This was a VSN from Melody a few years back. But I think her pdf suffered in the great link disaster of 2020 because I couldn't access it when I went looking for it a few weeks back. At the time I was in a hurry to get my card made, so I just looked elsewhere on line and made a mental note to feature it here with a working link. With more time I dug around the site a bit and ended up finding the same tutorial here that I had found elsewhere a couple of months back. I've added the pdf at the bottom of this post - posted in 2006.
(
Fossil Stone Technique! by reneejul1 at Splitcoaststampers)
The original tutorial uses glossy card. I have plenty of that, so that's what I used for my sample.
For those of you who don't, I experimented with regular card and photo paper, and also the back of photo paper as I have seen people saying that they are using that with alcohol inks.
The back of photo paper
doesn't work for this, don't try it! Right now it's still wet - if it does dry, it will be an interesting background for something some time. But you will get acceptable results with either photo paper or regular card. Personally I like the glossy best, but that's just me.
I'm still short on time these days so I just stuck to distress inks. You will need your pads to be slightly juicy or else you might find you need to mist the page protector a bit before you press the two sides together.
Essentially you start with two pieces of cardstock, a page protector or similar cut open and two coordinating ink pads
Smoosh one colour of ink onto each side of the opened-up page protector, making sure to cover an area the size of your card base.
Fold the page protector over and press with your fingers so that the two colours of ink mingle.
Open up, and lay your two pieces of cardstock down, so that the right (front, glossy) side of the bottom piece is in contact with the page protector, and when you close the page protector over again the right (front, glossy) side of the top piece will be in contact with the page protector. Brayer or use your preferred method to make sure there is a good transfer of ink to paper
(ETA - after several hours this was still not dry. I can see it would work with alcohol inks, but definitely not with water-based).
Here's a link to our
TLC968 Fossil Stone gallery
Here's my card:
TLC968 Whale Hello by Cook22 at Splitcoaststampers
Remember to use the keyword
TLC968 when you are uploading. It's helpful if you come back and leave a link on this thread, especially in case you made a typo and people may not find your card.
If you're not sure how to link your card on the thread here, here's how:
1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one window for your card and one for this thread.
2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link.
3. Go to your card window. Highlight the address for your card. (It says www. splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showphoto..... and so on)
4. Click EDIT. Click COPY
5. Go back to this thread. Click PASTE.
TLC968 - Fossil Background - 09/11/2023
TLC968 You Are Jawsome
