Neon Marvels Ghosting Technique

First things first, I am happy to announce the random winner of our Random Act of Kindness Day giveaway on Monday: Comment #6, Toni Burks.

This is what Toni had to say, "I would RAK my friend Ellie Fannin who is struggling with terminal brain stem cancer. I've been papercrafting with her to lift her spirits, but she is very lonely and bored because she can't do much."  

Congratulations to both of you!

Remember last week I posted a fun tutorial called the Metallic Marvels Ghosting Technique? After trying it with the metallic inks, I wanted to try the same technique with Club Scrap's Neon Dabbers. Here are the BOLD results.

Neon Pink Metallics Combo

Step 1. Make puddles of Neon Pink dabber ink and gold and copper metallic re-inkers on glossy cardstock. Roll with rubber brayer.

Step 2. Stamp Tribal medallion image onto wet inks and slide to create ghosting effect.

Step 3. Stamp inked medallion onto plain white cardstock.

Step 4. Allow panels to air-dry completely, or use a heat tool. Finish cards using the panels you created.

Neon Green & Blue 
Step 1. Make puddles of Neon Blue and Green dabber inks on glossy cardstock. Roll with rubber brayer.

Step 2. Stamp various images from Time of Your Life  onto wet inks and slide to create ghosting effect.

Step 3. Stamp inked images onto plain white cardstock.

Step 4. Allow panels to air-dry completely, or use a heat tool. Finish cards using the panels you created.

Neon Dabber Metal Medallions

Step 1. Use white acrylic paint to cover metal medallions. Allow to dry.

Step 2. Apply Neon Pink ink dabber and Gold Metallic Re-inker to medallion. Use your fingertip to blend.

Step 3. Allow to dry. Use Emery board or sand paper to remove ink from the raised areas.

Step 4. Repeat steps using Neon Green.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoyed the tutorials.

Julie


Club Scrap® Products used:
Painted Desert Dk. Pink Cardstock
Cruisin' Black Cardstock
Study in Red Black Cardstock
Take Wing Lime Green Cardstock
Spring Chorus Rhinestone sticker embellishments
Hopes Gold Fiber
Tribal Collection UM Stamp Sheet
Gift from Retreat 2013 (Darius Embossing Folder: Clocks) 

Metallic Marvels Ghosting Technique

Good Wednesday morning, everyone!

Community member Lori Bethke created a wonderful array of cards from the Retreat 2009 Metallic Marvels workshop. Member Debby H. was intrigued and asked about this workshop, which was before she joined the club, and has since become unavailable.

I wanted to share one of the many techniques taught during this Retreat Workshop. The one I will share with you today is called ghosting and involves the use of a rubber brayer, matte and glossy panels, and a variety of metallic re-inkers. On a side note, I am going to experiment with the Neon Dabbers and see what happens.  I promise to post pictures with my results.

Back to the tutorial.

Step 1. Squeeze out 2 pools of re-inker (copper and gold) onto your glossy cardstock panel. I used a metallic green cardstock from the Raku collection. Using the rubber brayer, roll the ink out onto the panel using a bouncy type motion until the entire panel is covered.

Step 2. Use a stamp, press down into the wet inks, and slide the stamp to create the ghost. Please note, you are only sliding the stamp over about an 1/8 of an inch or so. It creates a drop shadow effect, very cool!

Watercolor Blossom stamp on inked Raku Metallic Green cardstock.

Ghosting on Glossy White cardstock with Aspen leaf stamp

Ghosting on Raku Metallic Green cardstock with Aspen leaf stamp

Step 3. Use the same stamp, still wet with the ink from the ghosting technique and stamp onto white cardstock to create even more art panels.

Step 4. Trim out your art panels to use on your cards.

Bonus Technique:

Step 1. Use the wet brayer from the ghosting technique to ink up a stamp.  Stamp on cardstock panel.

Step 2. Roll the brayer, used to ink the stamp, onto another piece of cardstock.  This creates the negative impression of the stamp onto the cardstock.

Step 3. Create cards using the panels.

Black cardstock stamped panel, Random Doorways Red and Yellow cardstock and Watercolor Blossoms sentiment.

Black cardstock brayer panel, Random Doorways Yellow and Cruisin' Coral cardstock, and Big Deal sentiment.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and maybe we will see a few of these techniques used during this week's Metallic Challenge for Assembly Line Boot Camp.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great week.

Julie