Heather Telford recently made these beautiful snowflake card (Powdered snowflakes by Heather T at Splitcoaststampers) by painting on the stamp with a paintbrush and water, stamping it, and then sprinkling brushos on the wet impression of the image. I really wanted to try her technique.
As Heather pointed out in her blog post (https://cards.heathertelford.com/201...d-snowflakes/), it's tricky to get the right amount of water so I did a couple of practice attempts and then did this one and was pretty happy with the results.
I used two shades of red brushos on watercolour paper. I left it to dry, then brushed off any stray bits of brushos, and stamped my sentiment. I backed it with fun foam and then popped it up on a layer of red cs that has very subtle gold shimmer in it. I added three gold sequins for embellishment.
The card is also for the CAS Watercolour challenge where the February theme is "love". Here's the link if you want to join in:
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Fri, Feb 03, 2017 @ 4:44 PM
Oh, I LOVE the sentiment!!!! So perfect for a Valentine!
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Sat, Feb 04, 2017 @ 11:11 PM
Your sketch heart turned out beautifully Susan using Heather's technique. I still have that technique on my wishlist. So glad you tried it...you are inspiring me my friend. TFS your gorgeous CAS card. Hugs...
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Fri, Feb 10, 2017 @ 2:40 PM
I had not seen the explanation of Heather's snowflake, so thanks for explaining it. Your heart turned out lovely! I have only used my brushos once so far. You have given me a new way to try them now!
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