Mono Printing with a brayer

I thought with all the talk of mono printing I'd show one of  the ways I like to make backgrounds

Ink up your brayer 50-50 with two colour inks ( or use a big and juice/ kalidacolour pad ) here I have used eggplant and lettuce.




Roll the brayer back and forth on a clear acrylic block this will blend the 2 colours and spritz with water or a water and mica mix the amount of water will depend on how absorbent your paper or card is .





Next stamp it onto your card. Now you have a unique background for stamping on or die cutting

Kiss Resist Technique

Not as daunting as you might think you just need the right stamps :)

You will need
Glossy card
Dye ink
Versamark
1 patterned line stamp
1 mainly solid shadow type stamp

Ink up the detailed stamp with the coloured dye ink and the solid stamp with the versamark ink, now press the two together this will transfer the dye ink onto the solid stamp, next stamp the solid stamp onto the glossy card and allow to dry ( if doing this on regular card stock now is the time to emboss with clear embossing powder )

Now you can add ink to the background and wipe off the resist area

If you chooses to use a text stamp remember it will stamp out in reverse.

Also check out Neets Resist Techinques
Stamps used Tim Holtz and Anna Griffin Allnight media

Serendipity

A tutorial for Just For Fun Challenge

Years ago when I learnt this it was called serendipity now they are calling it restructured paper well that's progress lol


What do you need, not a lot, what ever you have in your scrap box plus copy paper and glue of your choice.

select your scraps and stick them randomly covering the copy paper.( add punch out waste if you like )



Once your happy with the results you can stamp or emboss both if your like to tie the piece together



Now you have a unique piece of back ground paper you can do with what ever you like, cut it up and make inches punch shapes out of it or just use it as a background .




Not got any scraps not a problem :) tear colours out of a magazine

 

Bleach

Well I've had a bleaching session the thinnest cheapest bleach really is the best to use.

You can make a paper pad or use a makeup sponge for your bleach and use like an ink pad :) and if your worried about using your stamps use kiddies foam shapes cheap and cheerful and some funky shapes.

One thing I will say if you can never tell what colour you will end up with and I got the best results with cheap coloured copy paper. the blue and pink really did go white.I also used a brush to get the stripey patten