2011-02-17 Aged background and that darned canary yellow cardstock

After getting home from work last evening I sat down to enjoy an episode of Stamp TV. Gina K. shares so many techniques and I really enjoy giving them a try. Most of them are not complicated and I generally already have the products she uses.

In the video she adds distress inks to yellow card stock. I have a hate-hate relationship with yellow card stock. I for the life of me, don’t know why I thought I should have and entire ream of canary yellow card stock. It’s so stinkin’ bright it practically hurts my eyes. So my first thought after watching it was…now I can get rid of more of this yellow junk lol!

Remember when I did some volunteer work at our church and tried to use up some of the yellow? Click HERE to see the card and supplies I donated.

Here is my card using the Victorian distressed background.

I thought I would share the technique video right here instead of sending you off somewhere else to enjoy it.

These are the products that I used. Some of them are the same brand, but I did add Perfect Pearls to give a nice glimmer (of course you can’t see any of that in the photos) and I used an old-fashioned “blow pen” to give a splattered look.

I took a close up so you could see some of the layering going on. You may, just may be able to see a slight glimmer. No promises though.

I used my Bow-Easy to tie this double bow. I decided to have it at a jaunty angel rather then just put it on at a vertical or horizontal angle. I like it.

I also found some Tim Holtz crackle medium. I decided to just scribble it over the surface to try it out. In the photo it’s still sticky wet. I can never wait long enough for things to dry. If I remember, I’ll try to take another photo when this goop is dry to show you how it really turned out.

The goo is now dry and has crackled nicely….