Brayered Sky Card

Here's a technique that gives you the opportunity of getting very inky with your stamp pads and brayer!  Here's how it's done.

You will need a piece of smooth white cardstock, a brayer, some Post It notes and three colours of ink pad in different shades. I used Stampin' Up! inks in shades Barely Banana, So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie.

Begin by tearing your Post It notes in half and sticking them to the bottom of your cardstock.

 

Take your lightest ink colour (in this case Barely Banana) and brayer it across the bottom until you have a good coverage.

   

Next, layer the second darkest colour (in my example So Saffron)  in the middle, and the darkest colour (Pumpkin Pie) at the top of the cardstock. Don't worry if it looks stripey, like mine - that can be fixed! :O)

   

Use either a dry sponge or Cut and Dry Foam to dab extra ink onto the cardstock to blend all the colours together as shown above.  Finish off by dabbing just a little of the darkest colour at the bottom of the cardstock, on the line of the Post It notes.  Once you're happy with your effect, you can remove the Post It notes.

 

This background looks most effective using sillhouette type stamps.  The stamp I have used is from the Stampin' Up! Lovely As A Tree set.

 

Ta-da!  The completed card!  There's no reason why this technique cant be used to make fantastic ATC's as well as greeting cards.  Try experimenting with different colours and see what you can come up with.  Here's another background I've done but not finished yet:

 

This one was done using Stampin' Up! colours in Pretty In Pink, Brocade Blue and Night of Navy. 

Play around and have fun with this technique!

TFL! Joanne xxx

Comments

[katie squirrel]

Lovely cards! What a great technique and very effective too - thanks!

[Em]

I adore that card Joanne!

[Caroline]

Gorgeous- I love those inks!!!

[Caroline]

Gorgeous- I love those inks!!!

[Lesley]

I have that stampin up set and I hsall now have a go as this card thanks