Category: Brushos

Biggest Wish, Brushos, Canvas and Mixed Media art, Creative Expressions, Dylusions spray inks, fresco finish paints, Paperartsy, Gorgeous Grunge, Masks/Stencils, Tonic

Mixed media purple flower card

Catherine

This card started off as the palette for my ATCs I shared the other day … although that’s not entirely true … it actually started as a piece of art I had made and popped in a frame many years ago but fallen out of love with. I used it as a palette for the paints and then cut a panel for the card background and carried on creating on it so it ended up matching the ATCs.

I used stencils, paints, Dylusions spray inks, stamps and posca pens to create the background. Then stamped and edged using the stampin up Rich Razzleberry colour.

I also created lots of the flowers using some old watercolour paper and Dylusions inks and brushos to make varied purples and cut it using creative expressions dies.

I cut a vellum panel using tonic curved stitched rectangle die and added the flowers to that and then added the sentiment from biggest wish to it with a mat of the painted paper I had left over.

I added a mat of the white and then added it to a Rich Razzleberry card base.

Final touches were to add the enamel accents as embellishment.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Biggest Wish, Brushos, Canvas and Mixed Media art, Creative Expressions, Dylusions spray inks, fresco finish paints, Paperartsy, Gorgeous Grunge, Masks/Stencils, Timeless Textures, Tonic

UK stampers forum ATC swap

Catherine

The theme at UK Stampers Forum is Spring Flowers and I decided to join in again this month as I got in the mood to get painty and this is what I fancied making!

Admittedly at first glance these may not appear particularly spring like (usually would have gone yellow for daffodils or white for snowdrops) but my mojo wanted to play with purples so let’s think I was inspired by purple crocus instead even if the shapes of the flower are far from crocus like!

Ah well some days you just got to go with the mojo and where it decided to go and forget the rules!

Also the rule for UK stampers forum is stamping and whilst there is stamping in the background it is barely visible from the way I ended up finishing the ATCs. Oops! Again it is where the mojo took me and I went with it!

The backgrounds were made individually using four different Paperartsy paints, some Dylusions spray inks and posca pens with some stampin up ink used for the stamping and the edging. Whilst the dye ink sits on the paint at first it will eventually settle and dry but be warned if using a dye ink on paint it can smear – not really an issue for this style of making but worth noting regardless.

After making the three backgrounds I added die cut vellum and the flowers that I die cut from some watercolour cardstock I had coloured using both the Dylusions spray ink and brushos giving them different purple colours.

I added some thread in a purple colour underneath the sentiment for each – these were sticker labels adhered to some painted paper and cut out.

Then I added the purple enamel accents as final embellishment and called them done!

I did also make a card using the piece of paper I had been using as a palette but will share that another day!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Last minute edit … the photos I don’t think showed the colours well so the next morning took this which seems more true colours … well that’s what I think anyway!

Brushos, Christmas in July, Indigo Blu, Inktense, Derwent, Tidings and Trimmings

Christmas in July

Catherine

Final piece of the brusho masterboard I made finished into a card for todays Christmas in July post.

This time I chose the starry sky to be the main colour with both the sentiment embossed on it and the card blank too.

I also added the white star die cuts from the Tidings and Trimmings set.

Added some more of the iridescent snowflake embellishments too. Not sure what I will do when I run out of these – they are so pretty!

Hope you’ve liked how I used this masterboard. It was so fun to play with the brusho background and the grunge type stamps to create something really interesting to play with.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Brushos, Christmas in July, Indigo Blu, Inktense, Derwent, Tidings and Trimmings

Christmas in July

Catherine

Remember the masterboard I made a few weekends ago …

… well I played with another piece and made another card for my Christmas in July challenge.

I decided to take the bigger of the two pieces left and it pretty much filled the front of a C6 card with enough room for a mat. I did a mat using the soft sea foam and then made the card blank from starry sky, remembering of course to add an insert of white so there is something easy to write on.

I then added a die cut wonky circle and a white tree die cut that I stacked up a few times to give dimension. I also added wink of Stella on the top to give it sparkle.

I then chose a Tim holtz sticker sentiment and some enamel accent hearts for the embellishments.

I might get a chance to finish the other piece off too before the end of the month as I’ve already started on it … but this is todays contribution!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Baked Texture embossing powder, Brushos, Christmas in July, Ribbons, Stamps

Christmas in July

Catherine

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

Brushos, Christmas in July, Indigo Blu, Inktense, Derwent, Ribbons, Tidings and Trimmings

Christmas in July

Catherine

Last weekend I made a masterboard playing with brushos and a set of Indigo Blu stamps I got in a magazine kit. I added some additional colouring with the inktense and some texture with embossing powders too.

Then I cut it up into different sized pieces to make into cards… I only got round to making two so far but the others will no doubt follow!

This is the first one and the biggest piece of the background…

I decided to add this lovely tartan ribbon and then one of the fancy stars from the Trimmings and Tidings set … I die cut this from the soft sea foam cardstock twice and then embossed it with a pearl embossing powder so it’s a really pretty embellishment.

