Mixed Media Brayer Background
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Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Cheiron Brandon to our blog! Read on for all the details on these fun mixed media cards and enjoy!
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Hi there crafty friends! It’s Cheiron Brandon here to share another project with Tim Holtz products today. For my cards today, I used the Tim Holtz Distress Brayer and Distress Spray Stains along with the newest Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Inquisitive stamps to create a set of guy cards with a fun Mixed Media background. When I make these types of cards with lots of products and layers, I always make a batch to have some on hand. Each one comes out just a bit different and it’s a great way to build your stash.
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To begin, I created the backgrounds with a brayer by spraying my Peacock Feathers Distress spray stain onto the craft sheet portion of my glass mat. I took the brayer and rolled and lifted it through the stain, coating the brayer with drips, then applying the brayer to my card panels which were cut to 3 ¾ x 5. I dried the paper with my heat tool and added the Vintage Photo Distress Spray stain the same way and dried the panels again.
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Once the panels were dry, I stamped the panel with stamps from the Inquisitive and Observations sets with Distress Oxides in Peacock Feathers, Vintage Photo and Tea Dye. I dried the panels again then stamped and embossed the ‘bullseye’ from the Inquisitive set onto each one and embossed them using Antique Linen Distress Embossing Glaze.
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To complete the cards, I stamped and fussy cut out one of the men from the Inquisitive set using Vintage Photo Archival ink. I gave each one some shading with Distress Inks ink Antique Linen and Dye using a Detailer Waterbrush. Once they were dry, I adhered them to the cards using foam tape. I stamped the sentiments and added a different one to each card, also using foam tape. I adhered the panel to an A2 card base of kraft cardstock.
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I hope you enjoyed this fun and easy way to create a background with your stains and brayers for a mixed media look on your cards!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Cheiron for being our guest!
I love these Inquisitive gentleman and cannot wait to use mine. Thanks for the inspiration!
Fantastic backgrounds!!! Thanks for the great ideas!!
I absolutely love this. I think I got rid of my brayer years ago, but now I will “need” a new one. Great job on this super cool project. Thanks for the inspirtion!
These are so cool!
I do like this upper class gent stamp, very fun & quirky as I would expect from Tim. Your backgrounds are really fun & very unique, I like them lots. Thank you for sharing these x
wonderful cards!!