colored background with painters tape

Here is a fun and unique way to transfer ink to paper using blue painter’s tape!

Measurements:

* Seaside Spray Cardstock (#150883 – retiring) 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″
* Basic White Cardstock (#159276) 4″ x 5 1/4″
* 2 pieces of blue painters tape wider than the basic white cardstock and as thick as you choose!
* Baker’s Twine (#152466 – retiring) about 31″ if you wrap it around twice like I did
* Embellishments – 2019-2021 In Color Dots are no longer available
* Tuxedo Black Memento Ink (#132708)
* Seaside Spray Ink (#150085 – Retiring)
* Smoky Slate Ink (#147113)
* Rooted in Nature stamp Set (#146482 – Retiring ) also has coordinating dies that are retiring too (#151786 – Nature’s Roots)

Cut two pieces of blue painter’s tape wider than the cardstock and ink pads (I am using two alternating colors if you choose to use more than two colors you will need a separate piece of tape for each ink color!
Lie the blue tape over the ink pad – sticky side down and rub lightly over the tape’s surface, move the tape over so that the ink coverage is wider than the width of the cardstock. Transfer the tape over to the Basic White cardstock and adhere the tape – sticky and inked side down onto the surface of the white cardstock.

Remove the tape from the cardstock. Notice that the tape leaves a unique impression on the cardstock giving the inked strip lots of depth and dimension! Continue the same technique alternating your colors in the same manner until the desired amount of the cardstock is inked. Here I chose to cover the entire surface in alternating stripes!

I stamped the cardstock with the soon to be retiring Rooted in Nature Stamp set. Both the sentiment and tree image were stamped over the strip background in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to make the image boldly stand out!

I added Twine and embellishments to finish out the card and mounted the Basic White Cardstock piece onto the Seaside Spray base card! A fun and easy way to do a background!