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Crumpled Starburst Backgrounds

This particular technique creates amazingly beautiful backgrounds and fabulous flowers, give it a try and be generous with your sparkly sprays! 

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What I used:

What I did:

1. Spray card with water, it needs to be wet but not sopping.

2. Crumple wet card in your hands and smooth back out onto flat surface.
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3. Spray with first colour (I use lightest colour first, in this case Wake Me Up Before You Go Gold) in random splotches.
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4. Apply mid range colour to a few areas, in this case Hottie Patottie Hot Pink.
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 5. Apply darkest colour in spots, apply a good amount of all sprays so ink runs and pools in the creases.
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6. Spritz with a little more water to ensure colours blend, at this point you can also add more of the palest 2 colours if you like - I sprayed mine with an extra layer of Wake me up before you go gold for extra sparkle.  Can be left to air dry or dry with heat gun, I love to leave to air dry as the colours have more time to blend.
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7. Once dry iron flat (no steam) or place under books to flatten (if you can bear to do this!). 

NB: NEVER directly iron the sparkly surface of card, always use a piece of plain white scrap paper between coloured card and iron – unless you’d like sparkly clothing later. 

If you're more of a learn by watching you can see me making this below:

 

 

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