The High Seas

We are still having our Alphabet crafting on the splodgeaway blog, we are crafting through the word "SplodgeAway" we are up to D for any thing Distress, that could be using distress inks, distressing and ripping/ tearing pop on over and see what will be created this week

D for Distress

Something more masculine from me this week

Before I give you a little run down of “How to” I’d just like to say the SplodgeAway demonstrator mat is awesome so much more Splodge space to work on, it made making this card a breeze!

I started with some Tim Holtz kraft resist card, then using shabby shutter, tumbled glass, scattered straw, walnut stain and mustard seed distress inks I coloured the kraft card, the effect of the resist showing through is impressive.

Then using a piece of SplodgeAway easy ink card I randomly stamped a ships wheel in shabby shutters when this had dried I then inked the card using tumbled glass, after this I used a splodgeAway balloon mask and ran it through the cuttlebug to emboss. I then used walnut stain to enhance the balloon pattern. To finish I distressed the edges and curled the corners.

Then for the main focus I used Adirondack caramel ink to stamp the ship on easy ink card, using a waterbrush I gently dragged the ink to give it a watercolour effect, I did the same on the waves and then added a little tumbled glass to colour the rest of the card.

After finishing all the elements I assembled the card and finished with stickles and glossy accents, charms and a fabric brad.

All inks, mats and masks available from Suzicraft

All the stamps used are stampin’ up (very old sets)

Show us what you’ve been making with your mat and masks we’d love to come and visit your blogs, just leave a comment telling us what you’ve made and we will check you out.

Im in the middle of a crafting marathon, Splodgical inspirations will be on ideal world on wednesday at 2pm so all the DT are still busy making last minute samples, yesterday my buddy Jimbo came over to craft although not a lot of crafting got done!!!!!! we'll say no more on that matter madam!
I had some secret masks deliverd so am working on them now, remember to tune in and see the wonderful new splodge products that have been released, you will be amazed.

Karen x