Camouflage Background Technique

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Bio:

Kelly Acheson has been a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator for 13 years. She lives in Menasha, Wisconsin and has one daughter in college and 3 grown stepchildren.

SCS Username: Technique_Freak

Blog: AStampAbove.com

Email: Kelly@AStampAbove.com

Cardstock (Stampin’ Up!® Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla)
Die Cutting Machine
Adhesive (Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Dimensionals and Mini Glue Dots used here)
Other supplies as needed to complete the project: Scissors (Stampin’ Up! supplies used here: Pinewood Planks Dynamic Textures Impressions Embossing Folder, Linen Thread, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Old Olive, Always Artichoke ink pads, Aqua Painter, Bone Folder)

Step-by-step tutorial:

Step 1

Cut card stock base at 4-1/4″ x 11″, score at 5-1/2″ – fold in half and burnish edge with bone folder.

Step 2

Drag the Crumb Cake ink pad across the 2-1/4″ x 4″ piece of Very Vanilla cardstock.

Step 3

Crumple up this layer.

Step 4

Apply Soft Suede ink directly to cardstock – leaving it crumpled up so the ink only touches the layer randomly as shown.

Step 5

Crumple up the layer again.

Step 6

Apply Old Olive ink directly to cardstock leaving it crumpled up so the ink only touches the layer randomly as shown.

Step 7

Crumple up the layer again.

Step 8

Apply Always Artichoke ink directly to cardstock leaving it crumpled up so the ink only touches the layer randomly as shown.

Step 9

Use the bone folder to flatten out the camo layer.

Step 10

Spritz the 4″ x 5-1/4″ Crumb Cake layer with a spritzer and water to soften the cardstock.

Step 11

Emboss one of the 4″ x 5-1/4″ Crumb Cake cardstock layers in the Pinewood Planks Dynamic Textures Impressions Embossing Folder and die cutting machine.