Brutus Monroe You Brighten My Day Rainbow Card

 

I love foiling and today I thought I would share a card that had a focal panel with some of Brutus Monroe Toner Mixable sheets.  I started by foiling my Rainbow panel from the Really Radiant Toner Mixables pack with some Deco Foil Transfer Sheets in Rainbow. Then, I cut the panel and a black mat down with a stitched frame from my stash and adhered them together.

Next, I stamped out my sentiment form the Dogwood Spring Stamp set with Distress Oxide Villainous Potion ink and covered it with Icicle Embossing Powder.  After heat setting, I used the coordinating die to cut it out and matted it on a black frame cut from a stitched die from my stash.  

For some interest, I cut some vellum with the leaves from the Fabulous Florals Die set (3 times) and sprayed them with some shimmer spray to add some shine.  I also sprayed the back of leaves with some Pixie Spray to add adhesive to the back and layered them on the front of my foiled panel.  I used liquid glue to attach my matted sentiment over the ends of my leaves so help keep them in place.  Finally, I adhered the entire thing to a white A2 card base.

Thanks for stopping by and brightening my day.    All of the above links are affiliate links to the Brutus Monroe store. These add no cost to you, however they do help me bring you content.

GIU Week Thanks rainbow card

 

For my first card this week showcasing Unity Stamp Company products, I wanted to go with an almost one layer and a more simpler card.

I started by placing the Allure border background in my Misti and inked up parts of the stamp with Simon Hurley Creates Shooting Star and stamping it down on my white A2 card panel.  Next, I inked up the image with Bee Sting (also by SHC), overlapping some of the yellow areas.  I repeated this with the SHC Clear Skies ink.  By using these three inks, I can create a rainbow on my background.  I like to use Simon Hurley Inks because the blend well and they also stay "wet" long enough for me to cover the entire image with Embossing Powder.  Here, I used Icicle Embossing Powder from Brutus Monroe and heat set it to give my background a shiny finish.

Next, I used some Deco Foil-Unity Adhesive Transfers for my sentiment.  I cut the Thanks from Sentiments 1 and following the packaging instructions adhered that to the center of my panel.  I covered the transfer with some rainbow foil from my stash (a left over piece from another project).  For the sub sentiment, I stamped For All You Do (from my stash) with Raven Detail Ink from Brutus Monroe.

After I cut down my panel to 4" x 5.25," I adhere it to the front of my Black A2 Card base, including a white blank panel on the inside for my message when sending.  To finish off my card, I used some liquid glue to attached a few iridescent gems around my sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my projects this week.  Make sure to head over to the Unity {show & tell} Facebook page to leave a comment for a chance to win some Unity products! 

Here are some affiliated links for other products I used, which is no extra cost to you but helps me bring content to you if you would like to purchase some of these items.  (Links above are just direct links to the products and not affiliated).

• Brutus Monroe Icicle Embossing Powder
• Brutus Monroe Raven Detail Ink
• Simon Hurley Creates Shooting Star Ink
• Simon Hurley Creates Bee Sting Ink
• Simon Hurly Creates Clear Skies Ink 

Love Grows here Slim Line card (Brutus Monroe)

It has been awhile since I had a blog post.  I started a new job last fall and have been attempting to balance my crafting and work life. So today,  I have a slim line card today featuring the stencil of the month and a variety of stamps from the Brutus Monroe.  All of these stamps come from the April Subscription products and I have the links below.

I started by using a slim line precut panel and place it on my Stick and Stamp mat.  I turned the Stencil of the month (called Vintage Tile) on the diagonal over my panel.  I used some post-it note tape to cover the corners of my panel to keep them clean while I blended.  Using some blending brushes and some Simon Hurley Inks for my design, I used each color about a third of the way across the stencil.  I started blending at the top with Shooting Star ink.  In the middle, I used Traffic Cone and ended with Bee Sting, overlapping the inks slightly for a transition.  To remove my panel from the Stick and Stamp mat, I carefully roll the edges of my mat (gently) until the panel "pops" off.  Then I used my Stick and Stamp Mat Mist Cleaner to wipe off an ink.

