Ombre Panel Card with Hair Texture and Scored Lines

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Create a striking card featuring an ombre-blended ink panel with stamped hair texture detail, scored lines for dimension, and layered white matting. The design combines background techniques with textural elements to create visual interest and depth.

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Step by step

1. Stamp the umbrella head from your stamp three times onto white card stock. ▶ watch 14:00
2. Cut out all three stamped umbrella heads carefully. ▶ watch 15:30
3. Take a piece of white card for your card front and apply low-tack masking tape to create a vertical panel down the centre. ▶ watch 19:00
4. Blend distress oxide ink in grey and black onto the panel using a blending tool, creating an ombre effect from dark at the top to light at the bottom. ▶ watch 20:30
5. Flick water droplets across the inked panel to create texture and allow the watermarks to develop. ▶ watch 22:30
6. Remove the masking tape to reveal your finished ombre panel. ▶ watch 24:00
7. Ink up just the hair lines from your umbrella stamp using black ink on a block, avoiding the body. ▶ watch 24:15
8. Randomly stamp the hair texture lines down the side of your panel, half on the tape and half on the detail area. ▶ watch 24:30
9. Place your panel into a score board and score one-millimetre lines across it to add dimension. ▶ watch 28:30
10. Cut your panel into three segments using a guillotine, creating varied widths. ▶ watch 29:15
11. Mount white card strips on either side of your centre scored panel to create a layered border effect. ▶ watch 30:30

Tips from the show

• You don't have to use complete stamp images; chop them up and use segments for different effects.
• Let alcohol ink evaporate between layers to avoid blending and maintain texture.
• Score lines add dimension and visual interest to your card design.

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