Sunday 28 September 2008

Halloween flavoured

This card kinda made itself...spooky. Here's it's story....
I have a small brayer I decided should get dirty at least once it it's life, I'd seen other works of art which had been made using a brayer & thought it time I joined in the fun. So on that I took down my Adirondack dye inks to choose the colours, but that's where it all started, with these 2 colours I didn't really choose. You see I picked out a red & orange just to see what they'd look like on a piece of scrap card & to test out my brayer techniques. I firstly stamped the word 'art' in black, I then wanted to see what the 2 colours would look like together over this word..... Wow that's gone well looks good at this stage, I then find myself sponging on black chalk ink around the edges
which start to really set of the stamped image.
Out then come more stamps with me looking for a nice swirly kind of stamp which I find, inked that up in black & stamped it around the edge finishing it of with a white soufflé pen. I then echo the swirly stamp on the black card by inking it up with Adirondack snow cap pigment ink.
I look at the finished card & see a halloweeny looking card looking back at me. It's only the colours that have given it that look, but I'm thinking this is just a bit spooky what with Halloween just around the corner & I didn't set out to make a card or any thing else for halloween....... or did I








7 comments:

  1. Fab work! Hope you get your brayer out more often!

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  2. Definately a spooky feel

    Love that art stamp and the swirls I don't think a girl can have too many swirls!!!

    I've only just got my brayer and enjoy playig with it I must remember not to get so enthusiastic when brayering after the first inking up lol!!

    TC and TFS

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  3. It's so exciting when we just decided to play and what wonderful things happen. Great job!

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  4. Great brayering, especially as it's not as easy as it looks LOL! The black and white really set off your colours.

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  5. I love your card! I really like what you did with the different feel of it. Thanks for your comments on my blog!

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  6. Fabulous card Jenny and I love the story that comes with it! I bet your brayer will be getting dirty more than once in it's life now :)
    Ann x
    Just had a thought - since you're new to brayering, you might not have tried this technique:http://spiritofcreativitytutorialblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/background-technique-with-versamark-and.html

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  7. Its gorgeous - I so want a brayer - love that CP art stamp too.

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