BRUSHOS & OTHER POWDERS

 Highly pigmented powders like Brushos, Cosmic Pixie Powders, Nuvo Shimmer Powders, Lindy's Magical Shakers etc have been around for a few years now and they are always a quick and easy way to create a background.  You can use them as they are, just a few gentle shakes, spritz with water and you get wonderful explosions of colour, or you can spritz your watercolour card first with water and then add. You can also just mix a single colour by itself on a piece of acetate to create one colour and use that for painting your background or your stamped designs. I've used a few different ways to create these backgrounds, including bleaching out a stamped image and then re-colouring with the pigment powders!

"Soul food"
(background & leaf shape coloured with Brusho
& Lindy's Magical Shaker powder)

"Soar"
(background created with Lindy's Magical

Shakers, trees stamped and Twinklets Diamond Dust

under the trees for extra sparkle)

"What the flock?"

(background using black Brushos only, then

bleached the stamped birds and re-coloured

with Nuvo Shimmer Powders)

"Curiosities"

(background with Nuvo Shimmer Powders and

Cosmic Pixie Powders, stamped skulls bleached

and re-coloured with Nuvo Shimmer Powders)


"If lost"

(background with Lindy's Magical Shakers &

Cosmic Pixie Powders, octopus stamped, embossed

and bleached)

"Wild side"

(background with Brushos and finger-painted

to blend, then Amsterdam Bronze paint applied

roughly on the bottom, overstamped with rocks

stamp and Amsterdam Pewter paint added. Tree

is JAC paper die-cut with brown foil applied)

"Let's party"

My granddaughter (7) wanted to do one herself

so this is her version of my What the flock?  She used

my stamp positioner so stamping was easy, I did the

bleaching for her and showed her how to colour

the birds with the Nuvo Shimmer Powders. She's

going to gift it to a friend at a holiday park we

are going to next week. 🥰

ALCOHOL INKS & ACETATE EMBOSS

I wanted to stay with acetate this fortnight as it was such a joy to work with at the last class so I combined a few favourites to make our backgrounds for this class  -  alcohol inks, acetate, embossing folders and a little coloured foil.  I didn't use the embossing folders on all of the backgrounds as I think you can get a great look just using the alcohol inks on un-embossed acetate.  You have to decide which side you'll stick down to your white card (this shows off the alcohol inks to their best advantage) as some of the alcohol inks in thicker areas stay sticky.   I just used the old trick of pressing some coloured foil onto the sticky bits and this transfers the foil and stops the stickiness.  I used either double-sided adhesive paper all over the back of the acetate piece to attach it to the white card, or just used skinny red-liner tape as this is the most transparent tape.  By the time you add all your bits & pieces to the top, you really don't notice the tape anyway.  Yes, I used the same wording on two of the atc's as the colouring and wording suited both.  😏

 "Potential side effects (#1)"

"Aquaholic"

"Use your wings"

"Potential Side Effects (#2)"
(no embossing folder used)

"Not what they seem"

"Foreboding"
(no embossing folder used)