Phoenix Inspirations

I have been told recently that many crafters find brayering difficult. With that in mind I have made a simple brayered card and broken it down into 7 easy steps. You will need: 5" x 5" card blank Dark card stock 4.75" x 4.75" White card stock 4.5" x 4.5" Speedball Brayer Large ink pad (suitable for inking up your brayer) & various other ink pads Post-it-notes Large circle punch Tree, foliage, sentiment stamps & image to be focal point ie - bird Scrap paper Glitter & adhesives . Step 1 Ink up image to be focal point and stamp onto white card stock. From a post-it-note punch a large circle ensuring that there is enough sticky to hold the circle in place on the card (see above). Also stamp main image onto a post-it-note and cut out. Step 2 Place mask onto main image and then from some scrap paper tear a piece roughly as above and place on card about halfway down. Secure with masking tape. You may find it useful to have a wad of paper u...

Here is the card I made for the 'Wild Wedding' challenge at Just Us Girls I made a Joy Fold card andI used Stampin' Up Very Vanilla card stock, 2 Step Bird Punch and Polka Dot Punches heart stamp, some Bazzill card stock (brown and white), gold embossing powder and my Floral Fantasy embossing folder in my Cuttlebug. This is the inside - again using the S'U Polka Dot Punches heart stamp. Hope you like it - see you soon - Jacqueline xx.