Ink Blending, Stencils, & Masking

Today’s technique is an easy one with minimal supplies. Ink blending is always a show stopper. Add a stencil and some masking, and you’ve got a fun, colorful background with lots of pattern!

I pulled out some of my favorite Wplus9 PURE COLOR Inks and my blending brushes. I went with V.I.Pink, Wild Mango, Lime Light, Falling For Blue, and Cockleshell. I decided to go with a radial wedge pattern, but you could do stripes or blocks or any pattern you want.

To create the radial pattern, I marked the center-ish point of my panel with a pencil and then used post it tape to mask my wedges. I ink blended a light layer of my chosen ink color.

Leaving my masking in place, I ink blended again through a stencil using the same color. I was going for a tone-on-tone look, but for a fun twist, you could ink blend a different color through the stencil instead. Just make sure that the two colors will blend together and create a pleasing color. For example, you wouldn’t want to blend green over pink, but yellow over pink would be beautiful.

To create the next wedge or ray of color, I removed my masking and repositioned. I covered the area I ink blended previously and ink blended my next color.

I continued around the card base until the entire thing was cover with color and pattern. When masking off your previously ink blended area, make sure that you can just see the tiniest bit of the edge beyond the mask to avoid any white lines between your ink blending. Unless you want a white gap between your colors, which would look awesome as well!

After I finished all of my ink blending, I masked off narrow random rays, applied Versamark and then heat embossed with Clear Sparkle Glitter embossing powder from WOW! I just love the little bit of fun sparkle this added.

For the sentiment, I pulled out our Lots of Love Die. I LOVE this die. It’s just so fun and versatile. I die cut it twice, once from dark pink and again from a lighter pink. I layered the two, creating a little drop shadow and adhered them to the shadow die cut from white, also included in the Lots of Love Die.

See, I told you this was an easy and fun one. I hope you give it a try. There are lots of ways you could switch this up and make it your own. You could even use multiple stencils to create a patchwork of patterns!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you are having a great week!

Featured Supplies

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Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Shop at: SSS	Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts Shop at: SSS	Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 40 Sheets Shop at: SSS	Wild Mango PURE COLOR Dye INk Shop at: WP9
Wplus9 Lime Light Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 V.I.Pink Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Falling For Blue PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Cockleshell PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9
Post It Removable Labeling Tape Shop at: SSS	Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Blending Brushes Shop at: SSS	WOW! Clear Sparkle Embossing Glitter Shop at: SSS
Spellbinders Platinum 6 Shop at: SSS | SPB	Lots of Love Die Shop at: WP9	Fluttering Hearts Stencil Shop at: HBS