Claire Snowdon and her Favourite Technique

Good Morning Splodgers.

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Today we are showcasing Claire Snowdon's favourite technique using the SplodgeAway Masks. Claire has chosen using the StenSkapes as her Favourite Technique and has used the 'Mad about Fishing' Stenskape to create this fabby card.




I started with a piece of the SplodgeAway Easy Ink Card, I spritzed this with water and then sprayed three different colours of Dylusions inks onto the card.  I blotted the card and left it to one side to dry.  I love creating backgrounds this way and often use several pieces of cards to mop up the colours with - every single one turns out differently.  The easy ink card is excellent for this technique as it takes lots water very well and the surface of the card still stays perfectly smooth.

Once my sunset type background was fully dry I used the Mad about Fishing Stenskape to build my scene up gradually.  I used black soot distress ink and cut and dry foam to add the silhouettes straight onto the background.  I then added the shadows in the water by flipping the stencil and sponging through very gently.  I double mounted the scene onto orange and red card before adding it to my card blank.  Just as a finishing touch I added a few ripples around the fisherman's rod using a fine black micron pen.

Thank you to Claire for this beautiful scene,  the colours really finish this card off nicely. More of Claire's work can be found over on her blog.

Enjoy your day and take care,

Susan xx