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Charmaine Ikach is a stay-at-home mom of two little girls, ages 3 and 1 (with a little boy on the way), and a SU Demo from Pittsburgh, PA.

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Bouncing Brayer Tutorial

by Charmaine Ikach

Create a groovy background with a multicolored ink pad and brayer!

Supplies

Kaleidacolor® ink pad (Caribbean Sea used here)

Brayer with rubber attachment

Neutral Cardstock (Whisper White here) NOTE: Glossy White cardstock works too!

Solid stamps

8.5”x 5.5” piece of cardstock for the card base (Taken with Teal here)

Paper Trimmer

Additional cardstock for layering

Embellishments of choice

Step By Step

Step 1.
Push the palette of theKaleidacolor pad together and ink the brayer.

Step 2.
Bounce (don’t roll) the brayer on neutral cardstock, making sure to keep one end of the brayer at the center of the cardstock. Continue to bounce brayer on cardstock while rotating cardstock with free hand. Re-ink brayer as needed.

Step 3.
Depending upon how much “white space” is desired, either stop here or keep bouncing brayer around cardstock adding ink. Here, no white space was wanted, so the cardstock was rotated and ink applied until all white space was filled with color.

Step 4.
Stamp focal images.

Step 5.
Trim, embellish and finish card!

Your Turn

You've seen the tutorial, now you try it! We've got a section of the gallery set aside for Bouncing Brayer. Try this technique, then upload your artwork to the gallery. Show us your creations!

Questions and Comments

Have any questions about this tutorial? Any neat tips you've discovered that you'd care to share with the rest of us? Be sure and hit the comments link in the right-hand sidebar.