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The Brayer....

My newest favourite Stampin Up tool. On Saturday I was one of the Demonstrators who manned the brayer table on Product Playground at our Brisbane Stampin Up Heartfelt Event. Because of this opportunity I have come up with so many different ways to use the brayer I decided to make up a Brayer Sample book. Here are a few pages...

Background using ink refills dropped on to acetate and brayered. Then place gloss card face down and brayer

Ink refills dropped on card, fine cotton wrapped around brayer and glad wrap wrapped around brayer

Background is various thicknesses of cotton wrapped around brayer, masking, ink refills spritzed on card and brayered

Using the embossing folder with white craft ink and dazzling diamonds.

Background bleached bubblewrap and felt snowflakes dipped in bleach and brayered. Resist with clear gloss and versamark

Top background is brayered ink, spritzed and rock salt left to dry. Bottom background dark card brayered with white for misty look. Brayered and sanded, wax paper scrunched and ironed and brayered

Top background dark card brayered with string and then stamped with bleach. Bottom layer brayered in a frame Brayered and embossed stripes and tartan..

Background ink refills dropped on to acetate, spritzed and brayered, then gloss card placed face down and brayered.

I would like to share this sample book with all my Paper Angels Team as I think it would be a great training tool for new brayer users. Just ask me if you would like to borrow it for a class.

Oh just remembered..... please make sure when storing your brayer that you rest it on it's back.

Loving the Big Shot

The Big Shot is such a great machine. I find I am using it more and more with my projects. Gosh and to think that I once said I would never need this machine.
I was asked by a friend to make a book for her sons 21st birthday. She wanted something that all the guests could sign. I had forgotten that I took photos of this book until I downloaded my camera today. So pleased I did as it is always good to look back on what projects one does.
So here are the pics and a description on the pages......

I used some very thick craft board that I had put away "Just in Case" I could use it one day. I glued Very Vanilla card to both sides of it and then ran it through the big shot with the Scallop  Square die. I found a Celtic type cross online, so printed it off and cut it out so that I could make a mask. I sponged randomly over the page, spritzed all over, then removed the mask and spritzed a little more. I then covered it all in Versamark and clear embossing powder and heat embossed it.

For the back I prepared it the same way but instead of the Celtric Cross I cut out a 21 and stamped some keys.

All the other pages were covered with DSP. I cut out a frame from the now retired Beau Chateau DSP.
I made secret pockets and lots of tags that could be written on. The other DSP I used was the Neutrals Pattern Designer Series.
All the edges of the pages were sponged and then the pages were held together with rings.
I decorated the rings with bits of ribbon, string and a key.