Beautiful Bokeh

Bokeh, it’s a very popular technique in the stamping community but one I had never tried before, until now, that is.  I googled Bokeh for a definition.

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I was also pleased to find lots of videos on line.  I watched a couple and then went to it.  Here is the result.

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1. Background.  I started with a piece of watercolor paper, larger than I needed for my card front so I could trim it down to size once finished.  I used painters tape all around the edges.  This helps hold the water on the paper and not all over your work space.  After I spritzed the paper heavily with water I dipped my aqua painter in ink from the stamp pad and touched it to the watercolor paper.  I started with Blackberry Bliss, then Pool Party and lastly a little bit of  Pear Pizzazz.

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2. Waiting, letting dry. It has to dry before you go on.  While it was drying I made a second card front.

Stampin Up Bokeh AverysOwlery.com

3. Making the mask.  While it was drying, I cut several sizes of circles out of clear acetate window sheet using the circles framelits. This made a mask for the white part.   Don’t throw this away, you can use this whenever you decide to Bokeh.

4. Using the Mask. Once both sheets are good and dry I used a sponge dauber and white craft ink and a circular motion with the mask moving it around and even putting circles on top of other circles.

4.  Waiting again, letting dry

5. Trim to size and stamp a sentiment.  I used the Watercolor Thank You with Basic Black Archival Ink.

6. Mount on card base.  I used Pool Party with Whisper White for one, and Pear Pizzazz with Whisper White for the other.  I didn’t want to go crazy with layers as the technique itself provides layers of color.

It really isn’t a hard technique.  I’ve certainly done harder.  But it is time consuming with all that waiting.  You can use a heat gun to speed it up but I wanted it really really dry so I left it over night after step one.

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Thanks for visiting my Site. My name is Lynn Kolcun and I'm a Stampin Up Demonstrator. I love being creative with paper and ink, learning new techniques and sharing my craft with you.

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  1. These are both so pretty! I must give this technique a try. Thanks for sharing.

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