I’ve been getting just as excited by the packaging as in the contents of the boxes lately. Bubble wrap is wonderful with brusho.
I sprinkled some prussian blue, brilliant red and gamboge brusho powder onto the large bubble bubble wrap and then spritzed with water. Pressing a piece of watercolor paper on top of this produced this background. The cut out from the Celebrate You thinlits dies finished this off perfectly – not forgetting to apply the multi adhesive sheet to the back of the card before cutting out the shape. I love this product, it makes it so easy to apply words.
This one was mostly brilliant red powder with just a tiny sprinkling of prussian blue and a bit more water and pressing down harder. Dapper denim went well with the hints of prussian blue so I used that and the sentiment from Picture Perfect Birthday and tied the dapper denim in more by adding a thin mat. I think it was after making this card that my brother Martin found me in the kitchen washing bubble wrap. He was just a little surprised shall we say? He understood of course once I’d explained. I’m now on the lookout for some small bubble bubble wrap!
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Welcome to the Stampin’ Creative blog hop. My name is Liz Bailey and I am really excited to be a guest designer this month with this talented group of demos from the UK – especially as I am originally from the UK and my sister, Caro, is one of the group. I moved to New Jersey quite a few years ago and became a demo almost 4 years ago. My sister and I spend many happy hours discussing stamping! This month the theme is Cooking up a Storm and whilst I love cooking, I don’t have many cooking stamp sets. So I went with preparing fruit for your delectation and delight. Whether you started the blog hop here or are already hopping away, you are most welcome and I hope you enjoy everyone’s creations.
The first card in the pack is my strawberry and watermelon fruit salad. I found it best to use the punches in the itty bitty fruit punch pack so that I could arrange my salad. You also don’t need to stamp the outlines of the fruit if you’re using the punches since they are slightly smaller than the images. I mounted my piece of whisper white onto a slightly larger emerald envy and that fit perfectly onto a notecard. The sentiment came from the Fruit Basket and finished the card perfectly. The sentiment was then repeated on the envelope to make a matching set.
I then decided that I needed to use all four of the punches. So, next up is the pineapple which I stamped in crushed curry and emerald envy and punched out quite a few of them. I added my little fruit trio to a piece of whisper white and added the same sentiment and mat as before. For a different look from the strawberries, a main layer was added from the Tutti Frutti DSP. A scrap was also added to the envelope along with 3 more pineapples.
The speckled look on the pears came about because I couldn’t decide on an ink colour. So I used mossy green and brilliant red brusho crystals liberally sprinkled onto wet watercolour paper and then used the punch. I used another of the sentiments, this time stamped in old olive and glued down 7 pears, popping some up for interest. Another 7 adorned the matching envelope.
So I had used all of the fruit, but now I needed something to put them in. I decided to create a little folder. You need a piece of card stock 9″ by 8″. Score on the 9 inch side at 1/2, 4 1/2 and 8 1/2 and on the 8 inch side at 2 inches. Fold and burnish all the score lines and then remove the half inch strips on the sides down to the 2 inch score line. If you trim a small triangle at the 2 inch line, you have 2 tabs to glue securely to create the pockets which will fold over nicely without the extra bulk. For decoration, I added another 7 pears (well it’s hard to make a small amount of brusho-ed paper!) down the edge. To hold the folder closed, I dyed some whisper white organza ribbon using the dark old olive Stampin’ blends marker.
That should definitely fulfill your 5 a day for today!
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Remarkable You is a set in the current annual catalog and it’s perfect for colouring. Here I was still on my brusho kick, colouring everything in sight. I stamped the flower a few times before I got a decent image – at this point I didn’t have my stamparatus and I was wishing for it! I have it now although it’s at home (unwrapped) and I’m over in the UK visiting family. Luckily my sister has one…
I sprinkled some gamboge and yellow onto a block and used an aquapainter to color the flower. The moss green was on another block and had a tiny sprinkle of prussian blue. It’s really fun to add just a sprinkle of another colour and mix your own shade.
The sentiment is from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous set – such a pretty typeface.
I made the image pop by adding a tiny black mat and then putting that on an old olive card base leaving plenty of the old olive showing.
I’m still addicted to the brusho crystals but sometimes I take a break and do other things!
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I have a lot of brusho cards to share (don’t worry, I’ll spread them out!) and today’s uses them as paint. I wanted to use Lots of Lavendar and have the right kind of purple so I mixed one using the blue and red brushos. I got a colour I liked on the second attempt – the blue is very intense!
I first heat embossed the image in gold. I adore gold embossing; I’ve been a demo for almost 4 years and it is still as exciting, watching the dull powder turn into a gorgeous shiny gold. Then I used an aquapainter to paint my purple onto the flowers and bow. My mossy green brusho wasn’t quite right, so I blended a little yellow to get the shade that I wanted. You really can make just about any colour you like with these 5 pots.
The first version of this card had only a small border showing of the elegant eggplant card but when I finished my second flowers, I realised it would look much better cropped, with a gold foil mat and a deep border of elegant eggplant. It’s too easy to just automatically use your usual layers without thinking.
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As I mentioned previously, it’s rather addictive making cards using the Brusho crystals, finding different effects. Here’s a happy background that really seemed to suit the dancing lady from Beautiful You. Is she dancing or is this yoga? I’m not really sure. Either way, it seems a happy card for a birthday.
I put a piece of watercolor paper onto cling film and sprinkled prussian blue brusho crystals at one end of it and then yellow on the rest of the card. Holding up the cling film to catch the splatters, I sprayed from the bottom rather than down onto the paper. This gave quite a different effect and made the colors blend differently. And the cling film did get fairly splatters so I’d recommend that! I love how there are so many colors on the card even though I only used two.
Once it was thoroughly dry, I added the happy lady using archival black and added a black mat and a dapper denim card base. It’s rather fun choosing card bases because you never can be sure what will look best before you produce the background. It all depends on your mix of crystals. I recommend gently wiping the background with a paper towel to remove any excess powder and to prevent your recipient getting stained fingers!
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