on top or prominent you should stamp first and then emboss it before moving onto the next image. This is true with any image or silhouette. Next I repeated the process with the leaves, and then the ink blending began. I used a combination of Simon Hurley inks, and distress inks for this technique.

The first layer of Simon Hurley colors were blended with a foam applicator until happy with the colors, and then misted the paper to get the inks moving to form the loose water color effect. I then dried my panel and applied strategically the Distress inks to add extra dimension and texture to the flowers. It really is a fun and easy technique to do. I honestly couldn’t wait to get inky after watching the class. Lastly I stamped the Miss You sentiment from Coral Sunset stamp set and added a few gem stones to make this 5×7 card.

Okay I think this wraps it up for me. If you have any questions, please let me know. Also I’d love to know what you like about the projects. Have a great day!

Just a small disclaimer! All items used in all of my projects are (or have been) purchased with my own funds, but this does not include design team items that I have received or otherwise stated.

Until next time… keep crafting!!