Inspired by Kelly Acheson's entertaining video, I played with Brusho Crystals and a variety of embossing folders. With just a few minutes of fevered activity, I ended up with a lovely pile of backgrounds.
Embossed watercolour backgrounds made with Brusho Crystals, water and some embossing folders |
I spritzed very lightly with water to start activating the crystals.
Then I spritzed quite generously with water, angling the direction of the spray so that the blue was encouraged to blend down into the yellow and green.
I placed my piece of Whisper White cardstock carefully onto the wet, inky side and closed the folder before running it through the Big Shot.
Brusho Crystals, Woodland Embossing Folder and Let It Ride stamp set This gorgeous horse is crashing out of the woodland at full tilt! |
Once the piece was dry, I used a dry brush to lightly run some Frost White Shimmer Paint over the tree trunks and branches. This produced a wonderful shimmer that's, of course, really hard to capture in the photos!
The base card is 5.75" square and I trimmed the embossed piece to 5.25" square.
I stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut the horse image from the Let It Ride stamp set and cut out the sentiment with the Classic Label Punch. I then adjusted the size of the label as explained below.
The Frost White Ink makes the trees shine and shimmer in the light |
I was like a contortionist all around my craft room, trying to capture the glimmer of the trees in a photo! |
I'm sure you'll be seeing the other backgrounds on future cards. At the moment they're sitting in "background corner" but sooner or later I'll get around to using them!
HOW TO SHORTEN THE CLASSIC LABEL:
Punch the label as usual.
Feeding the right side of the label into the right side of the Classic Label punch to shorten it |
Feed the right side of the label into the punch slot (from the centre) and position as required. Punch
The result after punching the right side of the label shorter |
Feed the left side of the label into the punch slot (from the centre) and position as required. Punch
Alternatively, stamp your greeting towards one end and just shorten the other side.Positioning the left side of the label in preparation for punching it shorter |
The shortened Classic Label |
Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie
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ReplyDeleteUh oh! I'm going to have to try this. They are gorgeous, Stephanie. TFS
ReplyDeleteThank you Sue! Have fun with it .... & be prepared for a little mess! But it's easy to clean up!
DeleteThank you, Michelle! I really appreciate your comment!
ReplyDeleteOh,Wow! This turned out amazing! I've been playing with the brushos and the country floral embossing folder...I'm going to have to try the woodland one! Beautiful card, Stephanie!
ReplyDeleteThanks RaeDeen! Have fun - it's quite addictive!
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