Hello and welcome to Crafting with JaneA. I have been a crafter for many years now and enjoy all type of paper crafting, cardmaking, mixed media, as well as crochet, sewing and upcycling, I hope to bring a bit of what I love to my channel and inspire and encourage you in wherever your crafting journey takes you.
As promised yesterday, here is the second part of my lovely framed backgrounds using Brusho and Vegas Gold Shimmer Paint.
This is a snowflake card using the dies from the Seasonal Layers Framelits makes a beautiful clean and simple card by just putting the frame and a sentiment on a white card base.
Good quality Water Colour Paper is essential and Stampin Up Watercolour paper is excellent.
As always here is a FREE video tutorial, to show you exactly how I made this card.
Stitched Shapes Framelits give you the picture frames. Take the largest and second largest squares and follow the video.
Here is the first video in this series which shows you how I started the night sky background
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Creating backgrounds for cards can be great fun and easy to achieve lots of different looks. In this tutorial and accompanying video I have used great quality watercolour paper as my base. By using a good heavy weight water colour paper you achieve some lovely results as the water does not pill or breakdown the paper, which can happen if you use an inferior paper.
Brusho, five little pots of concentrated powdered ink, in this first example I have just used the Brilliant Red. I will also show you in a further blog another lovely example using the Prussian Blue, so pop back to see this.
To make the little frames I used the Stitched Shapes Framelitswhich are gorgeous circles, squares and oval dies, four of each shape with a pretty stitched border.
and finally the gorg0eus Winter Woods Bundle. If you love everything trees, then this is the bundle for you.
So here is a step by step video tutorial to show you how to make this lovely background and frame to put it in. Please look at subscribing to my YouTube channel so you don't miss any up and coming videos. I post regularly and have over 100 current videos with lots of tips and ideas for your crafting.
Thank you for stopping by and look forward to seeing you again soon. Oh don't forget I will be posting another tutorial showing you what I did with the Prussian Blue Brusho with the Shimmer paint. If you love snowflakes then you won't want to miss this one.
THE STAMPARATUS is in my opinion the best positioning tool on the market. Two removable plates and hinge step stamping. It really is the easiest and simplest positioning tool to make your stamping projects perfect every time.
These 4 cards were made simply using the brusho crystals to create a simple background and then stamped using the Stamparatus to make multiple card making easy.
DANDELION WISHES make a great silhouette stamp and stamps over a coloured background easily. This stamp set is only £19and comes in red rubber, a real bargain.
Heres a video to show you how I created these four cards in minutes. Please look at subscribing to my channel and blog as I post regularly with lots of different ideas for your projects using the latest Stampin Up products.
Thanks to everyone who has already subscribed and for all your lovely comments they are truly appreciated and warm my heart and give me inspiration to produce more videos.
Hello and welcome to Amethystarcrafting. My nme is Jane Allmark and I'm a UK Independent Stampin Up Demonstrator.
BRUSHO. crystals are little pots of crystal pigment ink which if you sprinkle on cardstock or watercolour paper and spritz with water burst into fabulous colours.
In this background piece I used DAISY DELIGHT stamp set and embossed the image randomly in gold, silver and black embossing powder.
How to Use Brusho Two Ways
First use Brusho as watercolour paint. Shake a few crystals on a block and add a little water with an AQUA PAINTER. and then paint with the aqua painter. I did this for the centres of the daisies.
Sprinkle Brusho onto your cardstock or watercolour paper and spritz to get a lovely mottled burst image. I did this on the background using Prussian Blue, Brilliant Red, Yellow and Gamboge.
By embossing your image first it gives a lovely textured detail to your project and if water colouring alone allows the water to stay inside the embossed areas.
Here is a close up of the project. Although the black embossing stands out clearer in the photograph the gold and silver are beautiful too as they shimmer which does not show up on the photo.
Give it a try and have fun with Brusho. All products are available through my shop just click HERE. or on any of the highlighted links or through the SHOP button at the top of the page.
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Hello and welcome to Amethystarcrafting. My Name is Jane Allmark and I'm a UK Independent Stampin Up Demonstrator.
Creating Backgrounds Using Brusho and the Waterfront Stamp set from Stampin Up
BRUSHO. Crystal Colour by Stampin Up come is 5 great colours, Prussian Blue, Moss Green, Gamboge (an orange) Yellow and Brilliant Red. Pierce a hole in the lid and shake a few crystals on some water colour paper and spritz with water and watch the colours burst.
Yesterday on my blog VIEW HERE. I showed you how to use Brusho to create a great watercolour background. This background I used Prussian Blue, Brilliant Red, Yellow and Gamboge with lots of water using our Spritzer to create this lovely washed look which compliments the WATERFRONT STAMP SET. perfectly. I stamped the mountains in Smoky Slate and then added the foreground trees in Basic Black.
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Hello and welcome to Amehystarcrafting. My name is Jane Allmark and I'm a UK Independent Stampin Up Demonstrator.
WATERFRONT STAMP SET. is a great set to give a water colour mountains, rivers and trees without having to be a water colour artist. This set is a steal at £15 and is becoming one of the fastest selling stamp sets in the Spring/Summer catalogue.
