This week's Merry Monday challenge was proposed by SCS's bon2stamp - a theme of "hearts".
I created a background with red and green brushos, sprinkled on watercolour paper and spritzed. The blue and yellow is actually part of the green brusho crystals! When dry, I dug out an old stamp of a Christmas heart - if you look closely you'll see it has holly leaves on it. Stamped it with my MISTI to get a good impression and heat embossed it. I added it to a red border and a cream cardbase.
I'm still working on my quota for June and July for Christmas cards, and June's SCS Christmas Card Challenge is to use pearls on a card, so I used my cream pearl pen to add dimension to the pearls in the image and to add a few random pearls to the background.
And it's for today's Mixed Media challenge at SCS - "Love It" (to use something you love). I love my brushos and I love making Christmas Cards. Plus it's a heart and the word "love" is in the sentiment so it fits all round! My mixed media are brushos, liquid pearls, and ink.
Registered: January 20, 2011 Location: Beautiful British Columbia Posts: 7619
Fri, Jul 31, 2015 @ 4:33 PM
Your brushos background is gorgeous Susan. I'm so impressed that you sprinkled red and green and didn't end up with brown ... that's what usually happens to me often when I mix complementary colours. Great job ... and a beautiful heart image. xx
Registered: December 14, 2007 Location: Vancouver canada Posts: 8914
Fri, Jul 31, 2015 @ 5:52 PM
Susan, that background is beautiful. The colours you get with with both bister and brusho just as they break down into their primaries is amazing, it really reminds us how colours are created. Wonderful card. Its definitely time for us to get together and play
Registered: January 6, 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 20543
Fri, Jul 31, 2015 @ 7:01 PM
I just love these backgrounds you all are creating with the Brushos. This is lovely!
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Sat, Aug 01, 2015 @ 12:36 AM
What a stunning background, Susan, in those classic Christmas colours. I'm a big fan of Liquid Pearl as decor, I counted it as of of my loves for this challenge.