Techniques with Brushos

Having been asked by PA to play with Brushos, how could I refuse. As they are so versatile, I've decided to show you some techniques rather than the end product, so here goes.

So the first technique involves cling film and a mica based spray product, I'm using Perfect Pearls Mist. Sprinkle a few colours of brusho onto your card.

Spritz with the Perfect Pearls.

And cover with the cling film.

After about 10 minutes, carefully peel the cling film off and you will be left with something like this. The mica has settled and dried in the creases of the cling film.

For the next technique you need to in effect make an ink pad but instead of using ink, we are going to use bleach to lift off the colour. You need a container larger than your stamp, put a bit of bleach in the bottom and use a bit of water to dilute it, place kitchen roll in to make your pad, you do not want this saturated, you just want the kitchen roll to be slightly wet.

So when you lift your stamp out you'll be able to see how wet it is, you don't want it sopping wet.

Then just use it like you would an inked stamp and watch the colour disappear.

I stamped some images from the Hot Picks 1503 plate and used a white sharpie pen. The background script stamp is from the ESN03 plate.

Close up of the bleached stamping and white pen work.

This tag was spritzed with water and turquoise and light brown Brushos were sprinkled on, once dried I added the images in timber brown stazon ink. 

I have a pot and a brush dedicated to the bleach which I slightly watered down.

Picked some areas to remove the colour and used the paint brush to bleach it out.

Close up of the original.

And the bleached out version.

The next technique is stamping with the Brushos. Sprinkle a couple of colours onto your craft sheet and spritz with water.

Lightly dip your stamp into the wet Brushos and simply stamp.

I have found that the bolder stamps work better.

Close up of the bolder style stamp images.

And finally I added the images from Hot Picks 1503 with purple stazon.

And the last technique includes using stencils.

Sprinkle some colours of Brusho onto your stencil.

Spritz with water.

Carefully pull the stencil off.

You can buy Brusho thickener which enables you to use Brusho as a paste, so I decided to see what happened when I mixed it with Goldens regular medium. I pulled some out the tub, sprinkled some Brusho on and mixed it together, it mixed really well.

Scraped it through the stencil.

And peeled it off. It dried really quickly too.

And again using the same Hot Picks plate I added some images and used gathered twig distress ink to add more colour.

So there you have it, a few techniques of using Brushos. I hope you'll have a go and join in with this weeks PaperArtsy challenge which is pigment powders.

Brushos and Bleach

By this time I'd had everything out, so I carried on and made even more mess!!

Left is a brusho mop up and right is a sandwich off a bondaweb page

I used my new wooden TH stamp from Lesley on the left hand side of the left piece and I bleached out the cobwebs on the right.

Close up of the bleached areas.

To create this background I used a pipette to add a pool of water on the card, then added the brusho - thanks Amanda

Then simply stamped the wonderful dragonfly image.

A Play with Tags

I'd been playing with brushos, bondaweb, bleach and straws to make different backgrounds. Here are a few I wanted to share.

The two on the right were created using the TH distress marker spritzer tool to blow the ink.

And this is what I did with them, stamped in bleach and black versa fine ink.

Purple and turquoise brusho on the tags.

Stamping with TH and Paper Bag Studio images, colour removed from the eye with bleach.

Love how the bleach showed on some of the purple splodges. Went backin with the bleach and removed the colour off the face and hands.

Another couple of background mop ups with the brusho.

The left is a tag I painted with silks last weekend, but I wanted to find out how they stamped on, and they are fabulous.  Other 2 are brusho and bleach backgrounds.

And again I went back in and took some colour from her eyes and legs.

And finally for this post, the background for the tags middle and left are created from the excess paint from the deli papers and simply stamped with LP & TH images. Tag on the right is some sort of bondaweb with a fabric texture as I painted brusho onto it and ironed it onto a tag. The ink looks dull as it soaked into the fabric.

This is the tag once it was ironed on.

And I'm sure you'll be pleased to know, that's it for today.

Purple and Turquoise Brushos

Again, not overly impressed with the background.

But my bleach stamping has definitely improved, you can see the actual words.

Again not overly excited about the original background.

Love how the detail came out on the Dina heart, also used some Stampotique splats and a quote.

Brushos and Bleach Stamping

Was playing around with Brusho again but not that keen on what I did, this was about the best one using turquoise and orange which also created a bit of a green where they met.

Then I had a bit of a happy accident. I stamped in bleach, but I had a bit too much fluid on the stamp and instead of it leaving fine petal lines, it took everything away just leaving an outside edge. So I over stamped in versa fine black. Quite pleased with how it's turned out.

Again, not another one I was wild about, using purple and lemon.

And again I had way too much bleach on the dragonfly stamp, so all I was left with was the white space. As you can see, I didn't quite get it lined up, but it looks okay. I had better luck with the flower head, but it was a much smaller stamp.

This one wasn't too bad once I came back to it this morning and it had dried properly.

Hero Arts flower stem stamped in bleach. As you can see too much fluid again on the right one, but there is some definition in the other two, so getting better with practice.