Thursday, August 13, 2020

Paint and embossing

 In my stamp group this week the challenge was to use a brayer and add paint to the flat side of the embossing folder so the color would be in the background, much like I have done with inks in the past.  I had never tried that before and I will say I probably will never do so again, LOL!

I was not really happy with my outcome, had to throw the first one away because I had too little paint on it. This attempt I went with just because I wasn't in the mood for all the clean up that is involved. But I know there are those of you that don't mind getting messing and like working with paints and such so I thought I would share here just incase you would like to give it a try. 

We were to use at least two paints on the folder and I went with a yellow and green, brayerd the green over the leaves area and the yellow onto the empty area.  

You can see in this next picture is what it looked like coming out of the embossing folder, I had a lot of areas around the leaves that were white and I just didn't like that, so I took a bit of the paint with my paint brush and filled in the spots.  I still didn't care for the leaves and all that to be white so I decided to use some rub on metallic to go over the birds and branches.  Still not sure what I think about it.

Recollections - Bird on branch embossing folder

Ranger Acrylic paint - Adirondack, Lettuce

Ranger Acrylic paint - Jenni Bowlin - Lemon drops

Craf-T - Metallic rubons

Hero Arts - Everyday sayings sentiment stamp

Studio G - gems

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and have a great day!

Connie

9 comments:

Esther Asbury said...

Well your finished card turned out beautifully in spite of you not enjoying the process so much! I know the feeling though -- I hate throwing things away, and tend to not repeat techniques that don't turn out well on the first try.

Donna Phelan said...

So Beautiful! Great technique!

anakdenesor said...

i dont know how to use acrylic paint..hyee follow you

Leslie Miller said...

It sounds messy, but I like how yours turned out. I've never had much luck with this technique even with ink, yet I keep trying. Pretty embossing folder and I do like the painted look of your background.

aussie aNNie said...

Wonderfully made card with the brayer, those colours are fabulous. . xx

Lowcarb team member said...

Well, I think you have done well here and 'just a note cards' are always so useful.

All the best Jan

Kim said...

It does look like a tricky technique but I think you have done wonders. Such gorgeous colours in this card. They sing!

Louca por porcelana said...

sweet card!

Janice said...

Great job of this technique. Gorgeous colour combination too.