I am so proud of my splatter technique on this card. Although I have been card making for many years I have not been able to use the splatter technique effectively. After watching the YouTube for this class, I got a close-up view of the correct technique and, finally, achieved success!
I was excited to use the faux letterpress technique as there are occasions when I wouldn't want to add dimension to a card I was planning to mail but want something more than a flat stamp. So, using th Hello die from the Altenew Envelope die set, I made five copies from various colored scraps, with one copy from vellum to use as the bottom layer to hold the ink.
After adhering the layers together I inked the bottom layer with Altenew Crisp Die ink in Marigold and then, temporarily adhering the die cut to the card, I embossed the card using my die cutting machine. The Letterpress Embossing worked perefectly with just one pass through the machine.
I then splattered the card front with Sunny, Snapdragon, and Ruby Red Altenew Crisp Die Inks by stamping them onto a smooth surface and adding water using a number 2 water brush to dilute them and splatter the ink onto the card. I then added a friend label stamped with embossing ink and white ebossing powder.
For additional interest I adhered a polka dot panel to the left side of the orange card base.
This is definitely my new favorite quick card making technique and I will be using it often. I hope you will try it also. As the old commercial use to say...
