Bokeh technique

Recently I've seen quite a few YouTube videos showing cards with the "bokeh technique" as a background. So I just had to give it a go.

"Bokeh" is a photographic effect when the background points of light are out of focus and appear as circular shapes.

So as you do, I decided to have a play at this technique and came up with these.

The paper used is thick water colour paper, coloured with stampin up inks, water and white craft ink sponged on with a mask of punched circles.

To start I sprayed the water colour paper with water, just a fine mist. 

I added ink with a sponge dauber using crisp Canteloupe, Coastal Cabana and Blackberry Bliss.

Let it dry a bit. Sunshine and a breeze does the trick.

 Then i cut circles in a piece of plastic/ acetate and sponged the holes with white craft ink.

Then using the sponge dauber I added a few spots of white. Maybe I did too many...in some spots.

The craft ink takes a few hours to dry so you can hit it with the heat gun or leave it overnight.

Then I stamped some leaves from the "Butterfly basics"  stampset and the happy birthday.

Lastly I added the butterfly Framelit die cuts on dimensionals.

Ta dah! the Bokeh effect!!! Enjoy.