Ink Resist Background

by Hero Arts |

Item # 392232323P209
Intermediate Under 1 Hour

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

  • Hero Arts Flower Garden Bold Prints
  • Hero Arts Wonderful Stamp & Cut
  • Hero Arts Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink
  • Hero Arts Blue Hawaii Reactive Ink
  • Hero Arts Grape Slush Reactive Ink
  • Hero Arts Small Trio Acrylic Blocks
  • Black Ink
  • White Cardstock
  • Black Cardstock
  • Watercolor Paper
  • Paintbrush
  • Water Bottle
  • Craft Mat (or any non-porous surface)
  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Liquid Adhesive

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Trim a piece of white cardstock to 4 1/4"x 11". Fold in half to create top-folding card base.
  2. Trim a piece of watercolor paper to 4 1/4"x 5 1/2".
  3. Stamp Flower Garden background on watercolor panel using Embossing & Watermark Ink.
  4. Apply Blue Hawaii and Grape Slush Reactive Inks to a non-porous work surface and spritz with water.
  5. Smoosh the stamped watercolor panel in the ink until completely covered. Allow to dry.
  6. Trim stamped panel down to 4 1/4"x 4". Adhere to the bottom portion of the white card base.
  7. Die cut the word "wonderful" three times from black cardstock. Adhere all three layers together using liquid glue.
  8. Adhere die cut word to card base with liquid adhesive.
  9. Stamp coordinating messages to sentiment using black ink.

JOANN HACKS:

  • Use a heat tool to speed up the drying time of your background.
  • Don't have a craft mat? Recycle some plastic packaging to use for your non-porous work surface.

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