Bursting Birthday Card

I made this card for my best friend. His birthday was yesterday. It actually took a while to make. I sprayed some tissue with water, added brushos and then saturated it with water and left it to dry. Once dry I added it to the front of the card blank, sprayed it with water again and left it to dry. Once dry, I peeled the tissue off so it left a subtle impression.

Then I stamped with lots of different stamps and added embossing powders to small areas using a clear ink embossing pen.

I love how with brushos, each background comes out differently.

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Simple Brushos Birthday Card

This is one of my favourite ones. Nice and simple. Brushos and three stamps. The nice thing about the messy look is it doesn’t matter so much if one the them prints slightly wonky!

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Colour Splash Birthday Card

This was a really quick one to do. Just one rubber stamp (from Hobbycraft) and brushos. I didn’t add the brushos all at once, but three blobs or so at a time so they only ran in the right direction.

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Earthy Birthday Card

Keeping it simple. I want to add more to this, but I’m fighting the urge!

I love brushos on these card blanks.

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Messy Brusho Card

Gosh, how long has it been since my last post!? Where does the time go!

I’ve decided to embrace the messy look with my cards. I was trying to make them neat and matt and layer them, but it didn’t feel right.

I really love using brushos on my Craft Creations hemp embossed card.

More to come!

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Handmade Seaside Card

This is the result of my playing with my Woodware ‘Seashells’ stamps, versafine ink and embossing powders.

The background was made from a piece of lining paper I’d used as a drying mat for brusho pieces.

I’ll definitely be using the embossing powders like this again.

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A Super Sticky Stamp Solution

I bought some Woodware ‘Seashells’ stamps recently. They are beautiful, but I had a really hard time using them to begin with, because they are so sticky. I used the stamping platform, but the stamp stuck to the paper and when I lifted it off, it ripped the thin paper I was stamping on to.

I got some advice from the place I bought them from (Loobi Crafts) and they suggested I try Versafine ink. Well wow it really worked!

The print on the left is black Archival and on the right is navy blue Versafine ink. Both are one print using the Tim Holtz Stamping Platform.

After years of crafting I think I’m going to swap ink. From Archival to Versafine!

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