Make It Mondays #38: Brayer Techniques

 It is time again for another Make It Monday Video, which can be found on Nichole Heady's blog for Papertrey Ink here:  Make it Monday Video.  This week, the technique is using an impression plate and then going over it with a brayer and ink to darken the raised areas and leave the impressed areas un-inked--is that a word?

I was inspired to use the woodgrain impression plate on Kraft cardstock, which reminds me of the wooden look and darker brown ink.  I ended up using Tim Holtz Distress ink, because it tends to give great coverage and blends well when going over larger areas. 

I love the way this technique turned out as I think it looks just like stained wood, which is perfect for the recipient of this card.  She has a lot of stained wood in her house that she paints folk art onto...so this is just her look :-) 

To go with the stained wood, I used the distressed pitcher with flowers coming out, because not only is she a great folk art painter, but she is also an excellent gardner and loves flowers.

The Mat Stack needed a border inside, so I drew around the inside with a Sakura glitter pen.  That pen is one of my all-time favorite tools!!!  I also added a little glitter in the center of each flower.  To add dimension, I popped up the Mat Stack 3 die on dimensional adhesive.

Thanks for looking :-)

Supplies
Stamps:  Papertrey Ink - Iconic Images
Impression Plate:  Papertrey Ink - Woodgrain
Dies:  Papertrey Ink - Mat Stack 3 and Layerz Mat Stack 3
Cardstock: Paperbilities - Kraft; Papertrey Ink - Dark brown, Burgandy, Green
Ink:  Papertrey Ink- Vintage Cream; Tim Holtz Distress Ink:  Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmelade; Colorbox - Chianti
Glitter Pen:  Sakura
Twine:  Papertrey Ink
Rhinestone: Michael's

Make It Monday #11: Embossing with Dies

I just love the challenge that Heather posted today on the Papertrey Ink blog.

She did such a great job making the clouds in the sky very dimensional. I decided to make dimensional circles on my card, but had to do it a little differently, because the buttons are not separate dies. So I used the dies to punch buttons out of PTI coasters (you can get a ton of buttons out of each one and the whole pack of 25 is only $1!). To keep the buttons in place, I applied removable dot adhesive to the back of the card and stuck the buttons right on before running it through the Cuttlebug.

I used 2 B plates and 2 tan mats and the sandwich seemed to give a deep impression.

After embossing, I attached raspberry fizz cardstock that had been punched with a Fiskars scallop punch. (I did it in this order on the second card that I made. On the first card, I attached the pink scallops before embossing and it left an embossed line embossed across the bottom of the green cardstock, so I had to redo it...craft & learn).

To make the embossed dots white, I used a dauber from Tsukineko and some white Colorbox chalk ink. I pieced the bee together by cutting out a few ovals with my Silhouette and the bee wings are made of a piece of baby blue vellum that I punched out with a heart punch and rounded the bottom with scissors. After all was assembled, I adhered the bee head with dimensional adhesive to add dimension, drew on the face with a black marker and Sakura Glaze pen, added the antenna and freehanded the heart trail. Finally, I went back with a white pen and drew in faux stitching.

Here is a detail shot of the bee:

The finishing touch was the sentiment which I printed out using the FREE Little Days font from www.dafont.com.

This was my first paper piecing...lots of fun to think up and put together :-)

The final product:

Thanks for the inspiration, Heather!!! Thanks for Looking :-)