Sponge Cloud Background Tutorial

Good morning everyone. I received a few emails asking how to do my sponge cloud background on cards I posted lately, so today is a tutorial post for sponge cloud background. For your informaion, here are the two sample cards I used this technique:

Material I used:
Stamp image - Magnolia Tulip Walkway
Paper used for background (stamped image on paper first)
Distress Ink (I used Broken China as my sample for this one)
Sponge or finger sponge
White Cardstock - I used X-press it blending card (You can use whatever white cardstock you normally use)
cut the edges of the clouds by hand on some scrap pieces of paper as template

First, lightly touch the sponge on the ink pad, so you don't get too much ink

Put the cloud template on top of the background paper, rub the inked sponge along the cloud edge gently in a circle motion. (see picture on the left)
You can rub some area harder than other, so you it will give some dynamic touch rather than all in same colors. (see picture on the right)

After you finished the first edge, move the template down, but instead of lying it in the same spot, move it left or right more, so it will add more contrast. (see picture below)

Keep working along from top to the bottom

When it comes to the bottom closer to the edge of the image, just rub the sponge as close as the image, but don't rub over top. See the picture on the right? There are still some empty spaces on top of the tulips, so try to fill up the empty spaces as much as you can.

Here is the finished sky background.

It's a very simple technique and it's a great way filling up space, lol Ok, thank you so much for stopping by and hope you get a chance to try this technique out and have fun :o)