Cloud Tutorial and Pleats

Kind of a strange title, I know. I'll start with the "pleats". Today's Technique challenge on SCS was using pleats on your card. Here is the card I did.

Another great set from Our Daily Bread designs.

This one is called "On Eagles' Wings". A quick card to put together really. I was in a hurry this morning as I had to take one grandson over to another grandson's house for his birthday, so I didn't have time to take step by step pictures to show you how to do clouds. The layers are "fauxed" using my handy-dandy ruler and Sharpie marker again...sure saves on cardstock! And my pleats for the challenge are under the verse.

recipe:
Stamps: on eagles' wings-our daily bread designs
Paper: gp white, collectionz paperz cat plaid by junkitz, rusty pickle spurs
Ink: pitch black, broken china, faded jeans
Accessories: scor-pal, copic markers, daubers, cloud template, ruler/sharpie marker, foam dimensionals

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Now for the tutorial!

As you can see I stamped the eagle on my cardstock cut with
Spellbinder's Labels One.
Next, I masked the eagle using a sticky note.

These are the three colors of distress inks I'll use and this my fancy-schmancy cloud template... a piece of thin cardboard cut with scalloped scissors.

Then I just hold the template and sponge
off the edge with Broken China.


Keep moving the template around at different angles.

Next I worked in some Milled Lavender.

And finally, Faded Jeans.

You can see I left some white areas...it always turns out different! Somtimes it's a storm brewing, sometimes a pleastant day!

And the finished piece.
No time to make it "into" something... that will come another day! *wink*


I hope you learned something today and hopefully you'll give it a try!


Thanks for stopping!