Be Your Beautiful Self

When I attended Stamp Camp back in June, Ginger taught two different types of Eco prints techniques.  The 'Leaf Spraying' technique was a lot shorter method to get to the beautiful results than the method of using rusty nails and boiling a wrapped bundle of several prints.  Both methods however produced beautiful Eco prints for backgrounds.

Today I'm sharing the first card I've made using the sprayed Eco print I made at camp. I am grateful for the gals that gathered the assortment of leaves for all of us to have an amazing assortment to work with.

 We used two sheets of Canson Water Color paper for each set of designs.  One sheet is placed on plastic and the leaves placed fairly close without overlapping them.  Then we sprayed three random colors of Distress Oxide or Oxide Stain sprays over the leaves.  Quickly the second sheet was placed on top and using our hands we basically rubbed over the entire sheet to allow the ink to absorb around the leaves on both the top and bottom of our set of sheets.

After drying, a script stamp is used to carefully hand stamp in the open leaf blank spots. Then a Phano pencil (China Marker) is used to draw around the leaves.    A few ink spatters in black or white and the paper is complete.

Mine randomly cut into 5" x 6" pieces for backgrounds....

 I selected today's piece, trimmed to fit the yellow card base and added the sentiment along with a die cut fern piece.

Delivered this one to my friend Martha for her birthday TODAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTHA!

Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been working on. 

Pam's Pearls

 I'll be posting this card in the following challenges. 

Mix it Up Challenge ~ Challenge 78 ~ Optional Mixed Media

Simon Says  ~ Monday Challenge ~ Happy Birthday  

Krafty Chicks ~ Challenge 780 ~ Birthday Cards  

Creative Inspiration ~ Challenge 29