Lady By the Lake

The background to this gorgeous image by Rubber Poet was made using Kaleidacolour Ink, a brayer and gloss card. The sentiment is by Hero Arts.

It IS actually mounted on a white base card, which is quite difficult to see. The image and its immediate background has been raised from the Cuttlebugged piece using DSFT. Added for interest were the punched butterflies.

Watched a video of my niece jumping out of a plane last night, at 14 thousand feet. She tells me it was exciting, but I am wondering why anyone would pay more than 500 dollars to jump out of a perfectly working plane!!!! Hubby wants to go. I think we will buy him that for his upcoming birthday...and I will be on the ground with the bottle of wine and camera! Ugh....never ever...for me!

A Watery Theme

For September we have the theme of "Water", which enabled me to rifle through my pretty Stampscapes stamps...Yummo!

I had a brayered piece of card laying around in my backgrounds box which had a bit of blue in it so decided to stamp the creek scene on top. Once done, I thought it looked really anaemic! BUT....I pulled out the Micro Glaze and rubbed and polished it. What an enormous difference. The piece really is very vibrant now and very pretty.

The wording was stamped on a scrap piece and dealt in the same manner. It is from Darkroom Door.

I do have to apologise for the quality of the photo...but it is gloss card, which is always a right royal pain to photograph, but the weather is not helping here either! The only way to avoid getting a light splotch is to take the photo at an angle. But, I am sure you still get the drift!

What do you think?

Brayered and Sponged Moonlight Sky

And for June we have the theme "Sky".

Here is my interpretation. I have brayered and sponged a la Michelle Zindorf style to get the background. Then, overstamped using a SU leaf, gel penned parts of the leaf to imitate the moonlight and stamped part of an Amazing Creation sentiment in the corner and added a dragonfly just coz.

I remember my friend Cheryll and I sitting down one day to have a go at this style of stamping.....It takes some practice but worth it in the end I think....I think the background came from one of pieces back then and from memory we were trying to follow a tutorial closely!

I like this one the best of all the ATCs done so far!

Brayered Rubber

Just a quick brayered background here using Kaleidacolour Inkpads - Spectrum, I think, with rubber bands tied around the roller. Overstamped with SU Cone Flower in India Ink. I stamped this in Canberra and just found it! Lucky, for it has been a dry week for me, so far, stamping wise.

Hopefully the weekend will bring on some creative time...or I just may have to hole up in the dungeon and lock the door!

Ladies Ink Challenge

Ok...Today we feature Christyne's sketch which you can find on her blog...
http://handstampedfromtheheart.blogspot.com/ This card really IS as bright as it looks. It is as close to the sketch as I could manage. Hope you like it. This has been stamped with India Ink but I do not know the manufacturer of the stamp. Sorry!

ATC

Good morning everyone,

Here is another ATC I have completed in the last couple of days. Yesterday we did not ink up a solitary thing because the Canberra Stitches and Craft Show was on. We knew The Stamp Trap would have a booth there, so we had to go and watch Jeanette demo Stampscapes yet another time and bought heaps!!!! I so love scenes and we are determined to get HER way of creating the colour down pat today. Tis our mission. (We did spend the majority of last night mounting it all up on Ezy Mount so we would be prepared for today.)

This little ATC was made with the theme of brayers in mind, so I did the brayer spritz technique. All the stamps are by Hero Arts with the addition of pretty clear ribbon, bling and brads. (The piccie is at an angle because it was really hard to photograph...it really is 3" x 2" ...and I am NOT going outside where there is no central heating!)

Brayer Bounce Wine Bottle

Good morning everyone,

The fourth in this series is back using the brayer. (Yesterday's was NOT using the brayer, nor the one immediately prior, as a few people have believed.)

A simple brayer bounce this time and with colours very cheerful. Guess you would be seeing the bottle cheerfully with rose coloured glasses if you swigged it all...ROFL!

Is everyone bored yet with my wino series? One more to go tomorrow.

Today, I have to see if I can finish off my SS thing for Sassy Stampers. Have a good day everyone.

Materials

Stamps: Inkadinkadoo 97137DD (Background Wording), 97121P (Wine), Hero Arts CL139 Birthday Messages (Happy Happy Tag)

Inks: StazOn Black Ink, Kaleidacolour (unsure which one)

Cardstock: White Gloss Card, DCWV and Bazzill

Other: Gold Buckle, Red Grosgrain, Small and Large Black Brads, Red and Yellow Paper Flowers

Water Brayered Wine

Good morning everyone!
Tis and has been pouring rain in these parts. Good for the cane! Good for wives to disappear into their dungeons!

