Make a splash

I’m used to using glossy accents to highlight eyes or make balloons shiny and things on that scale. I had never thought of using thin lines of it to create rain or water ripples though.

For this card, I got out the pico embellisher instead of the glossy accents; it’s much more liquid and comes in a bottle with a fine needle tip which makes it easier to draw skinny lines (especially curved ones).

This is a great technique for anything watery, but I can see myself using it to add highlights to geometric coloured backgrounds as well.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Clearly Besotted – make a splash
• inks:
  Ranger – archival – watering can
• pens:
  EK Tools elegant calligraphy pen
  Sharpie – extra fine paint pen – white
• Derwent Inktense pencils:
  dolphin – 2030 chinese ink, 2120 neutral gray
  water – 0830 navy blue, 0850 deep blue
  ball – 0410 hot red, 0250 cadmium orange
  sky – 0900 iris blue
• embellishments:
  Pico Embellisher – shimmer
  Papercraft Essentials – lush glitter washi tape – light blue
• paper and card:
  Strathmore – Bristol 300
  Papermill Direct – plain – azure blue

Class:

Online Card Classes – Sparkle & Shine

This card was made in May 2017 as part of the Sparkle & Shine class