I then took another piece of the precut slimline panels and blended the same three inks along the edges to create a mat layer that matched my stencil.  I cut the stenciled piece down slightly to about 3" and placed it on my mat, which was cut to about 3.25"  I then used tape runner to attach it to my Precut Slimline card base.

For my images I use some of the images from Bountiful Blooms and Love Grows Here and stamped them on Perfect Blend Alcohol Paper with Raven Detail ink.  I colored in my images with a variety of Copic markers and then cut them out with my Scan and cut.

I arranged the images to on the bottom right of my panel and attached them with liquid glue.  To finish my card, I used the sentiment from the April Stamp of the Month, and adhered it right above my stamped and colored images.  (The stamp+ club is the the stamp of the month and coordinating die which you can find here.)

Snow Scenes Stamp and Die Combo From Brutus Monroe

Stamp and Die combo what??? yes, you read that right.  Now available at Brutus Monroe is the beautiful Snow Scenes Stamp and Die combo.  This stamp set is so beautiful.  It has three snowflakes that have a center with a different winter scene.  One is a peaceful river scene, one is the forest scene, and the other is cozy cabin scene.  The last snowflake has an open center that is perfect for a sentiment or pattern paper or one of the small snowflake stamps that also come with the set.  The dies match each of the large snowflakes and there is a circle die that cuts out the center of the snowflakes.  This stamp set is also available with the December Inspiration Box-Winter Winds, which you can order here.

When I received this set, I decided right away that I wanted to make a rainbow snowflake card.  I used the three scene snowflakes and stamped them out in rainbow order. First I took the Forest Scene and stamped it in Bee sting and Guppy Ink.  I quickly covered my inked images with Brutus Monroe Icicle Embossing Powder and heat set them.  I used Slipper When Wet and Later Gator Inks with the Cabin Snowflake set and repeated the same steps as above.  Finally I used Clear Skies and Triple Berry for the River scene and again heat set the Icicle embossing powder over the stamps images.

Here is a closeup so you can see the shine that the embossing powder gives the ink.

Using the coordinating dies, I quick cut out each of the snowflakes.  To cut the centers of my snowflakes, I decided to use a bigger die from the Circle Foundation die set than the one that came with stamp set only because I wanted to go on the outside of the circles to give them that definite border.  I popped up the centers with foam squares keeping to the rainbow order.

Next I pulled a precut slim line panel and used some low tack tape to attach the Simple Slim Line Stencil Dressing Screen.  This time I only used three inks: Bee Sting, Slippery When Wet and Clear Skies.  I used my blending tools to blend the inks to make a rainbow.  When I do this, I start with my lightest, in this case the Slippery When Wet yellow, and blended in the middle up toward the top and slightly towards the bottom.  Next, I used Bee Sting at the top and blended over the Slipper When Wet to create and orange color.  I also blended some Bee Sting at the very bottom.  Finally, I used Clear Skies in the remaining white portion of my panel and blended up over some of the yellow and down over the red at the bottom.I like using a three color blend to make my rainbows instead of using all six colors. I find the blend to be more cohesive and smooth when combined them to make the orange, green and purple.  Because the Dressing Screen stencil is smaller than a standard Slim Line Stencil, I made sure to blend the board at the top and bottom giving me that rainbow effect as well.  Before I removed my stencil I quickly sprayed the whole panel with a shimmer spray from my stash for some sparkle and shine.

I trimmed down my rainbow panel slightly and attached it to my card.  Now full disclosure, I meant to make a landscape card, however, I attached my panel backwards so the rainbow started with purple, so I had to adapt.  No worries I just flipped the card to portrait and moved on.  I attached the snowflakes from the top to the bottom with liquid glue in of course rainbow order.  Lastly, I put my whole card base in my Original Misti and stamped my sentiment from the set with Raven Detail in.

Thank you for stopping by.  Here is a list of affiliated links to the Brutus Monroe store for products that I used on this card. (Affiliated links are at no additional cost for you, they just help to support my content and blog.)

• Snow Scenes Stamp and Die Combo
• Icicle Embossing Powder
• Simple Slim Stencil - Dressing Screen
• Slim Line Pre Cut Card Panels
• Slim Line Pre Cut Card Bases
• Circle Foundation Dies
• Raven Detail Ink
• Simon Hurley Inks