Ghosting is fun and easy to do. Check out my video tutorial on Ghosting.
The stencil I used above is VERY open, so I wanted to create a ghost of the outline of the leaves. I sponged my card front randomly with turquoise and green inks. Then I sprayed the back of the stencil with water first, layed it on the card front, pressed down and removed. Let the water sit for about 10 seconds to work it's way into the sponged colours, and then blotted with a paper towel. Voila!! This combines Stencil Monoprint with Ghosting. :)
This month we are excited to have Mac Mable (The Sweetest of Peas) are our Guest Designer. Mac won the CAS Mix Up August Challenge - Sprays with this GORGEOUS CARD. Welcome Mac!
Please check out our challenge blog to see Mac's Ghosting card, along with the rest of the Design Team cards.
I hope you'll give Ghosting a try and come join us at the CAS Mix Up challenge with your CAS (Clean and Simple) mixed media cards. We'd love to see you in the gallery.
As always, the challenge is open until the 24th of the month.
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CAS Watercolour's first challenge is live!
As I mentioned on my blog a couple of days ago, Bonnie and I are excited to begin a new adventure with a new challenge --- CAS Watercolour Card Challenge.
The first challenge starts today. Future challenges will begin on the 2nd of every month. The challenge is to create a CAS (Clean and Simple) Watercoloured card following the theme each month.
Here's October's challenge ...
And here's my card ...
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MORE EXCITING NEWS!
We are having a Design Team Call for both CAS Mix Up and CAS Watercolour Card Challenge.
The Design Team Calls run from October 1st - 15th for both challenges. Check out the details on both challenge blogs.
CAS Mix Up Card with Ghosting:
Stamps: A Little Sentimental (Clearly Besotted)
Paper: White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.)
Ink: Distress Inks: Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers (Tim Holtz)
Accessories & Tools: Leaf stencil (Carabelle Studio), sponges, water mister, Fresh Foliage die (Memory Box), stylus and mat, sequins
CAS Watercolour Card - Autumn:
Stamps: Script; Heartfelt (both from Penny Black)
Paper: Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.)
Ink: Delicata Gold (Tsukineko); Black (Memento)
Accessories & Tools: Watercolour sprays made from liquid concentrate in Orange and Magenta (Dick Blick), Acetate sheet for smooshing background, Maple Leaf die (Poppy Stamps)
Challenges:
CAS Mix Up October Challenge - Ghosting
CAS Watercolour October Challenge - Autumn
16 comments:
OMG Loll, your ghosting background is so beautiful and creative. Love your CAS design with your die cut leaves. The perfect combination.
So much excitement for you and Bonnie with your CAS Mix Up and new CAS Watercolouring Card Challenges. Congratulations my friends. Hugs, Nancy
P.S. Your Watercoloured Autumn die cut leaf is Gorgeous! I love your splattered background...perfect CAS design my friend. Hugs, Nancy
What a gorgeous example of the Ghosting technique ..... beautiful colours and I love how the die cut leaves really pop!
It must be so exciting for yourself and Bonnie .... two fabulous challenges. Congratulations to you both ... and good luck (not that you'll need it!) xx
Now you are really spoiling us! Beautiful inspiration. Love the ghosting technique you've used, which looks amazing x Gorgeous second card too, fabulous colours with such lovely colours x Thank you once again for the fun time I had being your guest designer x
More beautiful creations Loll your shadow technique is very effective
Anne
Two gorgeous inspiration cards, Loll! I love the ghosting technique with your stencil and your color palette is so pretty! Beautiful watercoloring on the leaf, too! I'm looking forward to playing along in both challenges :)
Both cards are so beautiful, Loll! I admire your watercoloring since I'm still struggling with that. Love the ghosting on your gorgeous green card. I also love the simplicity of the watercolored leaf. Mac's card was truly amazing in design and color!
Awesome! Both of these beauties. (Will be back to check out the video). I've tried the ghosting, but not been very successful at it so far. Love the background you've achieved on #1 with the fab overlay of dimensional branches. But what really grabbed my heart was that gorgeous leaf in the rich shades of fall color! Just splendid. TFS & good luck with the new challenge. Hope I can do something that is worthy of entering! Hugs
Your ghosted background is gorgeous, Loll! I love how the white leaves really bring out the beautiful colors in the background with the subtle ghosted look! And your watercolored leaf is so pretty! I'm so excited to be joining up with you for another challenge of a favorite technique!
Both cards are spectacular, Loll! The green ghosted background looks so fresh with the white die cut and the leaf with the matching splattered background is out of this world! Absolutely love them both!
Fabulous ghosting with a stencil! Amazing how the water works its magic! I need to do more of this. I love the colours and the look of the simple white leaves on top of them.
Oh, Loll!
Such a beautiful card! I love the delicate web of background, if we moved to a summer morning, when on the cobwebs are strung pearls of dew glistening in the morning sun. That's how I see your first card. A second card I simply disintegrated into a fine powder! Colors, shapes, used paint ... everything that made this card is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen in my life! I never thought that the pink color can dazzle me so ...
hugs,
BozenA
The ink blending is fantastic and really makes the ghosting work to perfection, Loll.
What a lovely ghosted background on your foliage card Loll - and the watercoloring on your leaf and behind it - is just gorgeous! can't wait to try both challenges!
You are a master at CAS cards. Beautiful background in contrast to that pop of white!
Will definitely give you ghosting technique a try, THX xx
Beautiful card! Thank you for sharing how you made it.
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