Aqua Ink Shaker Card

Hi crafty friends. It's Jen here! Boy did I have fun with this months card inspiration. I used the new Aqua Ink line and I'm totally hooked on this new technique! There are several packs of Aqua Ink designs and I fully intend to get my crafty little hands on all of them!

Products Used

AquaInk Transfer Sheets - Watercolor Floral – LDRS Creative

Butterfly Eclipse Dies – LDRS Creative

Elegant Sentiment Word Dies – LDRS Creative

Silken Tulip – LDRS Creative

The application of the Aqua Ink Transfers, kinda reminds me of the tattoo's I used to apply to my arms as a child as they need water to adhere. They are so easy to use and there full instructions on the packaging. The instructions suggest using watercolor cardstock but I went a little rogue and experimented with a piece of pale pink cardstock from my stash. 

I cut the cardstock down to A2 sized, and cut out my chosen aqua ink image from the sheet. Then I removed the clear acetate layer to expose the transfer and pressed it pretty side down onto the pink cardstock. Be careful not to touch the transfer as you do this because you might damage your image.

Then using a spray bottle, I sprayed water onto the back of the transfer and let it sit for a few minutes. Make sure you don't over saturate your image if, like me your using regular cardstock. This avoids excessive warping of your paper. 

Once the water had had engough time to penetrate the paper I gently removed the transfer backing to reveal the most beautiful floral image. Then I set it aside to dry.

Next I trimmed a white A2 card panel down to 5 x 3 3/4 inches and die cut the outer butterfly image from the centre, creating a window. Then using a large blending brush, I lightly ink blended some of the new ink colour Silken Tulip to the edge and inner edge of the window. This helps to define the edges. I also added some black splatter with some acrylic paint. 

When the splatter was dry I added an acetate sheet to the back of the window panel with double sided tape then created a shaker well with foam tape. I filled the shaker well with clear sequins and added, the now dry aqua ink panel to the back to seal in the shaker bits. Then cut off the excess off the backing panel.

The shaker panel was adhered to the centre of a white A2 card base. I also added the sentiment "Celebrate" to the card front that I cut from silver cardstock that was stacked up onto 2 additional white layers. To finish, I decided to keept the embelishments simple by adding a few more clear sequins, and there you go a fun shaker card using the new Aqua Ink Transfers.

I highly recommend trying this out for yourself. 

Bye, catch you all again next month.