Midsummer Blues card with video tutorial

Hi everyone,

It's Monday and that means a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week it's all about "Midsummer Blues".

For this card I used a lot of shades of blue, such as Distress Ink Mermaid Lagoon, Broken China and Faded Jeans and Distress Oxide Peacock Feathers, Stormy Sky and Faded Jeans. And of course a little brown for the vintage look, and it had to be Distress Ink Ground Espresso, my favorite brown of all time. Although this technique takes more time to give color to a complete background, I like it so much more because you are more in control than with the Distress Sprays. I don't know how to handle sprays properly, I guess. My spraying results are not pretty at all.
 

To make the background more interesting I used Schoolhouse stencil with Faded Jeans Distress Ink and I used Opal Magic Blue Gold paint with the Bubble stencil. With a blending foam it's really easy to apply paint with a stencil and get a perfect result. And the Opal Magic paint gives it a very cool effect. I've given the Paper Doll a blue color with Distress Crayon Mermaid Lagoon. And I applied some shimmer to  the Transparent Wings with Metallique Wax Peacock.

 

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SUPPLIES:

Ranger Distress Mixed Media Heavystock	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad FADED JEANS	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad PEACOCK FEATHERS Ranger	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad STORMY SKY Ranger	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad GROUND ESPRESSO Ranger	Ranger - Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Mermaid Lagoon
tim holtz distress broken china ink pad	Faded Jeans - Distress Ink	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayon WALNUT STAIN	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayon MERMAID LAGOON	Tattered Rose - Distress Marker	Zig Watercolor brush
Sakura-CLASSIC-WHITE-Gelly-Roll	Prismacolor BLACK COLORED PENCIL PC935	Zig Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Marker	Simon Says Stamp CRAFT TACKY GLUE	Dylusions Ink Sprays - Black Marble	Prima Flowers OPAL MAGIC BLUE GOLD Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint
Prima Marketing OLD DENIM Art Alchemy Metallique Wax 966768	Prima Marketing PEACOCK Art Alchemy Metallique Wax	Idea-ology Paper Dolls	Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink Pad	Prima Marketing READ TO ME Finnabair Clear Stamp	Tim Holtz Small Talk Stickers
Tim Holtz Idea-ology TRANSPARENT WINGS th93785	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil BUBBLE	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil STARS	Tim Holtz Collection Stencil in School House	Tim Holtz PURVEYOR Stamp set

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Hugs,
Sandra