Distress ink lifting

Hello .............

I have made it back to blog land!  and will hopefully catch up with you all over the next few days.

We decided to have a week away in the caravan (last min) so we went off to Sandringham in Norfolk for a week.  We had a great time even though the weather was a little cold, we managed to get lots of walks with our dog Millie, who loves running around on the beach, and we even managed fish & chips sitting on a bench in the sunshine.

I only took a few craft supplies with me and I did not have my laptop because my son was in the process of cleaning it up.  While away I decided to have a go at Jenifer Mcguire's Distress ink lifting technique which is available HERE

For this first card I used a stamp from Clearly Besotted winter blooms.  I stamped the image in versa mark ink and then heat embossed in white.  I used chipped saphire distress ink to cover the whole card panel (2.5 inch by 5 1/2 inch), then added water as per the video.  I loved playing about with this technique although it does use quiet a bit of ink !!

For this card I embossed some lines to form a rectangle in the centre of my card, cut the panel down and adhered to the centre, the sentiment is from Crazy about you stamp set.

For my second card I used You've got this stamp set and again used some white embossing powder,  this was actually my first panel that I created!  the inking is not so good (need practise)

I created a little frame for this card using two stitched rectangle dies, and then adhered with some foam pads.  

I did try this technique using some ink pads from stampin up but you don't get such a good effect.

I am adding this into the 

CAS mixed media challenge, 

Happy little stampers Mixed media challenge - water