I quite liked this particular moodboard at Just at Ink, and it stayed in my mind after I first saw it. I thought that perhaps I might try doing a mixed media style card, but earlier I saw something on Instagram that I liked as well, so I decided to have a go at what I had seen. I know I’ve done something like this a long time ago, but I had forgotten the technique. I followed the upload to HeroArts blog to see how it was done and this is my version of what I saw, using colours from the moodboard as well as the shape in one of the photos. The tutorial used masking to keep the lines white but as I had no coloured hybrid inks I knew I wasn’t going to be able to mask well enough. Instead I used a Sakura Glaze white pen inside my debossed lines before I added any ink and this helped to keep them clean and white. I used a stamp from GKD Mandala Maker set and Blueprint Sketch ink and stamped the shape as centered in each section as possible so it looks as if the tiles have been matched, as they would be if this were being done by a tiler. I chose not to add more ink except around the edges. I made my counter by swiping Pumice stone ink directly to a piece of card stock giving it the look of granite, (I hope) and then I shaped this piece adding foam in the back for dimension. The images were fussy cut after I had stamped them, using the coffee set from GKD and I added some champagne heat embossing to these. The floral on the images is done with Cracked Pistachio. I stamped the sentiment from MFT onto a scrap piece and tucked it under the counter slightly. Added the wood panel underneath. My counter isn’t exactly as I would have liked it to be, but all in all I am happy with the end result.

We took our dog for a walk after a nice Sushi lunch, and got caught in a hail storm. We got rather cold and wet so I’m glad to be back in my warm craft room and have no plans to go out again for now. Thanks for stopping by, it is appreciated, as are any comments you leave.