Apologies, what with all the excitement of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and a quick trip to Paris I am running behind with my posts. June’s technique is Brayering and this post has a card that I made today using this technique.
I have to admit that this is a technique that I have not attempted before so it took me a while to come up with something that (a) was not too complicated for a first attempt and (b) I am happy to share the finished product with you.
For those of you who don’t know what a Brayer is, it is “a hand roller used in printmaking to spread ink”. There are a number of types available, Soft Rubber, Hard Rubber, Foam and Acrylic. The soft rubber ones are the most commonly used and this is the type I used and which is in the Stampin’ Up! Catalogue.
For the first project, I decided to use the brayer to make a simple background layer from a piece of Whisper White card stock for my card.
I then ran the background through my Big Shot using the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, but I only embossed two thirds of the front. I then used my Sanding Block over the embossed part so that the Whisper White card stock showed through.
Here is the finished card. I used Soft Suede, Baja Breeze and Cherry Cobbler card stock to cover the one third that I had not embossed and used the Scallop Edge Border punch on them. The card base is a piece of Not Quite Navy and I also used another piece of Baja Breeze.
The greeting from the Sincere Salutations stamp set was stamped in Not Quite Navy and then punched out using the Decorative Label punch.