Nudge Nudge Ink Ink: Bokeh Technique Class

July 4, 2021

Bokeh Technique Class

Did you know I run classes in Burleigh Waters on the Gold Coast? We play with all sorts of different Stampin' Up!® products. Last week I ran a technique class on Bokeh. It's a beautiful technique that adds a little extra something something to a card.

We explored three different backgrounds. This one was watercolouring on some of our watercolouring paper.

To create the Bokeh effect, we punched holes of various sizes in acetate. (And a tip: it's much easier to punch the holes than die cut them.)

Then we used a dauber

And Whisper White Craft Ink to daub through the holes.

This beautiful butterfly card was 'bokefied' in some DSP background.

Every technique class comes with a page of tips.

· Hold stencil and paper still while sponging

· Lift the stencil up and down vertically - don’t slide across the project

· Ensure you sponge to the edge of the circle/shape

· The less times you re-ink the dauber, the lighter your image becomes

· Keep the larger images lighter… the smaller images darker

· Start with the bigger circles first and make sure some circles go off the edge of your cardstock

· Overlap circles

· Odd numbers are good - especially of the larger images. When we see even numbers we tend to add them up

Our last card was a beauty and the ladies loved the mix of inking the background, adding the Craft ink and adding the seaweed cut outs and the shark doo doo doo doo doo.