Hi! I've had a bit of an embossing frenzy today, and I've also been playing with Brushos, so my desk needs a good clean, and my hands are ve...
Hi! I've been playing around with my new Brushos, creating colourful backgrounds (and making a mess...). I made this card by spritzing a sta...
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It's glorious in Melbourne today, so I'm sharing a brightly coloured card to match the day! I decided to experiment with Colur Burst & Bru...
Hi! Here's a second version of the butterfly card. This time I used a lot more water to get a more muted, blended effect. I also used clear ...
Comme promis, je vous retrouve aujourd'hui avec de la carterie dans le cadre des Tests Produits des cartes et enveloppes Pollen By Claire...
Hi again, a friend asked me to make a couple of thank you cards and left the design up to me, so, of course it has butterflies in it! ...
Welcome to the Totally Techniques International Design Team blog hop! I am Lynsay Mahon, from Edmonton, Canada, and you have just arrived here from Satomi Wellard’s blog. This month we are focusing on a technique using “brusho watercolor crystals.” I'm in love with technique products like brusho, because it gives the ability for lots of creativity!…
This started with a Face book message from Lisa - "You have got to see this" and a link to Eileen Godwin's face book page - Eileen was showcasing some sample cards she had made using her "new love" - Brushos, - And WOW, this lady is amazing with colour! Eileen runs various different workshops…
A very quick and easy way to create amazing backgrounds for your cards or layouts using Brushos and glossy card stock. Stamps are from Happy Little Stampers.
Hi! Here's a card which is very similar to one I made a few weeks ago, although when you use Brushos the resulting colours are always unique...
Be warned- this is quite a long post and photo heavy - so if you just want to see the card I made scroll down! I finally succumbed to buying some Brushos last week and had a quick play with some water when they arrived. This was on watercolour paper but don't like it - too splotchy. Then I tried ordinary white card. Quite nice but prettier with the addition of some SU Vanilla Smooch spray. Then I wondered whether I could just use that instead of water and got these. Blue and turquoise with vanilla then black with vanilla. Think I need a bit mote powder and a bit more liquid but I do like the colour mix. Now a couple of weeks ago I'd bought some shaving foam with the intention of trying out the "shaving foam technique" with re-inkers. I've still not tried it but while languishing on the settee yesterday I got to wondering whether the Brushos would work. This morning I set to with a large plastic tray, lots of kitchen towel and shaving foam. I cut my card into A6 just so that if it was a total disaster I hadn't wasted too much card. I sprinkled a smallish amount of ultramrine and emerald green into one half of the foam - being economical here - then swirled it around with a pokey tool and swished a piece of card through, swirled it again, then another piece until I had these four pieces. The lightest one being the last. Then I tried lemon and scarlet. Next I added the coloured foam with a palette knife and used both the red mix and the blue. Now to mix everything up. Still mixing between bits of card I ended up with a very muddy looking mess! But I ladled it onto card using the palette knife as though icing a cake! Not very inspiring is it? But look what I got when I scraped it off. And finally It reminds me of those marbled papers you used to get in the front of books. At this point the muddy looking mess got washed down the bathroom sink. But I had to make something out of one of the pieces - so using the red and blue one I made this - it reminded me of a sunset over the sea. I mixed the scarlet with some water to use as paint for the sails. And after that long post I'm taking this over to Pixies Playground as the black card was out of my snippets box. I did think I mught join in Darnell's NBUS challenge again as the shaving foam was never before used schtuff but thought that was a bit cheeky! Edited to add Di has persuaded me to link to Darnell's challenge!
