CT Ann - Trust the Process

 Trust the Process 

By CT Ann  

Don’t know about you but when I don’t get into my craft space for a while my mojo goes awol!!! After a few day’s absence from my desk, I started creating a few backgrounds & eventually a little spark of mojo showed itself … thankfully! Sometimes you just have to trust the process & your mojo might just show itself  :)

Stamps: Sketchy Flowers #1 • Freehand Borders #1

Inkables: 6x6 Distressed Diamonds 

D’Inkables: set 1

Distress Oxide Inks: Broken China & Fossilized Amber

Bee Crafty Stamp & Stencil Tape

Wordy Stickers 2B

Micron Pen 

White Pen 

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Mixed Media Paper ( 9cm x 14cm )

https://www.beecrafty.net/

Blend Broken China Distress Oxide ink in opposing corners of the mixed media card…

 Add Fossilized Amber diagonally between the two remaining corners… 

Overlap the two colours gradually giving a third colour, green … 

Spritz water into your hand & splatter onto card, this gives bigger splats! Let the water ‘sit’ for a couple of minutes & then dab with some kitchen towel to absorb the excess…

Press each of the ink pads on to a craft mat & spritz lightly with water, pick up the ‘beads’ of colour with a small sheet of acetate & dab on to the background… 

Repeat this a few times, drying in between each stage, creating a mottled effect… 

When it’s dry & you’re happy with it add some Fossilized Amber through the Distressed Diamond Inkable… 

Next add Broken China through the hexagonal D’Inkable from set 1… 

Tear a strip of Stamp & Stencil tape long enough to go across the card (portrait). Stamp one or more of the borders from Freehand Borders #1 set, in Versafine , across the tape to create your own washi tape… 

Tear another piece of tape, lay approximately where you want your washi to sit & add another border above & below the tape, add your washi… 

Stamp the larger Daisy from Setchy Flowers, on to a separate piece of card & cut out… 

Add hexagonal lines using a black Micron pen & the D’Inkable . Then add some marks using a white pen… 

Choose a sentiment, mine was from the Words set 2B & I fixed it to a white piece of card… 

I added more borders around the edges to frame the focal points… 

Add the flower with either dimensional glue or  foam pads, with a little bit if black thread behind it… 

Finally Mount this onto a slightly bigger piece of white card & then a 5” x 7” card … 

A lengthy post but I hope you enjoyed it!! 

Thank you for stopping by… Ann xxx