Something Saturday - A few Brayer Ideas

 Hi There Creators

Today I'm showing off a couple of ways to use your Silicone Brayer, I'm using some of the goodies that are discounted and on the retiring list (check out the whole list here: Last Chance Products)

The first technique I showed off is the one we used on Friday & Saturday in my regular classes.  this involves Inking the brayer on the corner of the ink pad, so you get triangular shapes on your brayer (and you don't run the brayer over the whole ink pad), gives a cool background effect, I then teamed it up with the gorgeous, sadly retiring Layers of Beauty (if you don't have this set you can get stamps - just discovered these have sold out😢, dies and masks, which are really beautiful  and the Purple Shimmer Gems  (and all reduced)! - different links for each product

The next technique involves inking the brayer up properly, but then only using partially on the background, then adding another colour and repeating it, again giving a great background effect, this one I paired up with the retiring Inspiring Imperfections Stamp set again there is also dies and an embossing folder Oh and the punch is retiring too: Labelled with Love punch   and bling in the form of Faceted Gems trio pack (all discounted woo hoo!)

Next up I used a thin mask, cut from post-it notes with the retiring Joyful Squares Dies, the mask needs to be really thin (as in copy paper thin) for the brayer to work well with it. I've also used the With You in Mind Stamp set and the leaves come from Layers of Beauty Dies (see link above)  and the Iridescent Foil Gems (again all discounted)

Then the last technique is brayering directly onto the inside of one side of an embossing folder, then either press it down, or run it through the Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine, in the video I just add the Pumpkin pie, but then when I was making it up into a card I brayered granny apple green over top to create the 2 colours which I love the look of!, and I couldn't resist curling it round (like a turtles back!) I've used the Turtle textures embossing folder, the Turtle-y Awesome Stamp set and matching dies and even the Shades of Green Hexagon embellishments (all retiring- and discounted)!

I'm beginning to feel like ALL my goodies that are retiring are actually discounted too!, although I know a few things aren't discounted, there is sooooo much that is! don't forget to check out all the goodies here: Last Chance List.

If you missed the video here it is:

I hope these inspire you to dig out your brayer and get creating too!

God Bless love
Heather xox

Something Saturday - Sunflower 3D Embossing Folder

 Hi There Creators,

last Saturday I showed you this embossing folder: Sunflowers 3D Embossing Folder, which is absolutely gorgeous! Its a large A5 sized folder.  Today I thought I'd show you how I created the 2 pieces I showed off last week, you'll need (obviously the embossing folder!), a Stampin' Brayer, inks and Blending Brushes.

And here's what I created: I ended up cutting one of them into 1/4's and doing something different with each 1/4

then the next one I cut up into 2 long strips 

If you've watched the video, you'll know I had to cut out a section owing to inking it up wrong, so I've cut this next one in 1/2 the other way, and created these 2 cards:

then lastly I kept one whole and created an A5 sized card front from it:

With this one I ended up embossing another piece and cutting some flowers out to add them up on dimensionals.  I'm quite proud of it and hubby reckons its one of my best cards (high praise!)  Absolutely no idea what I'm going to do with it (other than displaying it in my class room🤣)

One of things I thought I should highlight to you is that I decided to use my fine tip glue pen to add an interesting "plastic'y" texture to some of the flowers,  usually I paint it on pretty thick to give a definitive shine, but this time I painted it on thinly and let it dry and you can see it gives a slightly wet/shiny look to it - must remember this in the future!

If you missed the video here it is:

I hope these cards inspire you to create

God bless love

Heather xox