Birthday card using SU Delightful Daisy stamps and brusho technique
Okay, back after the coffee break, lol. This post will also be picture heavy, I warn you now. Yesterday, ( Previous Post) I used the Brushos on Smooth watercolour paper, and some Canvas sheet. Now I wanted to see the results using ordinary cardstock, bearing in mind the water involved. I used some Neenah cardstock, some Stamping card from Hunkydory, some generic white card, and some coated cardstock. However, first thing out today was some disposable gloves! These are both done on Neenah cardstock, on the left, crystals first, then spritzed. On the right, water first, then sprinkled in the crystals. Both were taped down with Artists low tack tape to stop them curling. This is Hunkydory Stamping card,on the left, and so far, all the cardstock seems to be coping well with the water. On the right is the coated cardstock. Not affected by the water, but you don't get the same sort of colour intensity you get with uncoated. Another thing you can do with the Brushos is the same technique you use with Distress Inkpads- swiping some onto a craft mat and spritzing. In this case, you sprinkle on some crystals, and spritz. Here I've sprinkled them onto my Inking mat. Spritzed with water.... ...added some more orange and spritzed again. Took some blank tags- just standard generic white card- - and swiped the tags through it. Here I've sprinkled some red crystals on top. You can see how they start to wick and spread in the water. Blues and purples on this one..... ...Then throw a little red on top again, and spritz a bit more. Now another piece of coated cardstock to mop up the colours on the sheet. You get this strange 'resist' pattern appear. Now I thought I'd try the clingfilm trick. Sprayed a sheet of generic card with yellows, greens and browns. Gave it a good spritzing. Scrumpled up some cling film, that opened it out. Remember to tear your cling film much bigger than your cardstock, so you can crumple it up again on top. Lay your cling film on top, and add as many creases to it as you can with your fingers. Put it aside to dry. Not a total success- you can see some markings from the creases, but I think I didn't have enough water on there.Possibly the card soaked up too much. Maybe I should have spritzed the cling film too? Something to try next time. Final thing I wanted to try-there seems to be a divide on the subject of heat setting. Some say don't it fades the colours, others say it's fine. So, to test it out, I sprinkled two pieces of Neenah card with approximately the same amount of colour, and gave them a spritz. The top one I put aside to air dry, the bottom one I heat set with my heat gun. And here they are, both dry, side by side. The one on the left is the one I air dried, and the one on the right got the heat gun. To be honest, looking at this, I'd say there is very little to call it either way. Now a round up- here are a couple of shots of the tags. And some of the cardstock sheets. And a few things I discovered: 1. They're messy- gloves are a good idea, as is an apron, or old clothes. 2. Next time, I'll cut the bottom off a black bin liner, slit it down the side, open it out and put that over my table! 3.It's a good idea to tape your cardstock down, whatever you use, to stop it curling. 4. I think you would get paler colours with less powders. They really are very strongly pigmented, although they do fade a tad when they dry.There is also a white in the box, so I'll be trying that with some of the colours later to see what it does. 5. You can use them like paints, and if you mix them in a palette, you can let them dry out, then revive later with a little water. 6. You need to remember your Colour Theory, in order to not make mud, lol. 7. If you add powder first, then spritz, it will affect where the colour goes- the spritzing pushes it around. 8. If you have pools of wet colour you want to remove, do it with the corner of a paper towel. If you try blotting it with a whole sheet, you'll lift off a lot of the colour.Equally, you can take the colour down a number of notches this way ....
Hello, everyone!! I hope you are having a wonderful week!! I'm going to share some techniques with you today using Brushos, a highly pigme...
I made the focal piece for this card a long time ago. This is a birthday card for one of my sisters. CARD: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110-lb. cardstock (card base), 4 ½ x 6 ¼ inches Gina K. Designs Red Hot cardstock (mat), 4 x 5 ¾ inches FO
Hello everyone I hope you are having a great weekend. I had more playtime with Brushos crystal inks and this time I decided to combine the...
Hi Everyone, I have my spotlight post over at STAMPlorations today. I am using emboss resist as my technique. It is super simple and I always love the effect you get with Brushos or similar pigment powders. I made two different cards, using two different blues shade for card #1 and only the color named gamboge for card #2. If you wondering about that color name - I googled it for you: Gamboge is a partially transparent deep saffron to mustard yellow pigment. It is used to dye Buddhist monks' robes because the color is a deep tone of saffron, the traditional color used for the robes of Theravada Buddhist monks. My stamp supplies: For the Birds, Trendy Butterflies (out of stock at the moment), Party Time, Bloom Happy, Stitched Nesting Dies Curious to find out how I did this? Visit the STAMPlorations blog for a full tutorial! Remember if you try out any of the techniques from our Spotlight posts and hook your project up at our Spotlight Project Showcase you have a chance to win a $15 gift certificate (random drawing) OR your choice of 5x7 stamp set + a Spotlight Project guest designer spot (randomly drawn from the Top 3 picks). Use code STAMPGIRLCORNELIA to get 20% off on all stamps, stencils, and dies on all regular- and sale-priced items in the store. Happy Stamping!
Happy Monday! Today is my turn to share a Project of the Week at my blog and Repeat Impression's blog. I recently discovered a fun techni...
Voilà enfin un nouveau kit atelier, un joli album facile et rapide à réaliser avec sa fiche technique détaillée. Cet album qui mesure 15x30cm (tout en longueur) peut aceuillir 15 photos 10x15cm (perso, j'ai fait des montages de plusieurs photos sur 2...
