Distress ink watercolored floral card

 Hi everyone! Today's flower card is colored with a fun technique called Ink Smooshing. And it's pretty much as it sounds, just apply the ink to your surface (I have a Tim Holtz glass media mat), spritz with water and then smoosh your paper over the ink. Lift and dab around until you get the look you want. In this case, I used Distress Oxide inks.

I used Tim Holtz Waterbrush Flowers #2 dies. Sharon over at Stamp Simply carries them as well as a lot other TH dies! At first I was intimidated on how to put these together, but Tim is brilliant and there is a faint embossed outline on the main flowers that shows where the accent pieces go. Made it really easy!

Even though it's pretty easy to do, it does take some work to get a result you like. Let's just say I went through a LOT of water color panels before getting enough good panels to die cut these flowers. But aren't they PRETTY?!? You can see some of the extra panels on the left of the card in the photo.

I accented each flower with a coordinating solid cardstock for the accents. I think it enhances the watercolored part! The sentiment is from the Simply Perfect Mix & Match Sentiments by Spellbinders and die cut from Silver Mirror Cardstock. I love this sentiment die set! I went and die cut all the sentiments from White, Black, Gold and Silver cardstock just to have on hand. Too match the silver sentiment, I used Silver pearl accents.

So what do you think? Have you tried Ink Smooshing? Do you find it easy?

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

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