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.

Eye, Eye

I was dying to try out my new colours of DecoArt dazzling metalics and my new Limor Webber eye stamp, so decided to combine the two!

I used a mix of royal ruby and worn penny, stenciled in white gesso and chalky paints.

I added some script and using a posca pen outlined the stenciling. I edged in black soot distress ink.

I added some white pen to the main image.

I was playing with stencils and arrived at this background. I added the image and quote in black stazon.

And finally this is a mop up page in a journal (and for those of you eagle eyed folks, yes this is a different one, so I have two on the go now).

Party, Party - You're All Invited

It's a sad time over at Artful Times as this is their last challenge ever, so being as I was a former founder, I felt it only right to say goodbye and party along with them.

So I am inviting you all to party and play along with this last challenge.

General Cards

Was playing with Brusho's and glossy card last night, I left them overnight to thoroughly dry and then this morning added some stamping using my new set of butterflies.

And another couple with the addition of ribbon and gems.

And finally I did the same thing but stamped at a different angles to create oblong cards.

These shall go in my card box to try and sell at the craft fair on Saturday.

Cards and Tags

It's my sisters birthday next week, so had to make her a card. Used one of the backgrounds I made in the previous post, stamped my new lost coast bird and the raindrops by Ryn and hey presto, finished. I used my Stampotique alphabet to write sister but messed it up so had to improvise with my new set of EV stamps!!

And in a couple of weeks it's my nieces birthday too. I made this background when Emma came to play, it's stamping with brushos which was great fun. Just cut it down and mounted it onto black then onto the red card.

And the bird and the raindrops on the tag backgrounds I did earlier too with the new media misters.

Brusho and Gel Medium

After watching Tracey demo the Brushos at the show and explain to us what the thickener was for I decided to see if it would work with Golden gels. Top one is soft gel mixed with orange and it was a bit thin and sloppy, but it still gave good results when dry.

This one is Golden regular gel medium mixed with turquoise brusho and scraped through a stencil. This was much firmer that the above and has dried with more depth, ie the surface is much more raised than the top one.

Birthday Thanks and a Lovely Surprise

Just so you know, this post is very picture heavy, very!! Firstly I had help unwrapping my presents and opening my cards this morning.

And then he really got stuck in!!

First batch of cards from my lovely friends Hazel, Lesley, Lin, Hazel H and Emma.

And the next batch are from some more lovely friends, Helen, Chrissie, Burn, Debs, Chris and Lin.

And the next fabulous batch are from my lovely friends, Kirsten, Alison, Chris and Linda.

And finally this lovely lot arrived today, Neet sent me the green Stampotique card, and Jo the one underneath with the LP image and the lovely Julie Ann made me a gorgeous charm gift and look at the tissue she wrapped it in (right) and the fabulous envie.

And this is a gorgeous hanging from Linda which she gave to me on Sunday at the Donny show, it's fabulous, front and back.

This is a close up of the fabulous charm from Julie Ann, look at those shrink plastic pieces, gorgeous.

And on Sunday at the show, the lovely Lin and Chris presented me with this fab envie top right and inside was this PA voucher, they asked me to spend it at the show, so I got the set of EV stamps left, thank you so much for this lovely present.

I also treated myself to this set of stamps by Ryn Designs with some birthday money.

And then these two plates were from my fabulous mate, Emma. They are a Choc Baroque steampunk set which I had my eyes on at Port Sunny.

And the lovely Lin and Helen also sent me email vouchers which arrived in my in-box this morning, but I've not had time to look for anything today as I had another fabulous surprise.

Emma came over to see me, so I grabbed a quickie pickie once Fraz had calmed down after saying his hellos, and she was finally able to sit and have a drink.

But my intention for today was just to craft and nothing else, primarily playing with the brushos. Emma was up for this as well and here are a couple of things she made. The red reminded us of poppies.

And we did quite well for not making too much mess, well to start with anyway!!!

Then Emma moved on to play with lots of other things, Pan Pastels, Silks, Primary Elements whilst I managed to throw the contents of a box all over the place!!!

This is brushos on a small canvas using a pipette and the TH distress marker spritzer. I dried each colour before adding the next.

And then after cutting out all the 3 plates of stamps above and Emma stamping each one to make sure I'd cut enough rubber off, I added a couple of images to the canvas.

Then I tried a stencil technique that I saw Tracey from Oyster stamps demo at the show on Sunday.

This is the stencil which Emma brought with her, but left at my house!!  It's another Ryn one.

I just loved how this one came out, it's just one colour of blue brusho and then spritzed.

And a tag with a pipette and the TH spritzer tool to blow it around. Then stamped a couple of the Choc Baroque steampunk images and coloured them in with brushos and a water brush.

This is another technique observed on Sunday by Tracey. You may recognise the background image as one of the EV stamps, yes I used brushos to stamp with, then stamped the LP image in black and bleached it out to remove all the colour from it. You wouldn't believe what a difference the bleach made!!

And for my last tag I simply stamped one of the Ryn sets of raindrops, very effective indeed.

This is Emmas bleached out brusho one using one of the new Choc B steampunk set.

And brushos using the TH spritzer tool to get some air to move the brusho about with Lavinia stamps.

And she was testing out more of the Choc B Steampunk images.

The red poppies again.

This tag background was done with silks and primary elements. Looks really good IRL.

And the brushos through the stencil.

I have no idea why, but it won't let me turn this and show it the right way up!!!

Again I have no idea why it's turned around, but nothing I can do. This is Emmas pan pastel make.

And if you've managed to stay with me this long, thank you and well done and a huge thank you to all who have sent birthday wishes via Twitter, FaceBook, by email and by post. I've had a truly lovely day made special by all of you.

***Edited***

This is what I bought with my vouchers from Lin and Helen and a bit of birthday money.