Sponging with Aqua Tints
Supplies
Sponge – diferent types of sponges give a different finish.
Select some coordinating colours, using a sea sponge, dab into the paint and blot onto your card.
You can do this on either wet card or dry for 2 different effects.
Faux Bleaching
Supplies
Once you have created a background on your card using Aqua Tints, you can then give this a faux bleached effect by sprinkling drops of water on top. Then leave it for a few seconds and dab off with kitchen paper – you’ll love the effect!
Seamless Blending
Supplies
Just add a few drops of glycerine on a craft mat and a few drops of Aqua Tints.
Using the Cut & Dry Foam, mop up the glycerine first then the aqua tint and paint gently rubbing over the paper. You can repeat this with different colours for the desired effect.
Shaving Foam Technique
Supplies
Spray cheap shaving foam on your craft mat and add a few drops of Aqua Tints in at least 2 colours.
Swirl with a pokey tool and lay the card on top – you may be lucky enough to get several prints from one application.
This is so much fun and something even the children will enjoy doing so go on, get the kids to create projects with you and have lots of fun.
Clingfilm Effect
Supplies
Household Clingfilm
Put a water wash over the paper then add 3 -4 aqua tint colours – these will blend but you can also help this with the use of a wet brush.
Crumple up some cling film and lay this on the card and set this aside to dry naturally.
Once dry, peel off the cling film to see the effect. This is a unique technique as each time you do it NO two will look the same!
Enjoy!!
Splatter Effect
Supplies
Wet your watercoulour card with the large flat brush and water. Using the pipettes from your Spectrum Noir aqua Tints sets, pick your chosen colours and drop these on to the wet card. By dropping the tint from different levels you can get different looks. You can also use this technique on dry card too for another look.
This technique will take you back to your childhood so go on have some fun and play.
Crystal Technique
Supplies
Take a piece of acetate and drop puddles of floor wax or clear varnish.
Now add some different colours of your Aqua Tints and swirl into the wax.
Add glitter if you wish.
Cover with 1 ply of kitchen paper and leave to dry over night.
Straw Technique
Supplies
This can be done on wet or dry card for 2 different effects. Drop aqua tint on card and blow through a drinking straw to move it around the card.
Salt Effect Using Spectrum Noir Aqua Tints
Supplies
Salt – different salts give different effects – try table, rock or seasalt.
Put a water wash over the paper then add 3 -4 aqua tint colours – these will blend but you can also help this with the use of a wet brush.
Now sprinkle salt on the paper and set this aside to dry naturally for at least one hour. Once dry rub the salt away to see the effect.
Note effects from different types of salt (Sea salt- Rock Salt – Table salt)
Wet on Wet or Graduated Wash Effect using Spectrum Noir Aqua Tints.
Supplies
Wet your card with water using your large flat brush. Then load your brush with your chosen Aqua Tints Colour.
The Aqua Tint stripe across the card to give a colour wash. You can graduate the colour too using this technique.
I have used the following supplies to achieve effect in this Colour Wash tip.
Watercolour Card
Large flat brush
With a large flat brush, wet your watercolour card with water. Using your chosen colours, paint lines across the paper. You can use many different colours as they will start to blend; you can do this many times as you like to build colours and give you a washed effect.
Many of you have enjoyed my Bouquet of Chocolates YouTube Video Tutorial however, as I have subscribers from all over the world I am aware that you can not get the same boxes of chocolates that I have used so this is why I have come up with this new video tutorial.
In this Video Tutorial I show you how to make a box from one sheet of 12 x 12 inch cardstock and some patterned paper to decorate.
This way you can make this project even using sweets or chocolates out of a packet as long as they have wrapper ends for you to attach to the sticks.
Here is what your 12×12 inch cardstock should look like.
The thank you die is from Crafters Companion – Die’sire Only Words Classiques Collection.