Ink SMooshing with a Sentiment for your Cards | Water Based Inks | Card Making Technique
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
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I am here today playing in my crafty space and making backgrounds! I love ink smooshing and this is a perfect way to create beautiful cards because you only need to add a sentiment!
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This is bY far the best video tutorial on ink smooching. I keep watching over and over. Thanks again for taking the time to spread the joy. Dots bring me joy.
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Wow, what an amazing job. Makes me want to run home and try these..
LOVE LOVE LOVE these backgrounds!! I have a lot of the inks. I have a lot of frame dies. NOW I WANT AT LEAST HALF OF THESE SENTIMENT STAMPS!!!! I need to win the lottery... seriously... Thanks for sharing your creativity with us! - and as always - thank you for the humor you put in your videos - they delight me and make me laugh!!
LOL, you are very welcome and I am glad you enjoyed the video!
The backgrounds and finished cards turned out beautiful!!
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This video tutorial was so refreshing in several ways. First you didn’t feel obligated to keep adding embellishments on the finished product. Enough is enough. I think we have to train ourselves to be satisfied or happy or appreciate more simplistic cards. The Japanese are masters at making a little bit look spectacular and pristine. Often times we get sidetracked with all the stuff the creative manufacturers put out there. Yes they are beautiful and I do go full tilt on my kids cards which take all afternoon to create something unique. But I also love your simplistic cards in this video that are in a league all their own. I’m so glad you showed these as I have to make about 30 cards a month for my church Secretary to mail out. I have had a cloud of pressure over me to make detailed cards cause I know where I can take a simple card and give it a huge wow factor. (We all can really add the stuff). But it’s not practical especially for mailing. I hope I’m making myself clear. All this to say that if I don’t underestimate the value of your card why do I mine? Time to be equal here. I’m learning. Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much! I am very glad you enjoyed this video!
Great tutorial. Thank you for teaching me to expand my horizons. These cards are amazing. I’m thinking that many of these will make great masculine cards, which I need.
I was thinking the same thing too.
Yes, they would be perfect for masculine cards!
How did I miss this vid last year?? I loved watching how you turned your smooshing panels into cards. Thank you Desi!! Be well! 😘✨👍🏾 My smooshed backgrounds would go well with the LFL May 2020 add-on sentiment stamp set, using some of your designs. 💕✨
:) "I think I need a bigger bead"! I swore I could see a manta ray in that black piece!! Very nice! I don't use my Distress Oxides near enough! Yes, those sentiments are you!!:D
I love them! Snarky is best... LOL
Love the backgrounds. The black soot one is my favorite, but the pink, red, orange strip one is very cool looking too.
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Such wonderful ideas. My brain has gone into overdrive! Thanks for sharing.
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Just came across this. It is an excellent tutorial. I like that you work with one color at a time and leave white space. A very painterly effect. Thank you!
I've been trying to think of an easy class for Father's day cards this is it my little crafter's will love praying w/the ink and water. Have to tell mom they need to be wearing an old shirt lol ; )
Yes! Let them dig in! Its perfect!
Great Ideas! 💫✨Thank you! I just created a background last night, and I said to myself, “this background is so busy, nothing will stand out on it!” Now, thanks to you, I have a million ideas 💡 of how to use my crazy background! 🎉🎆 🤗
Something will always stand out!
I looove the black soot combos! Black is my signature color! 🙈. You’ve got some great combos and ideas! Love them! 💕🙋♀️
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Thank you so much for showing me how easy and fun ink smooshing can be! I am ready to jump in and give it a try and see the great backgrounds I can make. I think they would be great to make some die cut words as well.
Absolutely, they would be perfect for die cut sentiments!
I love sitting down and just having a ball doing this technique and alcohol inks for backgrounds.... then I have to figure out what to use them for!! Thanks Desiree!
They are perfect fillers!
Thank you so much. I have a pile of prints from my gel plate that I have been wondering how to use. The sentiments are always the hardest part for me so there are a few stamp sets that I need to acquire. Love, love your ideas.
Gel Plate prints are perfect with this idea! YES!
I love the black/grey one!!! It reminds me o a thunderstorm :) awesome video!!!
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Amazing video. I love these cards. The backgrounds are awesome. Thank you for sharing!
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Love how these turned out, especially the bundled sage & victorian velvet, wow! And the, was it shaded lilac with hickory smoke, love it also. Actually I love them all. I often don’t do ink smooshing cuz then I’m not sure what to do with it. But you gave so many examples. So simple but really impactful. Thank you so much! I love watching your videos & I always learn something from you. Hugs, & have a great day.
