Pastel Ombre Fish Card with Stylish Scales Die

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A soft, layered card featuring an ombre effect blending broken china and wilted violet distress oxides. The Stylish Scales die creates a delicate frame that showcases the pastel background, with coordinating foliage and a sentiment panel for a gentle, elegant finish.

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Step by step

1. Start with a small card blank and apply broken china distress oxide ink using a blending brush, working from the corner inwards with circular motions to build up colour gradually. ▶ watch 1:45
2. Blend the ink towards the centre and darken the corners slightly, then wipe excess from your brush. ▶ watch 2:15
3. Apply wilted violet distress oxide ink using the same circular blending technique from the opposite corner, creating an ombre effect as the two colours merge. ▶ watch 3:00
4. Die-cut the Stylish Scales die from white cardstock using your die-cutting machine, ensuring the magnetic frames are properly positioned. ▶ watch 4:15
5. Remove all waste card from around the die-cut scales panel. ▶ watch 5:30
6. Apply wet glue around the edges and centre of the white scales panel, then adhere it to your ombre card blank. ▶ watch 6:00
7. Create a foliage panel by applying broken china distress oxide to a separate piece of card, then die-cut using one of the foliage dies from the collection. ▶ watch 7:30
8. Cut small V-shapes into the foliage pieces with scissors to create bases for gluing. ▶ watch 9:00
9. Apply glue around the edges of a rectangular card base and layer the foliage pieces, alternating blue and purple colours for contrast. ▶ watch 10:00
10. Stamp 'You're officially awesome' onto the foliage panel using Versafine clay grey ink. ▶ watch 12:00
11. Adhere the stamped foliage panel to your scales card using foam pads for dimension. ▶ watch 12:45

Tips from the show

• Use circular motions when blending ink rather than up-and-down strokes for softer blending.
• The white die-cut frame helps showcase the pastel background colours and covers any blending mistakes.
• You can prepare foliage pieces in advance if you know your colour scheme.

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