Golden Brusho butterflies

These cards were inspired by Dena Albec. They use Beautiful Day stamp set and Brusho Crystals.

I first embossed the butterflies (on both cards) in gold embossing powder on Shimmery White card stock (Shimmery White is the best card stock to use with Brusho crystals).

I also gold embossed the sentiment on Dabber Denim Card stock for one of the cards.

Then I coloured the butterflies with different techniques. The first one I sprinkled brusho on the card and spritzed it with water. I added some water on the butterfly wings with aqua painter ti cover the entire butterfly with colour.

The second card I used aquapainter to add water on the spots where I wanted yellow colour, and then sprinkled Yellow Brusho on those areas. Then I added water on the areas where I wanted green and sprinkled Moss Green on the butterfly. I tried to keep the colours away from each other. Then I added Prussian Blue to the centre parts of the butterfly wings.

Magical Day

Here is another card made using the 'Magical Day' stamp set and the matching thinlits.

The background is made using Brusho Crystals. On this, I sprinkled the crystals on the card stock, and then spritzed it with water. You can see that the centre of the paper got quite wet, and the crystals blended more, and at the edges, the crystals make more of a splatter design. 

This card also has some dazzling diamonds. 

Here are some random Brusho techniques. These will become cards at some point.

This one I watered the paper with aquapainter, and then sprinkled the brusho (Prussian Blue and some Brilliant Red)

This one I sprinkled Prussian Blue Brusho on the paper and then sprized it with water.

This one is my favourite!
I sprinkled Brilliant Red and Yellow Brusho on the paper and spritzed it with water. Then I let it dry completely, and then drew some swirls on the paper with aquapainter and sprinkled some more Yellow Brusho on the paper. You can actually also paint with Brusho! Just use a piece of plastic (or a clear block), sprinkle some crystals on it and use your aquapainter to pick the colour up!

Celebrate You!

I love this 'Celebrate You' thinlits die, available as a Sale-a-bration freebie, when placing an order of $120. Don't worry, you can get it also later this year, as it will show up again in the next annual Catalogue, at the beginning of June 2018. It has 3 dies, two of which have been used in this card. The third spells 'amazing' which I'll show in the next post.

The stamp set on this one is 'Waterfront', from the Occasions catalogue p.48.

The background is made using Brusho Crystals, also on the Occasions catalogue, p.26. 

The Brusho Crystals are a cool way to make different kind of backgrounds, and I've been using them lately in almost all of my cards, just to try out different ways of using them. I'm also planning on doing a Brusho class, maybe towards the end of February, early March.

Also the cut out 'celebrate' is made using Brusho. I splashed Brusho on white card stock and once it dried, I cut out the word using the Celebrate You thinlits.