Thank you so much!
Awesome use of this technique, loved it….
I REALLY REALLY love this video. Thank you!
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*wanders around the house chanting "dry in between" "dry in between" "dry in beCOFFE TABLE!" :-D
rhodynne Hysterical!
I tend to create those nightmares! LOL
What a fun video! Must get out my inks and play!!
I find it very relaxing!
LOVE your videos! They are so helpful, Desiree!
Thanks! I am glad to you are enjoying the videos!
Desiree!!! I had decided that ink smooshing was not a technique I was interested in. Everything I saw seemed to be a hot mess of colors. But you use restraint, place your colors strategically, and the results are wonderful. Spontaneous yet a bit controlled. I liked watching how you varied the way you placed the ink on the surface. I also like the white background as an element of the design. You make it look like such fun. Great suggestions for varied ways to use them on cards as well. Saved for future reference.
I am so glad you enjoyed this video! Next to Colored Pencils I LOVE ink SMooshing, I Love the effect and the texture you get in one quick dip!... There is so much you can do with these backgrounds also!
Love the cards and your ideas on how to use something we all have !
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Love your cards! Thank you 👍❤️😃
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Like this so much. My kind of cards!
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Mesmerizing...so beautiful...gotta do some real soon.
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This is one of the best videos- thank you so much
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Wow, what great inspiration! The sentiment sets you used are wonderful too!
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Very cool!!! 😁😍😁
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Great inspiration. Love the cards. Will have to let loose and smoosh.
Its ok to take a walk on the "Smoosh" side!!!!!
Its addicting!
Looks fun, looks easy to make many cards : ) thanks for sharing!
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Lovely cards. I want to try this technique.
Thanks! You will Love this, it is very addicting!
Wonderful!!
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Love these!!!
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Great ideas! Thank you!
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I love this video.
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Love these. I have a lot of backgrounds made just waiting to be inspired to used for cards. I just tried the Nuvo shimmer powder and it is fantastic. Got the color “Catherine Wheel” and I loved the effect with the gold mica in it.
That is one of my favorites from their shimmer powders!
love this video - thanks for the inspiration!
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I love ink smooshing and I love getting all the ideas of what to do with them afterward. Thank you so much!
You are very welcome!
Love these ❤️
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Love, love, love ALL your ideas! It was so relaxing, fun & inspiring watching you smoosh all those backgrounds. And you have me a few more To Buys to put in my shopping cart. TFS 💖
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Fun! I'm gonna do this...soon.
Great!
I love it
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What a fun video to watch. I love the color combinations and the surprise print created. Thank you for sharing this technique with various color combinations.
You are very welcome!
Awesome cards! I always forget about ink smooshing for backgrounds. They turned out so pretty! I especially liked the one you cut apart and the one you made into a frame.
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What fun and wonderful backgrounds, a great technique!💜🤗
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Thank you for sharing this amazing technique! I enjoyed watching and learning, especially how lovely these cards turned out! 😍
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I love all your cards, they are so simple and beautiful in same time :D
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Very classy and artistic!! I’ve done something similar with gelli plate prints. I love the serendipity of this kind of background making!!❤️
Yes, I have as well... I find it very relaxing! It was tough to stop and start making the cards! LOL
Love your fun attitude! It really does look like a relaxing fun project to destress with. I was seeing so many fun things and shape in the ink 'blots!'. Great color combos. Great tips and a real explaination on the actual techinqe. Thanks for some great inspiration.
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I so enjoyed this video. I always had difficulty with the ink smooching and you just eliminated all of the issues I have experienced and cant wait to try your techniques. Thank you!!!!
That is wonderful!
I Just made a brunch of real watercolour background real fun too
Perfect! Watercolors make beautiful backgrounds!
Love it :) but You know this ;)
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Great ideas for easy cards. I know that if I don’t like any of the ink smooshed backgrounds, I’ll just flip over to use the other side! 😀
That is what is awesome about paper.... it has two sides!
Great video and cards with the ink smooching Desiree. I don't think we can get the SSS stamps here. I think the one sentiment saying "I love you more every day, except yesterday; yesterday you were pretty annoying" hilarious. But I will look for it for sure.
I love snarky sentiments!
@@IncludeaThankYou Me too! I looked but non of the craftshops sell the Simon says things. And that doubles the price of the stampset. It's a pity we don't have a lot of choices here in Europe. I would love to see a Micheals or JoAnnes. I think I would go beserk there. LOL.
I believe you would, I do!!
I just LOVE this video. So pretty, simple, and classy!
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Very pretty!! I luv making backgrounds. More videos like that please. What is meant by Bristol paper?