I added the sentiment sticker from Tim Holtz and then added the little iridescent snowflake embellishments across the card.

The next card used the smallest piece of the masterboard.

This I turned into a panel on a 4×4 card with a piece of the dark green cardstock which I embossed with a snowflake embossing folder. I again added the tartan ribbon but only a little bit on the front and the rest wrapped at the back but most of it ended up being covered so not really visible.

I also added a sparkly wooden embellishment from the stash that I think I was gifted in a swap.

Decided against added another sentiment as the panel had the embossed Peace & Joy so it worked well as a sentiment already.

So I have two pieces left to play with … might get to them before the month is out … let’s wait and see! I am already wondering if my Christmas in July energy is running out or whether I can keep going for the full month! Again let’s wait and see!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Brushos, Dies, Nature's Prints

Happy birthday Dad

Catherine

My lovely Dad celebrated his birthday today … he is actually having a few days away with my Mum so not celebrating with us at the moment. I did send the card with my Mum to give him today so hopefully he has seen it by now.

As usual it is always my challenge to make it completely different from the Father’s Day card given they are usually on display at the same time. So given the Father’s Day card was mixed media and a bit grungy I went clean and simple and fresh looking for his birthday card.

I started with a square piece of white card add stamped the leaf images from Natures Prints using brushos that I had sprinkled onto the glass mat and added water to and then stamped into to pick up the ink and then stamped down. This gave a really lovely imperfect stamping water colour effect.

I then mounted it onto black for a frame and added that to the card blank. Then I die cut the Happy Birthday die and stacked it up so it was a strong and more dimensional focal point. Added that and some gems and decided it was done!

Inside I took a smaller piece of the white card and added more stamping with the brushos. again mounted onto black just to add a little something to the inside of the card.

Just love how this turned out … simple but I think very effective!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Brushos, Masks/Stencils, Ribbons, Stampin Blends alcohol pens

Crafting to distract!

Catherine

I’ve been a bit poorly so bought myself a crafting magazine kit to cheer myself up and decided to play with it and see what I came up with to try and distract myself from feeling ill.

It actually took me hours to make these five cards as I had to take breaks and my brain wasn’t exactly working well but chuffed with the final results.

The kit included an embossing folder, stamps, dies and a stencil plus lots of papers. I ended up playing with brushos, modelling paste, blending, stampin blends alcohol pens and had fun.

So this first one was a panel of white, embossed, ink blended and splattered and then added the ribbon and some white die cuts. Love the champagne glimmer ink splatters and centre to the flowers.

The second one took me a bit of thinking on how to use the poinsettia flowers I had coloured with brusho but I spotted the dl card blank and figured it was perfect for a panel of the paper and then the flowers with the white die cut sentiment.

This one took a while to do colouring in all the embossing.. then added gems, pearl accents and the die cut sentiment onto the embossed sentiment.

And this one using the brusho trees … I kept it quite simple in design adding all the lovely silver decorations to the tree and the sentiment as the “trunk”. Entering this into the challenge at TIME OUT CHALLENGES

And finally…

And it might just be the favourite of the set!

The background panel has the modelling paste and then the images were die cut from a couple of brusho panels I painted. That silver sentiment just finishes it off perfectly!

An odd selection of cards but I enjoyed all the playing with the mixed media.

What do you think? Which is your favourite? Mine is definitely the last one and then the tall slim card with those brusho poinsettia.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Biggest Wish, Brushos, Happy Celebrations, Visible Image

Another 16th birthday card

Catherine

Yes another 16th birthday card made for another of my daughters friends… and I had such a messy time making this… it was so fun!

I don’t know the recipient of this card very well but I know she has been doing textiles with my daughter so I decided to use Brusho and embossing to create the background and to dye some fabric. Then I did torn edges and rough hand sewing to give it a grungy but still pretty look.

I used some Visible Inage stamps both for the background and then the focal image and then used a mix of sentiments (Biggest Wish and Happy Celebrations … they are always my go to one’s now!) And found some coordinating sticker numbers for the large 16.

I finished off with some little green/blue iridescent gems for a bit of sparkle.

Inside the card I used one of the Butterfly images and stamped it a few times then coloured them loosely with coordinating colours of watercolour, and the envelope I stamped in turquoise so it coordinated but didn’t need water applying so it didn’t warp.

As you can see from the last image there was a bit of dimension added too for the top later of the card from the cardstock… I really like how textural this turned out… perfect for my daughters textile studying friend!

Joining in the Happy Little Stampers Watercolour challenge.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Brushos, Waterfront

Cards for the parents pt 10

Catherine

Today I have another of those cards I made for the parents which is suitable for male recipients!

I decided to go back to the Waterfront stamps and use them with brushos to create this sweet little scene.

A simple (albeit using a method that made my fingers very inky!) Birthday card! Finished with a Lawn Fawn sentiment stamp.

Happy crafting!

Catherine