How to create a water landscape using Stampin Up Waterfront
Take a sheet of watercolour paper and cut to size. For this card I used 5.25" x 3.5"
Tape the watercolour paper to a firm board using washi tape or low tack masking tape. This will stop the watercolour paper warping and bending too much as this technique using a lot of water.
With the Brusho crystals and the Moss Green and Yellow sprinkle some of the crystals onto the watercolour paper.
Using the Spritzer start spraying the paper and watch as the crystals burst into colour. Keep spritzing spraying in different directions to move the colour around.
Use some kitchen roll to dab the excess water from the taped edge.
Repeat the process again until you get the effect you want.
This process wants the image to have a washed watery water colour look so the more water you spray the lighter the colours will be.
Leave the image taped to the board until it is completely dry. This will take a little while or just put it on one side overnight.
When completely dry remove the tape carefully. Trim if needed or leave the white border whichever is your preference.
Using the Waterfront Stamp Set stamp the mountains in Wild Wasabi, Night of Navy and Marina Mist and the trees in Wild Wasabi. Choose the ink pads which match your Brusho background. The colours I chose matched mine.
Mount on a coordinating cardstock and add a sentiment if you choose. I left this card blank as I wanted the image to stand alone.
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These papers can be coloured using our Stampin Write Markers or Blends or coloured using our sponge Brayer and an inkpad of choice. These will sell out very quickly so please don't delay in placing your qualifying as I would hate for you to miss out.
On a piece of scrap paper punch out a pattern using the Leaf Punch. Do this on several pieces of scrap paper as once the scrap paper has been spritzed you will need to throw it away as it will not hold and will buckle. Copy paper is ideal for this.
Place the copy paper over the water colour paper and hold down with one leaf image with fingers and sprinkle some Moss Green Brush over the leaf cut out. Just a few sprinkles Brusho goes a long way. Lightly spritz and then with an Aquapainter just outline the image. With a piece of kitchen roll dab off excess water. Do this with each of your stencil leaves.
BIGGEST TIP. Do not use too much water as it will seep under the stencil and cause a splotchy image.
Now take a fresh piece of copy paper with the Leaf Punch stencil and using the Gamboge which is a lovely orange colour repeat the process.
By dabbing with kitchen roll you can control the amount of colour transferred to the water colour paper allowing for a more subtle muted look, which is perfect for this card.
The background speaks for itself so I just added a simple sentiment and mounted on black cardstock on a white card base.
BRUSHO is a great investment as these little pots will last forever as you only ever use a few crystals, whatever you are doing.
Here is a technique video from Stampin Up with some other fun ideas to try.
Using the Brusho sprinkle the powder on the opened embossing folder on one side. You will get a different effect depending whether you use the emboss or deboss side.
Spray with spritzer filled with water. Do not over spritz just a fine mist.
Place a piece of cardstock over the spritzed side.
Close embossing folder and rub over it with your hands. Pay attention to all the corners.
Open the embossing folder and carefully peel the cardstock off.
Colours I used, for the butterfly. Prussian Blue, Brilliant Red and Gamboge and on the other butterfly Brilliant Red, Yellow and Gamboge. On the Tree I used just Moss Green and Yellow.
Allow to dry thoroughly.
BIGGEST TIP. Do not over saturate with water as this will make the colours run to much and will bleed onto the embossing folder and the imprint will not be clear.
You can get several prints just by re spritzing the embossing folder and adding a second piece of cardstock. If you need a little extra colour just sprinkle some more brusho onto the embossing folder.
Cardstock. To be quite honest I have used just ordinary whisper white cardstock and as long as you are only spritzing lightly the effect is fine. TIP. I used a whole piece of cardstock A4 and then trimmed it after it had dried so there is no warping. You can always used watercolour paper or shimmery white.
Watercolour ink crystals—Sprinkle them directly on water-washed paper and watch the colours burst!
* Package includes 5 pots, 1 each of 5 colours: Brilliant Red, Gamboge (orange), Moss Green, Prussian Blue, Yellow * 0.5 oz. (14 g) each pot
Here is video from Stampin Up showing you some of the other ways to use Brusho Crystals. To buy yours CLICK HERE.
Hello and welcome to Amethystarcrafting. My name is Jane Allmark and I'm a UK Independent Stampin Up Demonstrator.
I'm so excited to share with you Brusho. 5 pots of crystalized powdered ink in Prussian Blue, Mossy Green, Brilliant Red, Gamboge and Yellow. Pierce a little hole in the top of the pot and shake onto wet cardstock to create the most amazing colour bursts.
For this card I used the
Magical Day Bundle. which is a coordinating stamp set and framelits with a wizard, a dragon, unicorn, mermaid and a little knight.
How to create Brusho stormy sky background.
Take a piece of watercolour paper, whisper white cardstock, shimmery white cardstock or any cardstock you wish. You will get a different effect on each.
Using our spritzer totally wet the cardstock.
Using the Prussian Blue shake the crystals onto the wet cardstock. A little goes a long way. Spritz again and see the colour burst and travel across the cardstock.
In the centre of the card add some Mossy Green and wait a few moments for thecolour to burst again.
Take a paper towel and blot excess water, then spritz again.
Continue with both colours until you get the desired effect. If you don't like it or it gets too blended just blot with paper towel and start again.
Once desired effect achieve leave to dry naturally.
This really is a unique technique as you will not achieve the colour bursts with any other medium.
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