Lillybet's Papers

I discovered this technique quite by accident and I have used it exclusively since for colouring the embossing paste I use. There is no waste and no mess, and I don't have lots of little pots of coloured paste which might dry out and be useless. it's a simple technique - those are often the best. use any ask and a sponge and apply one colour of ink over the mask- this can be on your project or on a scrap piece of paper position the section of mask with the ink on it in the position you wish to have the coloured paste on your project take a small amount of paste with a clean palette knife and spread it over the ink coloured mask the paste will become coloured as you spread it - you can move the colour around, and sometimes your finished area will be variegated colours and that's it! Here's a few samples of cards using that technique - I applied the sponging on a scrap piece of paper For this Crushed Curry card the mask had two colours sponged o...