Tutorial Tuesday

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Erica here with you today but before I get to my project for today we are so excited to announce the winners of our May Friendship Blog Hop!  We also want to give a big Thank You to Nani ke Ola Scrapbooking for joining us this month! 

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Today I am sharing how to create an easy background using gelatos and some Faber Castell Big Brush Pens.  You can find both of these products in the Paper Wings Productions shop and the gelatos 

are on sale right now!  I will also be using 2 stamp sets from the shop called Thankful and Sparkle

I started out by using the biggest star burst image in the sparkle stamp set 

and colored it with one of mybig brush pens and then stamped it out all over a 

piece of white cardstock that I cut down to a standard sizecard front. 

 I repeated this same process using the next two star burst images in the 

stamp set with a different color blue big brush pen until I ended up with this. 

Next I pulled out my gelatos and added color all over my card front in random 

places.

To blend the colors in I used a sponge to rub the color all over the cardstock 

until I got the look I liked.  I went back in with more color and blended with 

a sponge about 2 or three times.  Next time I do this I will use a thicker 

cardstock or maybe even watercolor paper.  This is what my finished 

background looked like after blending in the gelatos with my sponge. 

From here I added my sentiment from the Thankful stamp set in black ink 

and a few tiny bling pieces to the smallest star bursts.  Last step was to add 

to a black layer piece and apply to my card base!  

This was my first time playing with my big brush pens and I really love using 

them to stamp out images!  If you have not yet tried these out I highly 

recommend them!  They would be perfect for multicolored images!Thanks so 

much for joining me today and I hope you all have a wonderful day!! Make 

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Anything Goes!  I hope you will link up with us this month for your 

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