Colourwashed Lady with Sentiment Card

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A striking card featuring a stamped lady's face with a vibrant colourwashed background in multiple ink colours, finished with a sentiment stamp and splatter details. The design creates a modern, artistic poster-like effect with the lady's face left white to stand out against the coloured backdrop.

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Step by step

1. Remove the largest lady stamp from the carrier sheet and secure it onto an acrylic block. ▶ watch 20:30
2. Ink up the stamp with black ink and stamp the lady's image onto white cardstock at the top of the card. ▶ watch 20:45
3. Select a sentiment stamp such as 'Stay Strong' from the same carrier sheet and ink it with black ink. ▶ watch 21:45
4. Stamp the sentiment in the corner of the card, allowing it to overlap slightly with the lady's image. ▶ watch 22:30
5. Spray a red ink pad with water and use a brush to paint colour around the lady's face, avoiding her facial features. ▶ watch 23:15
6. Add purple ink colour to other areas of the card using the same spray and brush technique. ▶ watch 24:00
7. Apply blue ink colour to additional sections, working around the card in random areas. ▶ watch 24:30
8. Add green ink colour to further areas of the background. ▶ watch 25:00
9. Return to purple ink and add more colour to the remaining spaces around the card. ▶ watch 25:30
10. Use a brush to add ink splats across the coloured areas to tie the design together and hide any blocky paint marks. ▶ watch 25:45
11. Paint a lipstick detail on the lady's face with a brush to add definition and make the image pop. ▶ watch 26:15
12. Heat set the stamped and coloured cardstock to dry it completely. ▶ watch 26:45
13. Mount the finished artwork onto a black cardstock border to make the coloured image stand out. ▶ watch 27:30
14. Adhere the mounted image to the centre of a white card blank. ▶ watch 29:00

Tips from the show

• You do not have to be an artist to create these styles of cards; simply stamp and add colour around the design.
• Splats and random colour application hide blocky painting and add to the artistic effect.
• Mounting the coloured image onto black cardstock makes the design pop because the contrast is striking.

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