First up was a tag - I swiped a couple of distress ink pads over the baking paper, then misted the ink with water. The tag was then wiped over the mixture, dried with a heat gun, and re-swiped. You can see here the baking paper with beads of ink and the wet tag.
Click here for a video by Tim Holtz using the distress inks in this way. The resulting dry back and front are a lovely mix of colours. 
I then used the small flourish mask (from the Regal set) to decorate the tag front. 
I just used a little VersaMark ink cube for this because that was the nicest colour I had to stand out against the dark background. In Tim Holtz' YouTube of using the masks, he throws all the surrounds away. But as you can see, you can use the left-over bits as well like a stencil to get the opposite image on the back! 
Then I wanted to have a go with the borders - again I inked using the mask, 
and also the leftovers
....then I finished the journal page.
Oh I like these a lot Lynette - specially the journal page. I've been ummming and ahhhhing about getting some masks for ages, but these have pretty much convinced me!
ReplyDeleteThe applique quilt looks adorable - I bet there's a lot of work in it... loving the checkerboard too!
These are absolutely gorgeous!! When's our next playday??!!
ReplyDeleteOh that does look like fun.
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