My Lucky

Hello!

With the thought of spring comes green, and with green comes St. Patty’s day! And of course, having a bit of the “ole’ Irish blood in me self”, I had to create a card for the occasion!

I absolutely love ink splatters… I use them all the time on my cards. I really liked the masking technique Jennifer McGuire used in her most recent video, and thought this would be fun to do with my ink splatters you see here…

I began by creating my mask inside my Silhouette Studio. I used the font “Chalkboard”, sized at 122 pt. I then increased the height to 2.6″. This creates more taller letters, which I wanted for my card. Ungrouping the letters, I rearranged and altered the angles of each, just to add some fun interest to the font. Below is a screen shot of the result…

After my mask was designed, I cut it out of some white cardstock with my Silhouette Cameo.

I laid my mask onto a piece of watercolor paper, cut to 3 3/4″ by 5 1/2″. With some Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint and Wild Honey distress inks, I began adding ink splatters to the inside letters of the mask. I dried each layer of ink splatters completely before moving on to the next color. I added multiple layers of each ink color; about six layers total between the three inks.

After making sure my ink splatters were completely dry, I inked the inside of the letters with some Mowed Lawn ink and an ink blending tool. I then removed the mask from my panel.

I used the stamp set “Newton’s Antics” to selectively stamp the “you’re my” sentiment with Versamark ink and Princess Gold embossing powder. I then added a bit of Wink of Stella clear glitter to the letters in the word “lucky”, just to add some shimmer.

My watercolor panel is layered atop of a piece of black cardstock, and a scalloped white cardstock strip and some golden yellow ribbon are added to the bottom of the panel.

The card base is created from some more watercolor paper, cut to 6 1/2″ by 5″. I chose a larger sized card for this because I wanted my letters to be a bit larger. You could size the letters smaller than mine to achieve the same look on a smaller card and still get the same results. I splattered the card base with the same three distress inks used on the word “lucky”. This helped tie it all together.

Finally, I die cut a heart from some white cardstock using the Simon Says Stamp “Hearts Parade” die and inked it with some of the Mowed Lawn distress ink. I then added a coating of the Wink of Stella glitter and adhered it on top of the ribbon knot on the card panel.

And that completes my St. Patty’s day card for today! I hope you’ve enjoyed and I also encourage you to check out Jennifer McGuire’s take on the ink splatters and masking technique too!

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Challenges

This card is submitted into the Addicted to Stamps and More “Holiday” challenge #133, the Addicted to CAS “Distress” challenge #58, and the Simon Says Stamp “Just a Hint of Clover” Monday challenge.

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