Fun with Brusho and water with Narelle

Today I have a fun pictorial for you on how I used Brusho with my Stamparatus. It was heaps of fun and something you should try real soon.

Once  it is dry, have fun making fun projects. I turned mine into a card.

I hope you enjoyed this fun technique and will give it a try soon.

Thanks for dropping by.

Have a great day.

Cheers,

Narelle

Creative Journey...with punched cards...& Lizzy

Hi there, my scrappy friends:)

Today I thought I'd take you on a creative journey...starting with a simple punched card. Even the UN-card maker peeps out there will be able to make these! Then, I'm going to take you beyond to something more;)

OK. I'm sure you've all got a load of punches lurking round...find a shape one - like a circle or square...this technique is best for taller, skinny cards. Do this to your piece of cardstock that you've cut to fit inside front of your card:

Next, take one of the punched out squares & using that STASH, match up 6 patterned papers & cut them slightly bigger than the square. Don't be fussy - you won't see the edges:)

Now simply stick these behind the 'windows' you've created. Here's the back [wrong] side:

And here's the other side, finished...you can add any number of embellies to this basic design:

Can you see I've made my 'window' card stock small enough that another layer fits behind it on the card as well? Soooooo....I quite enjoyed this....& thought I'd do a similar thing with my circle punch for a male card...using the same technique:

FAB stash busting! And I've finished with a bit of wood to show you how to spruce things up:

Then I got thinking - what if I made my own paper...you know, did a bit of misting over the shapes.....so out came the star punch - this one is an 'around the page' beauty. 

Using some Studio Calico packaging, which has a plasticised surface, I randomly stamped some stars, then misted through the stencil I'd made...

then, there was lots of mist left over, so I stamped that onto another piece of cardstock:

In the middle of doing this, I thought about a chevron mask I have & how these colours would look nice behind some butterflies...so I got side tracked & went & did this:

And even though I wasn't sure whether my butterfly punch would work, I thought I'd give it a shot...it was FINE....so I created this:

I know some of you will go 'Well, you could just punch the shapes & pop them on TOP of the card!' ..but I don't know, I LOVE the dimension, the peekaboo effect this gives:)

Then, I decided to try & use those stars up....so, using the star images, I grunged up this card -- along with some stars punched out from the left over chevron paper:

Isn't is AMAZING where a CAS, punched card can lead you? I hope you enjoyed this little journey through the way my brain thinks & that you can use some of the ideas here....ESPECIALLY if you are not usually a card maker;)

Happy scrapping, folks - Lizzy H ♥♥♥

Use those scraps of fabric and paper!

Hi there, today I´d like to share with you a little step-by-step tutorial on how I added canvas elements to my May "Fabric challenge" layout.

I first took a piece of white old T-shirt and cut some circles out of it.

Then I chose some Lindy´s Stamp Gang spray ink tones and sprayed the fabric circles in different colours.

Then I went along and stamped with a rubber stamps (N* Studio "Wired") and black archival ink over the circles and let them dry properly.

While the fabric was drying I started creating the background for my layout. I first applied some crackle paste thru a The Crafter´s Workshop stencil onto the background paper and let that layer dry.

After the paste was dry I applied some color splatters (using the same Lindy´s Stamp Gang colours like for the circles) onto the background for additional detail.

Then I used the same wired stamp and stamped some images with a grey dye ink onto the background.

I then cut some paper scraps into various sized pieces, inked their edges and glued them on their places.

Now that the fabric circles were all dry I could glue them down on their places. I applied them in clusters and also cut some additional circles out of a piece of residue misted paper (the smaller yellowish circles) and glued those down too.

Then I just used the same yellowish misted paper piece for adding some rub-on details to the page. I first rubbed the words onto the misted piece, outlined them with a black pen and then just fussy cut those.

And this is how the finished layout looks like. I have added some enamel embellishments and chipboard pieces as well as some rub-ons and puffy stickers for decoration. The title is outlined with a black Copic marker. I hope you get inspired to use those scraps of fabric and paper - they make for great additional elements on cards and layouts!! Have fun!

xoxo, Sanna