A Wendy Vecchi Technique

I was checking out Wendy Vecchi's blog tonight, and I clicked on the link that brought me to a Melody Lane video of Miss Wendy demonstrating at the winter CHA 2016.  Wendy demo'd the use of Ranger's Archival Inks over Ranger's Weathered White embossing powder.  I encourage you to watch the video.  First off, the Ranger Glacier White pigment ink pad she used to stamp with was awesome on the black mat board!  So crisp & vibrant!  She had me so excited, I just had to play!

I took some black cardstock, and inked up one of my newest acquisitions, Watercolor NY by Technique Junkie.  I used the Glacier White ink, and then covered with Weathered White embossing powder and melted.  Since I had such tiny places to ink, I used some pointed manicure swabs I got from Harmon.  It's not as easy to pick up ink from the pad with these as it is the ink blending tool.  I could've put drops of reinkers on my craft sheet, but instead of wasting all that ink, I decided to just reink all my Archival pads until they were nice & juicy.

After coloring, I heat set the panel & trimmed.  I wanted the colors to pop, so I used some Tempting Turquoise cardstock from Stampin' Up! as a base.  Kind of plain, so I used Versamark on a background stamp for some texture, and then ran some Black Soot Distress Ink around the edges.

I was just looking as my picture as I was writing this, and I thought I needed some bling ...

Now, what do you think?  I think me likes.  :-)

I'm going to submit this for several challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers:  February Mixed Media Challenge  (oops!  posted here, but I just noticed this challenge is PAINT ... my bad!)

Addicted to CAS:  Code Word HOME

Cropstop Blog:  Linky Party #13--Anything Goes

A Blog Named Hero:  A Little Bit of Sparkle

Simon Says Stamp:  Work It Wednesday

Wow!  That's the most challenges I've met with just one card!  Yeah!