Monday, 2 January 2012

Guest Designing at ICR

Hi everyone!!

Wish you all a very very  Happy New Year!!I´m back after spending a week in beautiful sunny Canary islands.
My first post for this year and I´m so excited to share that I have been invited as a Guest Designer at ICR( Indian Craft Room) as I was one of the Top 3 in ICR12.
To play at ICR this month you can create a card for any ocassion, any colour combo you want but with a twist that it has to be clean, simple with lot of open space and can be easily mass produced.



I came up with this quick and easy card.




I have used marbling technique directly on the card blank.In order to clearly define the focal point and the open space I did masking on the top and bottom of the card.
Keeping up my promise with Tejal I have tried to come up with the tutorial.

For marbling on paper you require your choice of 3 to 4 marbling colours,Plastic box/ Tray, Water,Paper or card blank.
For this card I have used Gold, Magenta and Ruby Red  from C.Kreul.You can use any brand available in your area.
Photos are not very clear because weather here is very gloomy :(




Fill a deep tray with water



Drop paint onto the surface of the water


 Rake into patterns. Eg.I added few golden paint drops and when it got spread I added Magenta in the centre and then Red.You can create any way you want.


I just wanted a marbling band in the middle of the card blank so I covered the rest of the space using "post  it" This was a challenge for me to do direct on the card blank because I normally do marbeling on white paper to create my own patterned paper.






Then dip a sheet of Paper / Card blank  into the tray and take it out immediately when you are sure that paper and marble paint on the water are in contact .






Allow the marble patterns to dry and then take out the post it .Simple isn´t it?



I added some heart embellishments and sentiments.






Thanks for stopping by! I would love to hear comments on it since it was my first try to make the tutorial.
Thanks Tejal for all your encouragement.
I´m also entering this card in this week´s Wee Memories challenge to use any new technique or anything new.
I did masking along with marbling and this was new for me to try.

Cheers
Archana

16 comments:

  1. So beautiful and your tutorial is very good too.

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  2. OMG!! This is so so awesome!!! Absolutely simple but as you say its a challenge to do it straight on the card...It looks amazing!!!
    Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!

    p.s. When you said marbling, I was imagining marbles rolling around in a box!! :D

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  3. A quick question...the colors - are they specific for this technique or can you use poster paints or need they be acrylic paints? That's going to be the most common query..hence asking.

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  4. Awesome Archana and COngrats on your DT post
    Wish you a Happy and Creative New Year
    Cheers
    Sonia
    cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com

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  5. Thanks all.@ Tejal: I use Hobby line magic marble colours and they are used for this technique only.I´m not sure about poster paints but I guess any colour which can float on water(oil based)can be used.
    here is the link of colours i use:
    http://www.greatart.co.uk/MAGICMARBLEMARBLINGCOLOUR-marble-paint.htm

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  6. Thats really pretty. I too was familiar with this technique but never tried. Will try now with help of ur tutorial.

    http://jyoticraftwork.blogspot.com/

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  7. Archana, that's SUCH A BEAUTIFUL card! I love love love it! Thanks for such a wonderful inspiration! :)

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  8. Wow! This is stunning. i wasn't familiar with marbling, so thats so much for sharing. Thanks for playing at Wee Memories this week!

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  9. Stunning!! easy and beautiful technique!! lovely Archana!

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  10. super like this one....archana u reminded me of this technique...we once did it in school .....dont know how this slipped from my mind....thanks a ton dear ....u have made me nostalgic!!!!

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  11. Thanks Archana for sharing such a nice tutorial. This technique is completely new to me. It looks simple yet great result. I'll surely try this.

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  12. love your tutorial. I have to try it.

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  13. Lovely technique Archana!! The result is very nice! At the first glance I thought it is a patterned paper. Thanks for sharing.

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  14. thanks for tutorial.lovely.........

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  15. thanks for sharing this idea... i tried it as well and it works great......

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  16. Extremely splendid creation....will surely give it a try :)!!

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