Magical Distress Ink Background with Kelly Latevola

Hello Crafters! 

I hope you're having an amazing week. 

We made it halfway through ya'll. 

I have been really into clean and layered cards lately and typically that means a lot of white for me. But when I pulled out my magnolia stamp set I just kept picturing it in a magical forest. 

Why?

Everything is better with magic :)

I really wanted to create this magical forest feel in my background, BUT I didn't want to stamp out a hundred leaves. I decided I could create it with some stamps, perfect pearls, and of course some magically ink blending. 

I wanted to create a stream of sunlight that would be shining in the background. I ink blended starting with my lightest color in the bottom left and top right had corners. I felt like a diagonal ray of light would deliver the illusion a little better than straight up and down. I moved out from my lightest color to my darkest. Here's my tip for good blending, once you go lightest to darkest go back and do darkest to lightest. By doing the blending twice the paper is more heavily saturated and has a bolder color. 

I used two half sheets of copy paper to mask my edges while I flicked on some clean water just in the center where it's lightest. I moved the masks out a little farther, still keeping the corners covered and spattered on some perfect pearls. I removed the masks entirely and used a very minimal amount of water to flick on small, I mean tiny, droplets of spatter onto some the darker parts to create a natural edge to the light ray. 

The last bit of magic to add to the background is the stamping. I stamped the Fairy Dust stamp in white pigment ink directly over the lightest part of the ray. I then second and third generation the Fairy Dust stamp to the left and right of the center to again reinforce that that natural edge gradient. 

You can see the entire card including the copic coloring in the video below. 

I think I achieved the goal of making it a magical background however, I think there's a ton of other images that would look amazing with this type of background. 

I hope you'll give it a try! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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