Techniques For Striking Card Backgrounds
  • Cards
  • Essentials

Liven up your cards! In this class, Laureen Wagener shares five fun and easy ways to give your cards some extra charm. Laureen walks you through various techniques for creating striking visual appeal using different mediums, like watercolor, ink, embossing paste, and more. You’ll learn plenty of tips and tricks for using your supplies to put together beautiful cards that friends and family will love to receive!

  • What you'll learn +
    • Create fun, striking backgrounds for all your future card projects
    • Use Distress Inks to create a watercolor background over an embossed image
    • Make a unique background using stamps and small icons
    • Create a sky background using Distress Inks and ink-blending
    • Use embossing paste and color it for a dimensional card project
    • Alter scrapbook supplies by using cut files for your card backgrounds
Lessons
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Watercolor Background Using Distress Inks
  3. 3. Ink Blended Backgrounds
  4. 4. Colored Embossing Paste Background
  5. 5. Stamped Background
  6. 6. Cut File Background
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Techniques For Striking Card Backgrounds
  • Cards
  • Essentials

Liven up your cards! In this class, Laureen Wagener shares five fun and easy ways to give your cards some extra charm. Laureen walks you through various techniques for creating striking visual appeal using different mediums, like watercolor, ink, embossing paste, and more. You’ll learn plenty of tips and tricks for using your supplies to put together beautiful cards that friends and family will love to receive!

  • What you'll learn +
    • Create fun, striking backgrounds for all your future card projects
    • Use Distress Inks to create a watercolor background over an embossed image
    • Make a unique background using stamps and small icons
    • Create a sky background using Distress Inks and ink-blending
    • Use embossing paste and color it for a dimensional card project
    • Alter scrapbook supplies by using cut files for your card backgrounds