Finger painting
Yep, you read that correctly! Finger-painting!
if you know me, you know that my hands almost always have some sort of art supply covering them! And I am here for it! I love getting messy with color, experimenting with it, putting a new medium through it’s paces, getting to know it and it’s capabilities! I am SUPER excited to share a cool card base background with you, featuring a fun fingerpainting technique and TCW Ocean Blue Stencil Butter
I start with a pre-cut piece of white cardstock, a palette knife and some Ocean Blue stencil butter. I add a bit of stencil butter to my cardstock with my palette knife, scrapping off excess back into the jar. (never waste color)
Next step is the absolute most fun! Spread that creamy dreamy stencil butter across the entire piece of cardstock! I love the fact that I get lots of organic dimension with this technique. Lots of subtle lights and darks and some cool texture. Stencil butters dry lickety split!
Once my smooth beauty was dry, I die cut it with a stitched rectangle die. Next, I watercolored the individual cactus flower from the Tricia art printable (printed on my favorite watercolor paper), then added colored pencil depth and detail. I added some foam tape behind the cactus flower and adhered it to the lower left corner, following up with foam tape on the right side of the sentiment (from the Joyce McCoy art printable) and adhesive tape on the left side.
Watch for more upcoming card base background inspiration right here!