A crafty mess

I might be spending my birthday making christmas cards!
More pictures soon!

A card with brayering....take one!

Well, today I decided to get the brayer out and to attempt  the cards that Mum used to make. She did teach me how to do some of it once, but I have not picked it up since and could not remember much of it.

First attempt was the basic task of making a sky and water background on silk card.

The brayer Mum used!

I now have loads of these, I chose "Waterfall" as I am creating a water and sky background!

One mask and some crinkled paper later.....

One background!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OK, so once I had figured this out I decided to make a replica of one of Mums cards in her DoCrafts gallery...

Here is hers...

So...I got the stuff out and here we go!!

Image stamped with Momento Ink pad onto silk card.

Image Dippy toe stamp from clarity...not sure if that is it's real name but Mum always called it that!

I used this 3/4" stamp (now I know why she had it) to punch out a moon mask from a post it note! Make sure some of the sticky bit is on it.

Mask off the moon and the waterline to colour the sky.

Ink up the brayer as usual and then roll the excess off onto scrap paper and then fade at the edge of the brayer in the usual way :)

One coloured sky!

Mask off the sky to colour the water.

Ink up the brayer and take of the excess onto a crumpled piece of paper. Voilà  The ripples are transferred to the brayer!

Both areas are coloured and the water has a ripple effect.

Remove the moon mask to reveal the stamp below.

Trim to size.

Backing papers and peel offs.

scoring the backing card from A4.

Main image layered onto two pieces of card.

Corner peel offs added in three parts each.

Main lines added around edges of the backing card and then around the edges of the image and layers.

I added some ceramic roses to compliment the design as Mum did with silk roses.

Roses mounted with syllicone glue.

Peel off design.

Main image mounted.

                          Mums                                                                            Mine

How did she do this???

OK, so looking through Mum's gallery on facebook and docrafts, there is a lot of barbera grey stuff in there.

One of the main techniques she used was the brayer.

Now, she did teach me but it was years ago and I have totally forgotten how to do this.

I have all the kit needed and all the stamps....there are templates of the words "Love" etc with the centre circles cut out....

Do any of you have any idea how she will have created this card? Just the stamping techniques I mean with masking etc...

I know that there are several layers of card here all done seperately, the main thing I am concerned with it the stamping and colouring of the inside of the letter "O" and also, how did she do the backing card?

I am guessing some kind of brayer technique with scrunched card? but how did she get the leave pattern which is a barbera grey stamp to remain clear?