I wanted to play along with the Muse challenge and Make it Monday #129 (Papertrey Ink). I loved the layers of color on the Muse inspiration by Therese Calvird. I was also inspired by the birds on a wire images. I wanted to use an image with a straight line in it, that's why I chose to use an image from the Papertrey Ink stamp set "Quilled Elegance". The Make it Monday technique this week is crayon resist. I haven't done this technique in awhile and enjoyed trying it with Distress Inks. I stamped the image than coloured in sections with a white crayon. After sponging on 4 different shades of distress ink I found that I hadn't coloured in enough areas with the white crayon. I don't know if its cheating but I went back and added some more white with a gel pen. I sponged the edges with Black Soot Distress ink. Then spritzed the piece with water with a bit of gold pearl ex mixed in it.
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Fun to play with inks today.
Thanks for stopping by,
Kelly

Gorgeous - love the drama of the black and the pops of white! Thanks for playing with this week's Muse!
ReplyDeleteFabulous cards - Love the background inking, too!
ReplyDeletewonderful! love the stamps and blue/green background too!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, Kelly! I really love the images from Quilled Elegance colored with the white crayon resist technique :)
ReplyDeleteLove both the cards, very pretty. Crayon resist turned out great.
ReplyDeleteQuilled Elegance was a great choice of stamps to use the white crayon resist technique! Love it!
ReplyDeleteLove the look you have achieved!
ReplyDeleteYour card is absolutely stunning, I just love these pretty colours together and the highlights of white are wondeful!
ReplyDeleteI really like your colour choices, and nice inking!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, what a wonderful technique.
ReplyDeletethis is beautiful! great idea to use crayon resist, it worked perfectly for this card!
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome! I love your blend of colors, layout, images...well I guess I love it all.
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card! I never thought to use that image for the resist technique. Yours came out great--I had trouble getting smooth coverage with the crayon.
ReplyDeleteFantastic technique! I love the design of this card.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card. I have that stamp set too and want to give your idea a try. Cheating while making a card? Can it even be done? Naw, I think if it makes you happy go for it!
ReplyDeleteVery striking card! And I appreciate that you shared your self-questioning on whether you did enough and how you corrected that.
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