OK...Over the next few days I will be showcasing the same stamp with different treatments. I received these two gorgeous stamps as part of a present from my good friend Grace. We do like to have a small tipple when we get together, so the stamps are very appropriate!

Again, this is a brayered background. Isn't it divine? I love the look personally. I love to make backgrounds! Oh, and I so love the fact I don't have to do any colouring in...Sweet! Just a note...the smudgy, dotty stuff on the green stamped layer actually should be there...they are part of the stamp. I haven't smudged...lol!

Materials
Stamps:Inkadinkadoo 97137DD (wording), 97121P (wine)
Inks: Kaleidacolour (not sure which pad...sis a whole pile at once!), StayzOn Black Ink
Cardstock: Bazzill, White Gloss
Other: Black Grosgrain Ribbon, Fun Embellishment (Unknown Source), Black Cording

Bonsai Moon

Good morning all,

I am early with today's post. This is another brayer creation. To get this wonderful effect is so surprisingly easy!

Load your brayer with one of the colours, mist and brayer immediately onto the white card. Repeat the procedure with the second colour! Voilà! As you can see on the image layer really well, you can create washes of colour, or more splotty effects as in the layered background. It will all depend on how much water you mist and how quickly you brayer!

I did try all sorts of embellishments, but quickly came to the conclusion that I wanted to focus on the backgound. Therefore, I have ended up with a very uncluttered card.

I am quite enarmoured with this background. What do you think?

Materials

Stamps: Rubber Poet Don Blanching DB - 12 - F

Inks: Adirondack Denim and Lettuce

Cardstock: Bazzill and Generic White

Other: Brayer, Water Mister

Sundown in the Bush

Afternoon all!

I am still in the container of found UFO's. I brayered and stamped this image up whilst at Grace's House(waving to Gracie!) last year and it was duly lost until the other day! I love the way the brayering looks like the sun going down.

I am not really sure which Kaleidacolour pad I used and the stamp manufacturer is unknown to me too. The background stamp on the pink card is Lucy's Ageing Block 710LM (at least I know something, eh?)

I have raised the main image which looks much better IRL than having every part of the card flat. Isn't brayering a lovely way to infuse colour quickly into your artwork?

More Simple Brayering

Good afternoon fellow stampers!

I will come back and edit the recipe for this card later tonight...but for now, I will just post the card.

Using the brayer one more time, I whipped up this very simple card. My daughter already wants to relieve me of it....I suspect because it features the colour purple. It is one of the first things I learned using gloss card, Versamark, Kaleidacolour and a brayer and still appeals to me many, many years later. I think it definitely would qualify for the clean and simple category! What do you think?

Brayer Bouncing

Evening all,

Just a quick post tonight. This card shows off the Brayer Bouncing technique using Kaleidacolour Flannel dye ink, with a Penny Black flower and Hero Arts wording. It is a quick and easy background made with gloss card. It is Saturday here and I have spent the day in the company of my daughter, Magella, shopping in Mackay. Am really tired now and looking just to blob somewhere in the cool! Catch you tomorrow!

Calendar Page

Hi girls,

It has been a very busy few days for me. Our crushing (the season in which the sugar cane is cut and crushed) is over, hence it is end of season partying time! On top of this I thankfully had my mate, Cheryll come down for the weekend from Airlie Beach to help me with my Xmas ATCs I had to get done asap. On top of this, I had my daughter and her mate doing invites for the mate's 21st in January. Oh, and let's not forget I had a morning doing alcohol backgrounds with some friends too. So, you see, the tank has been hellishly full!!!!

I have managed to finish off these calendar pages for a swap due at the end of this month. I have been wanting to try the Michelle Zindorf style of brayering and sponging, so Cheryll and I sat and tried to perfect the style. I was sooo worried about the straight line mark that the brayer gives, but once you sponge, you no longer have that definite line! Yes, I quite like this style now! And many thanks to Cheryll for sitting to experiment with me and help me with the pages to boot. The only other hassle was the really long and skinny palette that I had to work with. This was a sizing I had not encountered before, so was testing to say the least.

What do you think of the page?