AAA Cards challenge: January's sketch - perfectly4med: Artist at workperfectly4med: Artist at work

Well, here’s a thing. I’m no longer on the AAA Cards design team but I thought I’d join in their challenges now and then when I wanted something creative to do that wasn’t ‘work’. January’s sketch design is the first for the year – a prompt for your card layout. Here’s my entry:

Making notes

I started by stencilling distress inks to make the blocks. After that, I dabbed matt multi-medium over the ink and puffed glitter over the top. Taking off the stencil, I found the multi-medium had sucked under the stencil and the ink had run past the ‘edges’ of the blocks. Once it was dry, I hid the over-run with heat-embossed gold outlines. This was a bit hit-and-miss too so I blended those edges with a gold paint marker to fill in the gaps. Finally, I stamped and embossed the sentiment, cut it out with a punch and then adhered it with an extra thick foam pad. It sort of works, but it’s certainly not my best work!