Question:
sponging?
Sponging - Ripped paper technique
You can create a great "wave" effect by combining dye ink, gloss cardstock, and a piece of roughly ripped cardstock! Rip a piece of cardstock so that you have a nice long "roughly" ripped edge. Ink up your sponge with dye ink, in the colour of your choice, and then hold the piece of ripped card on the gloss card surface and rub the ink from the piece of ripped card and onto the gloss card. Continue doing this all over your gloss cardstock, moving the ripped piece around and changing the "direction" of it each time. This can give you a wonderful wave effect.
Sponging - how to use a sponge.
Sponging is very easy and quite within everyone's capabilities! Just choose your sponge and your ink, then pat your sponge onto the ink so that you get a SMALL amount of ink on the sponge. Then "pounce" the sponge onto the card making sure that you turn your wrist every now and then so that the sponge "marks" face in different directions. You can also "wipe" the sponge across the cardstock to create a different look.
Sponging - using templates
Don't forget that you can use templates for sponging onto your card to create backgrounds! Just ink up a sponge with dye ink. Place a template over a piece of gloss cardstock (or matt if preferred) and pat the inked up sponge over the template so that you get a nice even coverage of ink onto the cardstock underneath. You can even create your own templates so that you can create checked backgrounds; dotted backgrounds etc etc.
Sponging - using on gloss card
You can use dye inks and sponges to create great backgrounds on gloss cardstock. Just pat the sponge onto your ink pad to pick up some of the ink and then wipe it across your gloss cardstock. This really works well if you use a rainbow dye ink pad and a damp sponge (very slightly damp!).
Sponging - what sort of sponge do I use?
Well, there are so many different sponges out there, but there are two types that are my absolute favourites! They are the compressed sponge make-up type of sponges (usually wedge shaped) and the natural sea sponges. Both of these are very robust and don't "flake" off onto your work.
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