Todays post has three cards made using brushos to stamp with and then wiping up the brushos ink to make a great card to emboss on and cut out the elements. They are also three small cards as I like to make a mix of shapes and sizes for my Christmas cards.
For these I used an old but still favourite Creative Stamping magazine set of stamps … they are modern and fresh looking and I love using them for something a bit different.
I started by sprinkling the brushos in ultramarine and emerald green onto my glass mat and then added some water I then stamped into the puddle of ink as if it was an ink pad… this creates the fluid looking stamping with pools of colour and some imperfect stamping. I love this. I also love that the brusho inks already create variation in colour for the image.
Once I had the background clusters stamped I wiped up the leftover ink with some scraps of white cardstock and then let those dry. Once dry I heat embossed some of the images and fussy cut them out. Some I used white heat embossing but the card above shows those I did pearlescent embossing.
Each of the panels I mounted onto the soft sea foam cardstock and then chose different ways to put the small card together but for each I did the same sentiment which I heat embossed using the Seth Apter Baked textures powder which has metallic elements in the green.
This final one I actually added a little of the purple brusho to the ultramarine in error … but turned out to be a great idea and worked well with the white embossing.
Love how sweet these cards ended up being and this splotchy but fun technique.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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