Brayered Brilliance!

Good Afternoon Fiskarettes!

It was fun chatting with a couple of you Fiskarettes last night, but I would love there to be more of you joining us! I want it to be like a virtual party! We will be having another Chat night again, but I’m not sure when that will be as I am in a pantomime next week and we have rehearsals galore!

Today I wanted to share with you another card I’ve made with the same stamp set as yesterday’s card, but the other stamp on the sheet. I’ve also used a technique I haven’t used for ages – brayering. I blame Barbara Grey! I keep watching her, and thinking I must make time to try it again, but never get around to it. It’s so much fun, and works perfectly with this type of block stamp. So let’s get started!

Supplies

Fiskars Goodies

Other Supplies

Ranger Clear Resist Ink Pad

Kaleidacolor Rainbow dye ink pad – Cappuccino delight

Clarity Card silk cardstock

white gel pen

Kaisercraft stamp – thinking of you set

brown pearlescent cardstock

gold mirri board

wide cream organza ribbon

Sakura glitter pen

7 x5 card blank

Recipe

1. take the A6 silk cardstock and stamp the flower top left and bottom right corner. As this is a resist ink pad, and used on glossy cardstock, I didn’t need to add any clear embossing powder. Take the ink pad and load up the brayer by passing over the ink pad several times.

2. Remove any excess ink from the brayer by ‘doing a wheelie’ with the brayer onto some scrap paper. This means passing the brayer over the paper, allowing it to spin in the air at the end. Then start doing wheelies over the silk cardstock. Keep working until there are no harsh lines and the colours have blended.

3. Wipe over the cardstock with a piece of kitchen towel. this will remove and excess ink from the flower images and ‘buff up’ the silk card. Add highlights to the flower image and swirls with a Sakura glitter pen, and a white like and dots around the edge of the card with a white gel pen.

4. Stamp the greeting onto the bottom left corner as shown with Stayzon ink. Mount onto gold, then brown pearlescent cardstock .

5. Take a 7 x 5″ white card blank and attach wide cream organza ribbon around the centre of the card. Tie with a knot to the right hand side. Finally, attach the image panel to the card blank  with 3D foam pads as shown.

Well, I hope you like it! I really enjoyed trying out some techniques that I have not had the chance to do for a while! I’m off to a friends house tonight for a little drinks and nibbles gathering, so I’m looking forward to that .

Have a great Saturday night! Love, and crafty hugs, Clare x