Back to Basics - quick Brusho card

I know that for most crafters, the period between Christmas and New Year is THE TIME OF THE YEAR when they can craft as much as they want. Well, I am not that lucky and have to go to work every single day :(

However, I am not allowing that to stop me having colourful fun!!! 

Hence the card! ;)

I started by sprinkling a Distressed Rectangle Polyplate with purple Brusho and iridescent SprinkleIt. Then misting it with a bit of water and... STAMP on watercolour card. 

While it was still wet, I added a little more SprinkleIt.

Once dry, I folded the A4 card and cut to shape to create a card.

As contract, I used a green gel pen to outline the shape - I have done the outline twice purely because I like my lines irregular and wonky.

I also outlined a stamped sentiment - you can see here what I mean by 'wonky lines'!

The last step was to mount the sentiment on the card.

Can you see the SprinkleIt sparkling??? I love it!

There you go - nice and easy and... preeeeeeetty!

See you next time!

Ewelina

Christmas Art Journal becomes an emergency Christmas Card

Hey everyone! Are you ready for Christmas? Are all your cards posted? 

I thought mine were ... until it turned out they weren't ... let me talk you through it...

It started with an art journal...

Here's how the Art Journal page came together:

I started by scribbling a frame and some doodles with a green pen to create the first layer of background design.

Add a layer of texture paste - I like mine to be irregular and grungy.

Choose two Brusho colours you want to use and sprinkle them delicately on the textured area; then lightly spray with water avoiding making puddles. 

For additional effect, water down one of the colours and flick it off a paint brush creating splashes.

Now it's time to create a cluster to become a base of your main feature.

I used strips of various Christmas papers from ABStudio. 

I also cut out various elements from the same papers to use as embellishments which I layered in between the cluster strips.

You can stick te elements under, in between and on top of the cluster - just have fun with it!

You can add some more paint splashes now to make the elements blend nicely not the page.

Top up the finished cluster with your chosen element - I decided to use a reindeer.

TA DAH! My Christmassy Art journal page is ready!

And just as I thought that I will be able to display it nicely in my craft room, it turned out that I needed an additional Christmas card (guess counting is not my strong suit!).

In a moment of genius, I took the page out of the journal, folded in half and... the day was saved!!!

Have a great Christmas!

See you in the new year!

Ewelina

Quick Christmas cards by Karen

It is fast approaching the time when I need to be sending out Christmas cards and I have been doing 'one sheet wonder' style cards where you use every bit of one sheet of paper to make lots of cards. I applied this to these cards today by creating a colourful sheet with Brusho Crystal Colours in traditional Christmas hues of red and green and then cutting it up to make my cards.  Although there are 6 cards in the photo, I actually made seven in just a few hours.

I used a 30 x 30 cm (12" x 12") heavyweight paper and sprayed it with water before sprinkling it with Brilliant Red, Gamboge, Olive Green and Emerald Green Brusho powders. I dabbed with a paper towel anywhere that there seemed to be too much water or the colours were running together and becoming too brown.

I dried this with a heat tool before spraying and flicking Brusho Gold Shimmer spray on to it and letting this dry naturally.

I recycled a cereal packet by painting the inside with Aztec Metallics Gold Paint and used this to die cut my text and embellishments. It looks streaky in the photo but it dries to a lovely metallic sheen as you can see in the embellishments below.

I'm pleased with how the cards turned out and I just have a few die cut baubles and a small piece of gold card left over. I'm sure they will make their way on to another card: Nothing wasted!

Hope this helps you if you have lots of cards to make.
Karen

Brusho Shimmer Sprays	Clear Spray Bottle	Heat Gun	Aztec eco metallic paint starter paint	15g brusho
Brusho 24 Colour Boxed Set	Golden haired nylon brushes

Xmas card with Ewelina

Is it too early to start making Christmas cards?

Well... if you have the same amount to make as me, you should have started in January!

Since I have been playing with Crafty Roo's Poly Plates, using them to make some cards was just a matter of time.

All you need to do is sprinkle a little of Brusho on the plate and then spray with just a little bit of water; not too much!

Then stamp! Et Voila!

How cool is that?!

I fussy-cut my trees to add more dimension to the card but you can stamp directly on the card - there are no rules!

The usual for majority of my cards - frame. Never a regular shape or straight line... 

Using Crafty Roo's Music texture stamp, add some irregular stamping to the background.

Just like this.

Now mount the fussy cut trees and a sentiment and you card is ready!

See you next time!

Ewelina

Brusho Crystals

Crafty Roo PolyPlate Tree mini

Crafty Roo textures stamp - music notes

Vintage-y card with Transfoil and Ewelina

Hey everyone!

Ive been making cards again. No specific reason... just feels like the size is appealing to me at the moment... Hmmm

Anyways, have you tried the Transfoils yet? Well, I have and let me tell you - they are a treat!!!

The process is so easy and doesn't require any heating - how good is that!

All you have to do is cover your chosen area with the Flexi Glue and give it a couple of seconds to become tacky - that's when you put the foil over it, press evenly (or maybe even rub it with your finger a little bit) - and remove. Done!!!

As you can see, it works perfectly on both chipboards and paper but I have also been told that it holds awesomely on fabric (I will be trying that soon!).

So that way, I have my card base and main embellishment ready.

I used my paper scraps to build paper cluster - some them I just distressed and some I cut into tags as it makes the cluster more interesting.

After attaching the paper cluster to the card, I sprinkled it with 3 different colours of Brusho (mix it with water and add some SprinkleIt for sparkling effect; dip your watercolour brush in it and sprinkle on the card). 

To finish, I mounted the dress form chipboard on top and added phrases around the cluster.

Nice and easy - shiny card with a hint of good old vintage :)

Hope you like it.

See you next time.

Ewelina