Blending is a way of adding colour to your project and today’s card has a blended oval background. The oval is actually a die cut oval aperture and raised with foam strips. It’s like looking through an oval window to a vista beyond.
Stampin’ Up! introduced blending brushes in their product line recently, but they’ve been around for much longer than that! Make-up artists use this type of blending brush. The brushes have tightly packed and very soft fine bristles. The density of these bristles produces a much softer, blended finish upon application of colour on your card stock. I’ve used if to create the “pool” of water in the background through the oval aperture. If you love Flamingos, this bundle is retiring soon and hasn’t made it into new up-coming Annual Catalogue!
My apologies for the smudge on my leaves in the photo, I didn’t discover it till afterwards and I didn’t want to go back to the drawing board! The colour palette I used are Balmy Blue, Flirty Flamingo and Mint Macaron. I cut the oval aperture with the largest straight edged oval die. These layering dies are retiring too. It’s been around for awhile, but it’s a staple, so I shall hang on to mine for my personal use.
Grab a cuppa – watch the video I created – a picture speaks a thousand words! If you’d like to see other cards I’ve made here’s one using the emboss resist technique. There are many others too. If you search on my home page and type “blending”, some posts will pop up where I’ve used blending brushes on my cards.
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