Adding Soft Ink Blending to Your Backgrounds | Raquel Arribas

Hi there friends! It's Raquel here & I'm so thrilled to be on the blog today because I'll be using some new products from the brand new Good Times release. 

I'm focusing on two of the new product suites today:  Butterflies Bliss and Beautiful Soul along with some essential dies which are also part of this release.

To create these cards, I use almost the same process for all of them: I ink blended certain parts of my background to add some interest and then adhered my main images on top.

So without further ado, let's take a look at my first project:

Here are the step-by-step instructions to create it:

1. Add some hot foiling in Matte Gold Glimmer to your cardstock using the Butterfly Bliss and Beautiful Soul press plates. I ink blended two panels of the Beautiful Soul delicate branches.
2. Add color to the images using the coordinating stencils from these sets with: Raspberry Bliss, Sweet Mustard, Sunkissed, Mimosa, Critron, Bay Leaf, and Spruce Tips.
3. Die cut the images using the coordinating dies.
4. Glue the two largest branches and arrange one of the butterflies on top with foam adhesive, as shown in the photo where the two branches meet.
5. Heat emboss the Beautiful Soul stamp in white on vellum & die cut with the coordinating die.
6. Cut a panel of 3 1/4" by 6 1/4" and ink blend the center of this panel with Spruce Tips.
7. Foam mount the images on top and stamp your sentiment from the same set with Detail Black ink.
8. Add some Clear with Gold Dust Gems

For my second project I used the same sets: Beautiful Soul and Butterfly Bliss:

Here's the step-by-step process:

1. Add some hot foiling in Matte Gold Glimmer to your cardstock using the Butterfly Bliss and Beautiful Soul press plates. I ink blended two panels of the Beautiful Soul delicate branches.
2. Add color to your images using the coordinating stencils from these sets with: Raspberry Bliss, Sunrise, Citron, Sunkissed, Mimosa, Critron, Bay Leaf, Mint and Meadow.
3. Die cut a circle frame using two circles from the new Double Stitched Circles die.
4. Ink blend the edges of an A2 panel with Spruce Tips using your 1" blending brush. Place the Stitched Chain coverplate die on top of this panel and dry emboss it using the correct "sandwich" in your die-cutting machine.
5. Foam mount the big circle frame on top of this panel and arrange your Beautiful Soul branches as shown in the picture with double sided foam adhesive.
6. Adhere one of the butterflies from the Butterfly Bliss set at the bottom of the lower branch.
7. Stamp the sentiment from the same set with Detail Black ink and foam mount in the center of the card.
8. Add some Clear with Gold Dust Gems

Since I had four small branches from the Beautiful Soul set already colored, I decided to use them to create my third project:

The process to create this card quite similar to the previous ones:

1. Repeat steps 1 & 2 from the first card.
2. Die cut the images with the coordinating dies.
3. Ink blend an A2 panel on two corners with Mint ink.
4. Die cut an oval with one of the dies from the new Double Stitched Elongated die set.
5. Dry emboss this oval panel with the Stitched Basket Weave and foam mount it onto your partially ink blended A2 panel.
6. Arrange the small branches from the Beautiful Soul set around the oval & foam mount the butterfly at the bottom of the card.
7. Stamp the sentiment from the same set with Detail Black ink & foam mount in the center of the card.
8. Add some Clear with Gold Dust Gems.

I hope these projects bring a smile to your face and feel inspired to create.

Until next time, have fun creating!

Hugs,

Raquel