'Smoosh' Technique - The Open Sea

Another Techniqe card to share with you today :o)

This one features the 'Smoosh' Technique! I have no idea if it has a 'proper' name, this is just what I have always called it :o) It was the Technique I demo'd at my first Party, way back 5+ years ago!

It's a simple Technique. You just need a cellophane pocket or a sheet of thin acetate folded over. I used an A4 pocket and cut down  one long side and the short side so that it opened out.

Open the pocket out and add ink to one side using an ink pad. The foam pads are quite hard to drag across, so I just dabbed it onto the cellophane. I used two colours - Pool Party and Midnight Muse.

Lightly spritz the ink with water. Close the pocket and 'Smoosh' the ink and water about.

Open the pocket and carefully place your cardstock onto it. You can have two pieces of card back to back and they will be done together :o).

Close the pocket back up and 'Smoosh' again. Open the pocket to remove your card .... and you are done :o)

I thought my background would be perfect for use with The Open Sea stamp set.

I coloured the ship very lightly with a Blender Pen and ink pads.

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Supplies

Mens Class - The Open Sea (plus)

I ran an additional class last month for my ladies. This consisted of 3 cards and a 3D gift item suitable for the men in our lives :o)

I struggle to come up with 3D papercraft projects for men. Women are so much easier to cater for :o)

The colour scheme here is Not Quite Navy, Cajun Craze, River Rock, Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla and Whisper White. 

The class included a half pack of the Well Worn Designer Series Papers, a full pack of Clips and several yards of Linen Thread.

The motorcycle card is a CASE of a card from the fabulous and very talented Jo Dumbleton. 

I found the design for this desk Memo Block Holder on Jan Ferring's Blog. It was designed for US paper sizes, so I re-jigged the measurements so it could hold quarter sheets of our A4 copy paper. It makes a brilliant gift for a man, but of course you could decorate it to give to a lady as a gift too :o)