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Masculine Card With Brea Reese Alcohol Inks

October 17, 2019

Hey peeps. I’m back with another masculine card with Brea Reese alcohol inks. I know many of us struggle with making masculine cards. I’m trying to break that cycle and make at least one masculine card a week so I have plenty on hand when I need them. Making masculine cards with Brea Reese alcohol inks is quick and easy.

For today’s card I wanted to add lots of texture to my card for a really cool look. First I applied three darks colors of ink onto 110lb card stock with a blending tool. Next I came back in with a piece of felt wrapped around the edge of a straight ruler and laid down a few irregular stripes with yellow, red and green inks. This gave a great color variation. Once this panel was dried I ran it through my die cutting machine with an embossing folder. I have done this technique before and I always love how it looks.

Keeping this card clean and simple, I die cut out a quick thanks sentiment from Simon Says Stamp using brown and yellow card stock. Next I stamped out a sentiment from the Thankful Heart stamp set also from Simon Says Stamp and heat embossed it in gold embossing powder. I trimmed that piece down to form a small banner I could pop under the thanks die cut. I also swiped on a small amount of gold alcohol over there raised areas of the background. To finish off the card I adhered it to a yellow card base.

I’m so happy with the way this card turned out. What’s so amazing with the Brea Reese alcohol inks, the variations of backgrounds are endless. Here’s a close up of this stunning card. You can click on my Brea Reese Alcohol Inks link to see more projects from me.

I would love to see what designs you come up with using Brea Reese alcohol inks. Make sure to tag me on Instagram so I can see your work. Have a great day everyone and I’ll see you back here soon.

Galaxy Sky Background

October 2, 2019

Hey peeps. I’m back sharing a galaxy sky background card made with Brea Reese inks. As you know, I love alcohol inks and how you can create amazing backgrounds with them. So for today I have a very clean and simple galaxy sky card that took no time at all to complete. (To see more of my Brea Reese alcohol ink backgrounds click here.

To begin making this card I needed a striking background. I pulled out my Brea Reese Waterproof paper and a few inks to make a galaxy background. Anytime you are using Brea Reese inks, make sure to pick colors that will blend well together. For these backgrounds I used Cadmium Red, Pink, Ultramarine and Purple. Making sure to keep the inks moving, I started with clear blending solution before I added my colors.

Galaxy Sky

While adding my colors I made sure to keep the paper moving by tilting it back and forth so the color would run together. Once I had the desired look, I heat set it with my heat tool. Mixing in different inks to get this galaxy background was so addicting to do. To add some stars to the background, I splattered a mixture of water and white gouache together. I used an acrylic block and a fine paint brush to flick the white stars on. You can use white or even silver for a beautiful affect.

Galaxy Sky Background

While the paint was drying I die cut out a small frame of winter trees. For some added weight, I die cut each one twice in white and once in a purple shade of card stock. The reason for the purple paper was to give some darkness underneath the white once I placed it on my alcohol ink background. This is a great tool to use when adding something to dark paper.

Now to complete my card I took a white piece of card stock and stenciled on some faint gray lines. Trimming down a piece of paper slightly bigger in width than my framed trees gave me a great background piece for my alcohol ink. Stamping a sentiment in a coordinating blue purple color to match my background keeps my card clean and simple. I adhered the framed trees to the lined piece and popped the line piece up with foam tape onto a white card base. I love how clean and simple this card turned out.

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Brea Reese Pirate Friendly Sea

September 23, 2019

Hey peeps. It’s Brea Reese Pirate Friendly Sea on the blog today. I’m back to share a really cool alcohol technique using Brea Reese Alcohol inks. Last Thursday was International Pirate Day and I was meaning to post this card then, however I had a family emergency to take care of so it’s a little late. I loved how this card turned out and it was so easy to do. Here’s how my pirate friendly sea came together.

To start I trimmed down a piece of Brea Reese waterproof paper to 4.25 x 5.50 size. Starting with the lightest blue color (Ocean Green) and blending solution I swirl the two colors together across the bottom half of the paper. Once I had the desired effect, I hit it with my heat tool to dry that layer. Next I came in with the next shade of blue (Lake Blue) and blending solution to create my second layer. I used a paint brush to keep the color right below the first color. I don’t want this two colors to blend right now. Again, once my desired effect was achieved I hit it with my heat tool. For the last layer, I directed the darkest blue (Prussian Blue) and blending solution towards the bottom of the paper. Moving the color with my paint brush again to keep the color flowing.

