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Brea Reese Holiday Lights

November 14, 2019

Hey everyone. I’m back today sharing Brea Reese holiday lights with you. These lights were super easy to make and can easily be recreated using different colors of ink. One of my favorite color combinations is red and teal. I know these colors are not normally ones must people would choice for holiday lights. However, remember it’s your creation so you can make it any color you want. 😉

Brea Reese Holiday Lights

I started off by making large backgrounds on Brea Reese waterproof paper. Mixing three blue shades of ink on one panel and two red shades of ink on the other. I made sure to add lots of colorless solution to keep the colors moving and flowing nicely together. While I let them I worked on the background.

Brea Reese Holiday Lights

Gray card stock is definitely a color I go to when I want a soft background for an image or in this case my lights. I trimmed down a panel of fog card stock and stamped a cheerful holiday message in the corner with Versamark. Next I heat embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder. For the string that hold my lights, I dipped white baker’s twine in gold watercolor and heat set it.

Brea Reese Holiday Lights

Now it was time to assemble my card. I pulled the string through the top of each light and attached the string to the back of the gray panel. For dimension on my card I popped up each light with foam dots and staggered them across the top of the panel. I adhered this panel to a white card base made with 100 lb Neenah Solar White card stock. Additional interest was a must for the background so I pulled out a few gems and flat back sequins to scatter around the lights.

As I mentioned in the beginning of the post, these Brea Reese holiday lights are super easy one to recreate. Color palette are available on my color combinations board on Pinterest if you need color inspiration. Thanks for stopping by today. I’ll see you back here soon.

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.

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.

Thanks for stopping by today. I have all the products I used listed below for your shopping convenience. Have a great day everyone and I’ll see you back here soon.

Make Your Card POP With Alcohol Inks

July 18, 2019

Hey peeps. Make your cards pop with alcohol inks!! It is such an easy way to add beautiful color and uniqueness to your next set of cards. I’m a avid card maker and I’m always looking for ways to kick my cards up a notch. Using Brea Reese alcohol inks makes that a breeze. So let’s get into today’s card.

To start my card I pulled out a piece of Brea Reese waterproof paper and got creative. Staring with cadmium yellow and orange inks I worked the ink into the paper adding lots of blending solutions to soften up the color. Creating a little more intense color I added just a few drops of cadmium red. Creating movement in the ink was easy by using a Brea Reese blending tool to push and move the color until I achieved the blend I wanted.

Let’s it kick it up a notch. Add gold alcohol ink to my blending tool and started dabbing it all over the paper. This gave me a gorgeous marble affect. You can create amazing color blending using the blending tools and gold alcohol ink. If you need to soften things up, just dab on some blending solution. Once all the blending was complete I pulled out a large cover plate to die cut a leave design. I LOVE how these leaves look.

The colors of these leaves I would of never been able to create with just blending inks. Brea Reese alcohol inks make my heart so happy. If you really want to have a lot of this color variation, I suggest making and entire 8×11 panel so you have lots and lots of scraps. Speaking of scraps, I could not just toss what was left over so I made another card using the rest of the alcohol inked paper. For this card I keep it really simple and used a large strip of paper on the bottom portion of a coral piece of card stock. Stamping a leave background on the coral piece and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder makes the card really soft. Keeping with a simple sentiment made sure my colorful alcohol piece was not overwhelmed.

I would love to see what you create with Brea Reese products. Make sure to link them over on the Brea Reese Facebook page. Also you can find some much inspiration there too. Thanks for stopping by today. I’ll see you back here soon!

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