Thanks! Bristol paper is just another type of a mix media paper. It is similar to a water color paper but has a smoother texture. Water color markers work best on this paper.
I love these panels you made. I also like the grey and black background the best. I could see myself just making a stack of those for various backgrounds. I have all the distressed inks and a few of the new oxides. Plus I have the spray distressed stains or inks? (I'm upstairs on couch. Too lazy to go down to basement to craft room to look). So hopefully I can use them for this.
I like using the new oxides. But I don't know if I want to invest in all of the them, since they are not sold in the small cubes. Do you ever mix the old distressed inks with the oxides? Same thing with the stains? I would just be using it on 110lb cardstock. Of all the paper I own, I do not have any watercolor paper. The painting or water coloring side of crafting is not my forte. I can freestyle with certain textures. I just don't always know which mediums can work together.
Do you think they are going to do away with the regular distress inks and just go with the oxides? I have to admit I like the oxides better. They seen to blend better for me and it's a softer finish...on my stuff anyway. I have some oxides that I do need to get tumbled glass & sage one. I use those 2 colors alot. I just watched Jennifer McCormick's video about the new Tim Holtz alcohol pearl inks. She raved about them. Have you tried them yet?
I also wanted to tell you that after watching your video of the Scraping for Less kit, I went over and purchased a kit and a 6 x 6 paper pad, etc.
When I got it I was so impressed with the quality of the paper in their 6 x 6 pad. I called her and told her that I had never heard of them until I seen your video and how much I liked her paper. Plus I had a few more questions about joining the kit club. She was very nice & was glad to hear I liked the paper. I guess some people don't like the shiny side. Any I didn't know if you were on her design team or what. But I wanted her to know your video introduced it to me...in case you get credit for it in any way.
I am really trying hard this year to use my stash (Its more like a department store than a stash) of inks, stains, etc and not buy any more...unless I really need it. Basicly everything else too....except for paper. I cannot commit to paper! I love all kinds of paper...It's my friend. Lord knows I need to go to an intervention program for paper hoarders. But I'm old, fat and alone with 2 cats and a dog...The last pleasures I have in life are chocolate and paper! And I've already seen so many other new items to try. But first I think I'm going to make a stack of these panels. So I can just have them ready for any project.
Thanks for sharing your video and sorry I ramble typed here. But I am interested in whether you mix the water base inks with other mediums. I need to go fix my herd of animals some dinner. All 3 are staring at me with beady eyes, telling me to put this down & feed them.
Toodles, Mary
Jaditelady173 Mary Hi Mary! I was just reading your comment & I have mixed the regular distress ink with the oxides. It gives a nice effect, the soft chalky look of the oxide with the deeper, translucent look of the original. It’s fun to experiment with. I don’t have any of the oxide sprays (yet) but I would mix them with the regular distress stains, I’m sure it would give fun results as well. I do have watercolor paper now, but I’ve done a TON of ink smooshing on regular 80 or 100 lb paper, just use a bit less water, or keep a paper towel close by to dab up some of the water. As long as I dry between layers I’ve never had a problem with the paper pilling or anything (though it does warp, but I’ll bend it back & forth & even put it in a heavy book to help straighten it back out). I hope this helps. (Also I hope I’m not stepping over Desiree here, I just saw your comment & enjoyed reading it, & wanted to answer since I’ve tried what you’re asking). Have a good day. ~Jenn
Of course you are not stepping over! Any one can answer our questions here!
Everything Jennifer said is perfect and correct! The distress inks, oxides, and sprays are all water based so they will blend beautifully! Give it a try! and yes you can use regular card stock, just use less water... and let dry in between each layer if you add more than one!
I did it my first time ink smoshing yeah for me woohoo one question is my card stock supposed to be wet before I put it in the ink ? I think you’re great thank you for your time and your help .❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❣️
YES! That is wonderful! No, your card stock does not need to be wet first, since you will be spraying the ink on your craft mat!
Include a Thank You ...and then some! Thanks so much I’m not to computer savvy. I have an I pad is there a way to send you a picture of my smoosh? I haven’t made a card with it yet . Thanks again Miss Amazing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🧡❣️
Could u please tell me the difference between card stock, Bristol and watercolor paper?
Sure, but these are my definitions and uses... Card stock is general paper we stamp on it comes in many weights from copier paper to cover stock... Watercolor paper is what i use for water colors and water color pencils... This can come in hot press or cold press textures, basically one is smooth and one is bumpy... Bristol paper is similar to watercolor paper but it is mainly used for watercolor pencils because of the smooth coating it has...