Sometimes you make a card that you just fall in love with. The idea or technique is magical, and you want to make more but with a twist. For me that’s the best time to make a one layer card – especially with a brayer! When I use I brayer, I feel like an artist with a blank canvas. Here is the result of my fun playtime in the studio.
This card is the result of a full sized layered card I made a week ago. I kept going back to my card because I just fell in love with the three colors brayered together – Bashful Blue, Pool Party, and Island Indigo. Each color lent a vibrant layer to this masterpiece. And that’s really the word to use with brayered cards. The colors begin to blend together forming a new hue. The end result can never be duplicated as you’ll never remember exactly how many times you rolled each color and exactly which position – truly creating a one of a kind masterpiece with each new card.
For this simple but elegant card, I tore a piece of scrap paper and used Dotto adhesive to temporarily hold it over the white areas of the card. I left only the area I wanted color deposited on exposed.
- Start off your paper with your brayer, slowly moving toward the center. This way you stay in control of the depth of the color you are working with.
- By stopping a bit short towards the center, you can give the illusion of light by keeping some of the white there and depositing the least amount of color with your brayer.
- Keep your brayer on the work surface to get that even watercolor effect, do not lift it – that’s how you get start/stop uneven marks.
- Begin with your lightest shade working to the darkest.
- Experiment with two complimenting colors on the brayer like Pool Party and Island Indigo, start with the lighter and then add a little of the darker.
Here you see my original card from my Artistic Snowflakes post and the one layer card I made to compliment it. It makes a cool set together!
And one layer cards are nothing if not cost effective. All you need is a half sheet of White cardstock for your card (I recommend a good cardstock though, like Stampin’ Up!’s Whisper White, don’t use a cardstock that is too porous, you won’t like the end result )– the rest I leave up to your imagination.
Creatively yours –
Ingrid
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Stamp Sets – Snowflake Soiree (127925), Sweet Essentials (128315) Paper – Whisper White (100730), Midnight Muse (126843) Ink – Midnight Muse (126860), Island Indigo (126986), Pool Party (126982), Bashful Blue (126961), Not Quite Navy (126971), Night Of Navy (126970) Cool Tools –Brayer (102395), 1” square punch The Perfect Finish – Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Rhinestone Basic Jewels (119246)