Working with Brusho by Stampin' Up!

I love playing with Brusho........

it's like a powder paint that always amazes me when you add water..........

the particles have different colours, that when combined give you the colour on the pot,

but if you add a small amount of water you get a speckled effect.....

every time you get a different effect.

We experimented at a recent class, and made 2 cards.

The first is a background, made by sprinkling the Brusho, and spritzing with water.

The second, cased from Judy May, is watercoloured, mixing the Brusho with water, using a paint brush.

The "explosion" was pure fluke, I just turned the piece of card around to suit,

the circles are stamped with Playful Backgrounds, and the epoxy "bubbles" add cute detail.

The label used Tabs for everything, punched a circle and scalloped circle

I watercoloured the basket of flowers, adding shading, and some shadow underneath,

to "ground" the basket so it's not floating mid air.

I added the Sweet Soiree paper to the yellow card, then ran both through the Bigshot

using the new Basketweave embossing folder.

The butterfly is from the same Blossoming Basket set, and fussy cut.

We decorated the insides, and envelopes using Rose Wonder, Bloomin' Love,

and an old Papermania stamp set.

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Have a great weekend

Lesley

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Something Fishy going on.....

We did some zentangle at Club recently.

We had some 'open' stamps that we could doodle in to make patterns.

Some of my awesome zentangle friends will be unimpressed,

but it looks ok if you don't look too closely!

I found a leafy stamp for the reeds,

and for the bubbles I used Stampin' Up! Playful Backgrounds,

adding a bit of shading.

Googly eye completes the fun!

Hope your day goes swimmingly!

I cod be back tomorrow, bream-ing with more ideas.....

I expect you'll think of better puns huh?!

Go on....have a dab at it!

Lesley

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faux watercolour

Continuing my dogged determination to force my classmates

to get inky and arty with free brush strokes  and watercolour abandon,

I gave up, and decided to change tack slightly and do a faux

watercolour technique.

Needless to say they were much happier with this one !

we took the brush strokes from Playful Backgrounds

(any brush strokes would do)

stamp , turn upside down and second generation stamp

Stamp the sentiment over the top,

stamp and punch some pretty petite petals, and add some rhinestones.

So it wasn't a complete watercolour washout, I had fun,

and I think they did too ?!?

They all booked for the next class anyway!

Do join us for some crafty fun, we always have a laugh,

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Have a great week

Lesley

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Yay it's Party Time!

I went to a fun team gathering where we had gallons (and I mean gallons) of coffee,

cake and lots and lots of laughter.

One of the team kindly brought us all a make n take

using the Balloon Bouquet punch (140609), Balloon Celebration (140675),

and Playful Backgrounds (141920)

The Hostess with the mostest had these fab napkins,

which I didn't use, but kept because it's sooooo pretty and fun,

and love the colours black, white and melon mambo

(and I still have it, how mad/sad is that?!)

Here's another shot

and one more

as it was a bit tricky to get all the detail in

I hope you have a fun Sunday!

Lesley

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