ColourCraft: Brushos aren't just for artists! by Terri Koszler

Monday 12 June 2017

Brushos aren't just for artists! by Terri Koszler

Hello Sunshine

Good morning crafty friends, Terri here today to share a card project with you. I will be using stamps and dies from Altenew which are called Hello Sunshine.

I have to start by saying that as much as I'd like to be an artist I'm not. I'm a crafter who dreams of being able to paint stunning pictures. When I'm not dreaming I'm stamping and love to incorporate Brusho into my stamping projects, sometimes I spritz and sprinkle, others times I sprinkle then spritz.
Today I am using brusho to loosely watercolour my stamped images, this is striped back simple brusho fun that anyone can do.

I start by stamping my images onto watercolour card using Versamark Ink and sprinkle them with black embossing powder, I then melt the embossing powder with my heat gun. As the watercolour card is very thick I heat from above and below. I always warm up my heat tool for 30 seconds before taking it to my work as this reduces the amount of buckling in the card or paper.

Next I mixed 4 colours of Brusho; Lime Green, Yellow, Alizarin Crimson and Purple. I placed a pipette of water into 4 wells of my pallet and added a few sprinkles of powder to each. Using a very fine brush I start to add colour to the flowers and leaves, I always keep a piece of kitchen towel close to hand to dab any excess colour away from my work.

Once dry I die cut all the elements using the dies which coordinate with the stamps.

I drew a circle onto my card with a pencil to help guide my placement of the cut pieces. I added some foam pads to some of the pieces for more dimension and started to construct the card.

I had a few die cut pieces left and thought it would be fun to make a quick tag to go with the card

I splattered some of my Lime Green brusho onto a white tag and let it dry. I then stamped my sentiment and added the flowers and foliage using foam pads. I tied all the colours together with a lemon ribbon.

Hopefully I've showed you that Bruho can be used in a really simple way and anyone can use it.

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