Brusho Crystal Colour card #3

Created by Stacey Cogswell
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I've been having fun trying to figure out how to use all the pretty papers I made with the Brusho Crystal Colour. I've decided that it's a lot easier to use a small piece of the paper instead of covering the entire background. For this card I knew I wanted to color the shoes  with the Brusho to look like denim, so I also used the Blue Brusho to create a stone washed denim looking piece of paper as well.  I let very little white space, just enough to give it interest. I have a "three" rule, which means you pick a color and place it on three different places on the card. For this card, it's the silver. I placed a piece of silver paper behind the die cut stars, silver embossed the greeting and added silver embossed dots on the Brusho strip of paper. I like the "three" rule because I feel that it's more pleasing to the eye and it gives balance to the card.

Products Used to Create this Card:

Stamp set: Epic Celebration. A free Sale-a-bration items with a $50 order
                  Magical Mermaid for the "sand" stamp to embossing dots onto the Brusho paper strip
Card Stock: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Silver Foil and Water Color paper
Ink: Blue Brusho Crystal Colour, VersaMark
Accessories: Silver Embossing Powder, Night of Navy Marker for faux stitching, Mini Treat Bag Thinlits (Stars) and Stitched Shapes Framelits

Hope you like it!
Smiles,
Stacey

Brusho paper card #2

Created by Stacey Cogswell
Copyright Stampin'Up!

As promised, I did a little more playing with the Brusho Crystal Colour and I'm much happier with the way this card turned out. I think it's because the Brusho did completely take over the paper and let some white space. Sorry the picture is a little fuzzy, but you can see the back ground pretty good. To create this look I used bubble wrap. Just sprinkle the Brusho onto the bubble warp, spritz with water and press the paper down onto the bubble wrap.  

Here is another sample using similar piece of background paper. If you look close you will see differences in the background, because with Brusho no two backgrounds ever look the same. I love the red shoes with this and I think I like this even better than the panda. 

Supplies used to create these cards:

Stamp sets: Party Panda and Epic Celebrations. Both Sale-a-brations sets, which are free with a $50 order.

Card Stock: Real Red, Whisper White and Water Color Paper.

Ink: Brusho Crystal Colour, Real Red and Black 

Accessories: Layering Oval Framelts, Balloon punch, Banner punch, White Gel pen and Tutti-Frutti Sequins. 

Hope this will inspire you to keep playing with the Brusho colour and I will have one more card for you in the coming days.

Enjoy!

Stacey

Brusho paper sample #1

I played with my new Brusho Crystal Colour until my fingers were every color under the sun. For this card, I sprinkled the Brusho on to an open embossing folder, spritzed it with water (too much water I think), adding the water color paper face down and then ran it through the Big Shot.  It's pretty cool how the color bleeds and blends together to create all kinds of color, but it I had not added so much water there may have been a few white spaces left open. I think I will have to do a little more experimenting with the technique.

Created by Stacey Cogswell
Copyright Stampin'Up!

Supplies Used to Create this Card:
Stamp set: Falling Flowers
Dies: May Flowers Framelits
Card Stock: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz and Water color paper
Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Night of Navy and Momento
Accessories: Alcohol Blends markers, Layered Leaves embossing folder, Big Shot, small corner rounder punch (sorry, retired)