Now it was time to create the waves, I used a q-tip loaded with blending solution and worked the back and forth across the paper for definition and movement. This was super easy to do. You get lovely waves with this technique. Now that everything was looking the way I wanted, I drew in the white highlight waves with a white gelly roll pen. The water was complete and I moved on to work on the sun and clouds. Using a q-tip soaked in Cadmium yellow alcohol ink I drew on my son. I heat set it so I could move onto the clouds and sky. I poured a few drops of ocean green ink onto a paper towel and started dotting on the blue background making sure to keep some white areas. This way my clouds would have very soft edges. I love how this panel turned out.

To finish off my card I stamped and colored a pirate ship from the Pink and Main Pirate Critters stamp set. I also stamped out a sentiment from this set and glued it to the background. For added dimension, I popped up my ship with foam take. The waterproof paper is very thin, so I placed a piece of fun foam behind it for stability and glued it to a white card panel. This wavy card background is just perfect!! Here is a closeup of the water.

To see more of my cards using Brea Reese Inks, click here. Thanks so much for stopping by today. I’ll see you back here soon.

Brea Reese Galaxy and Big Dot Background Cards

September 4, 2019

Hey peeps. With hurricane Dorian never making land fall I was able to still craft my weekend away. Making Brea Reese galaxy and big dot background cards was a better way to spend my time. Let me share with you the two cards I made.

For my first card I made a galaxy background with several alcohol inks on Brea Reese waterproof paper. I set this panel aside to dry while I worked on my design. When I’m making cards, I like to have a plan. I may sketch out the design first or I may already have a design in mind. For this one I knew I wanted to use the new Waffle Flower Big Dots die. I could use the left over pieces to make another card.

Brea Reese Galaxy background

Once the panel was completely dried I ran it through my Gemini Jr. with the Waffle Flower Big Dots Die. Since I also knew I wanted to make this a shaker card I cut out additional backgrounds so I could stack them all together. I needed to have a background for the panel to sit on so I grabbed my distress oxide inks to create the colorful back drop. Since the galaxy panel was really busy I didn’t want to risk stamping a sentiment in the middle. Instead I pulled out my hello die from Pink and Main and die cut it out of silver paper. I also die cut additional hellos to stack the sentiment for weight.

Brea Reese Galaxy and Polka Dot Background

Now it was time to assemble the card. To make things easy I took the Big Dot die and used a pencil to tray the dot areas on the background panel. I pulled out some colorful sequins and placed them in a few of the dots areas for the shaker aspect of the card. Once I had that complete, it was time to place the galaxy background on top. Using the pencil to trace the openings made it super easy to line up. To complete the card I added the sentiment and adhere the entire panel to a white card base. I literally squealed when this card was complete. 😍 Brea Reese Galaxy and Polka Dot background

Now let’s see what I did with all those left over dots. It was so easy to put a card together with the galaxy dots that were left over. I placed the Big Dot die onto a white card panel and traced around each opening so I had a grid on my paper. I then adhered dots onto the traced lines and the card came together quickly.

For the sentiment I used one of the sentiments from the Big Dot Sentiment stamp also from Waffle Flower. I wanted to have color on this sentiment that matched a color in the galaxy dots so I used the archival ink in the color of plum from Ranger.

Brea Reese Polka Dot Card

I layered this piece onto a purple background and adhere the panel to a white card base. This card is stunningly beautiful in real life. The different colors I was able to achieve with the Brea Reese alcohol inks is what totally made this card so beautiful. Remember if you have an alcohol ink background that you’re not sure you completely love it, pull out die cuts and make backgrounds with them. You can use word dies, shaped dies or cover plates like this one from Waffle Flower.

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Mid Summer Blues

August 19, 2019

Hey everyone. I’m back sharing a quick card I made for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This challenge is to use mid summer blues and I’m so happy I played along. I finally pulled back out my Nuvo mouse from my stash and the really cool facetted stencil from Simon Says stamp to create this card.

For today’s card I used three Nuvo mousses for my color combination. I tinted the pearl white down with a little bit of alcohol ink in blue from Brea Reese. I stenciled the mousse over the faceted stencil from Simon Says stamp with a palette knife. While this panel was drying I die cut out the sending hugs sentiment from white and silver foil paper. I stacked my dies one on top of the other for dimension.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Mid Summer Blues

To finish off the card I layered the stencil panel on light blue card stock and then onto a white card base. I added a few matte sequin and my card was complete. I have a tutorial up using this stencil in a video I shared on my Youtube channel. Head on over and check it out.

Love the simple look of this card. Shopping list included below. It can either be sent to a female or male friend due to it’s simple color palette. Thanks for stopping by today. I’ll see you back here soon!

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