At times you will want to customize your cards, and you don’t have that right shade of paper. What to do?
Make your own of course! All this requires is a sheet of white paper, an ink pad, and a blending brush. I used Tahitian Tide as my ink color.
Rub the brush over the ink pad and brush over the paper in long, sweeping motions. The harder you rub into the ink pad, the darker the ink will be, and you can see a couple areas of lines where there was more ink on the brush.
This may not look like much, but check out the shapes I cut out using the Stylish Shapes dies:
And this is the finished card with one of the shapes. I used a Paper Pumpkin stamp for the saying:
Experiment with different colors and pressure to see what you can come up with. The interesting thing about this card is that the base cardstock used is Pool Party, so a different color if you put the two side by side, it appears to be the same color.
Oh, and the blending brushes wash out with just water! You don’t need one for every color.
Stay creative,
Jen
The Inky Flamingo | Stamp with Jen Vitek 
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