Dig out your brayer!!!

by Sue

Welcome!

Are you ready for a wild holiday weekend? As per usual I'm oblivious to what day it is and it was too late for me to do a card celebrating our military. I'm sure Cathy will fix that tomorrow.

Instead...

It's always nice to have a supply of cards on hand, so I spent a little time this week enlarging my collection. I was really pleased with how this get well card came out and even more pleased at how quickly it all fell into place.

These are the stamps I used in this weeks card ~


and here's my card ~


I have to credit/blame this card on my stamping buddy Lisa S. who came to visit at the store last Friday and mentioned using a brayer. Well, that's all it usually takes to get me itching to brayer again.

I started my card by brayering a white piece of cardstock using lavender dye ink, just trying to get an even blending from light to dark. I followed that up by stamping my silhouette leaf background stamp on top of my brayering using violet dye ink.

For the 3 butterfly panels I inked my stamp using black pigment ink and stamped a large piece of white cardstock 3 times without re-inking, giving me a light, medium and dark impression. I continued the light to dark progression with my coloring. All that was left was to add a layer in back of each panel, stamp my message and adhere as shown. What you can't see in the picture is that the message and 2 butterfly's on the last panel are popped out 1/8" to give it a little dimension.

and now it's time for ~


Your Tip - by Mary D. - To create a banner for my card I stamp my image on a narrow piece of paper and then take a square punch and angle it so that the lower right of the punch where the square ends is fitted to where it creates a triangle on the paper piece. You can punch it on either side depending on how you'd like your banner to look.

My Trick - Did you notice on my card posted here that I didn't use the entire get well saying? There is plenty of room on this stamp to only ink the top section, but to be sure I didn't get any ink on the part I didn't want to stamp, I covered it with a piece of scotch tape, inked my stamp like normal, then peeled off the tape before I stamped it.

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to send in your tip or trick so you can win some mega blog candy. I'm sending out some serious prizes (several new release stamps) for every tip I use. Send your tip to submitdrs@yahoo.com

Happy Memorial Day!

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