I couldn't wait to try Ellen's first Technique Tuesday on Ghosting, as I had never tried this technique. Here are the supplies I chose to work with:
Supplies:
- BasicGrey Wisteria paper pad & Wisteria brads
- Ranger Snow Cap pigment ink pad
- Ranger Distress inks: Broken China, Faded Jeans, Dusty Concord & Ink Blending Tool
- Ranger Non-Stick Craft Sheet
- Kim Hughes Silhouette Blooms I
- #5 Medium Manila Tag
- White & Cream Art Flowers
- Ornare Piercing Tool
- Tim Holtz Design Ruler & Paper Distresser
I chose a smaller manila tag for my card, but otherwise followed Ellen's instructions for the ghosting technique. I will say that I wasn't very pleased with my ghosting effect until I had applied a very heavy coverage of Distress Ink to it. So keep that in mind -- if you don't like what you are seeing at first, keep applying ink! Starting at the top of my tag, I used these Distress Inks: Broken China, Faded Jeans, and Dusty Concord.
After completing the tag, I distressed the edges, pierced a double row of holes at the bottom, using Tim Holtz's Design/piercing ruler (not sure if it's showing too well in the photo), and then adhered it to my card base with dimensional foam tape. I decided to make the sentiment element of the Card Architecture Blueprint #1 (don't you just love this name? Being married to an Architect, I love it!) a little shorter because it was covering up some of the best of my ghosting technique at the top of that tallest left flower. So I zig-zag machine stitched the sentiment to my tag, to give it an "anchor".
I didn't have any flowers to match my card, so I inked some cream flowers with the same Distress Inks I used for the card ... and got a perfect match!
I hope you'll give this technique a try -- you never know when you might find a new favorite!
