Faux Inking Using Printed Papers

Hello friends.  I love watching Jennifer McGuire videos when I'm low on inspiration or just want to try new techniques, and one that caught my eye a few weeks back was Faux Inking Using Printed Papers.  This is basically using DSP in creative ways and even inking over the DSP.  Jennifer doesn't do short videos, but if you've got a spare 43 minutes, it's worth the time to see these ideas!  I have 4 cards to share as I couldn't just stop at one...they really are FUN and very easy to do!

 My first card starts with a piece of DSP from Brutus Monroe's Watercolor Galaxy 6x6 pad in blues and magenta's that I ran through with Honey Bee's Dogwood Blooms 3D embossing folder.  Next I used my sanding block and ran it lightly over the top of the DSP that left a white outline of the Dogwood Blooms and made them more prominent.  This was then layered to a white card base.  In my bin of un-used pieces I found a piece of very light silver glitter paper that I think I colored over with my blending brushes...it's been awhile so not totally sure.  But anyway, the colors matched beautifully with my DSP background, so I die cut my sentiment (Impression Obsession - Big WISHES) and placed it on the background.  The colors were so much the same that my sentiment blended right in...added a white strip behind the WISHES and that fixed that problem.

You can see the colors and the sparkle a bit better in this close up.  I also added a white die cut Berry Branch from SSS, and that finished off this easy peasy card!

My 2nd card uses more DSP from the same Brutus Monroe pad, and I just changed up the sentiment (Honey Bee - Bitty Buzzwords) and added a Olive Branch (SSS) that I die cut from silver mirror cs, a few silver metallic pearls (PFS) and a silver cording bow.  I also ran this DSP through with the same Honey Bee Dogwood Blooms ef and also the sanding process...I love, LOVE this look!!

My 3rd card uses DSP from Craft Consortium's Ink Drops - Dusk 6x6 pad and was just cut into strips and then layered diagonally across a card base that I added a white layer using PFS's Floral Grid Coverplate Die on.  I added a Penny Black Berry Sprig die cut from gold mirror cs (thanks Loll!!) and my sentiment is once again from Honey Bee's Bitty Buzzwords stamps and dies.  Another quick and easy card where the DSP does most of the work!

My 4th and last card started with another piece of DSP from the Craft Consortium's Ink Drops - Dusk paper pad and I stenciled over it using Honey Bee's Folk Art Daisy Stencil.  I also used a retired SU! background stamp called En Francais with light gray ink to add the very faint script in the background.  Here's a closer up so you can see it better...

This card was finished with a stamped and die cut sentiment from Gina K's Radiant Roses and also with a few yellow gems (PFS) to the flower centers.  Once again the DSP did a lot of the work and made this another very fun and easy card to do.  

I wish I could take credit for all these card ideas, but I basically CASE'd Jennifer's ideas with my own DSP, sentiments, and die cuts.  I'm going to share these cards over at Darnell's NBUS Challenge as there are quite a few things that had never been used before on these cards including the 2 DSP pads...I can't even remember how long I've had both of them, but they still had that clear circle sticker holding the pad closed that tells me I never even bothered to open up the pads when I received them to look at them!  Sometimes I think I like shopping even more than I like creating...yep, I'm a problem child!!  But I'm sure I'm not the only one out there!!  Bahahaha!!  

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