Hello there!

Thank you for dropping in and spending 5 minutes with me; 

makes this daily blogging much more rewarding, when you know somebody’s actually going to read it!

I hope you don’t mind, but today, I am going to take you through a little card I did on TV recently. 

 We will master this old Brayer eventually!

We will need:

The remountable set of Bunnies

they come with some grass, too

Happy Easter bendable Stamp.

Square White card

Moon masks

Lake Mist Adirondack Ink Pad (my new favourite colour!)

Eggplant Adirondack Ink Pad

Slate Adirondack Ink Pad 

Watering Can Archival Ink Pad

Brayer

Clarity Blending Mat

Blending Tool

Here goes. And don’t flap. There’s plenty of time to perfect this brayering thing before Easter!

Place the Lazy Moon Mask on the white card.

Load the Speedball brayer with Lake Mist, roll it out on your blending mat, and transfer it to the sky, coming in at an angle, so as to avoid lines.

Now load the Brayer with Eggplant and go back over the Lake Mist sky. This colour combo is superb!

Let’s check it out! 
Doesn’t the Lake Mist underneath the Eggplant look fabulous?

Cool. Next stamp the Bunny in a Watering Can (sounds painful!)

he’s feeling a little conspicuous in the middle of the prairie all alone!  Best stamp his buddy, too.

Tear a hill out of copy paper with a ruler , or use the edge of our new Blending Mat.

Let’s mask off the 2 friends before we begin…

Time to plant the land. 
Cover up the sky with your hill mask, and roll off what’s left on your brayer of the Eggplant. 
Maybe there’s a little left on the Blending mat, too.

Using a make-up sponge, add some shade around the rabbits.

Using the torn paper, and a make-up sponge, 

let’s add the dips and shadows in the pasture.

Slate Adirondack is perfect for this. 

Mix it up a little with Eggplant. 

Add some grass in Watering Can Archival at the front, 

and even in a couple of the folds.

Uncover the lazy moon.

Colour in the two little Bunny Buddies with colouring pencils.

I used a Blending Tool and Slate Adirondack around the edges. 

This is where the Blending Mat is very useful.

Nearly there…

Add a sentiment in the Sky.

What else could we use? Any ideas?

After all, this doesn’t have to be an Easter card. does it?

There we are. All done. 

I hope that you can extract some useful tips and ideas from this little greeting card. Whether it’s the colour combination, or the folds in the ground with the torn paper and make-up sponge. There may be something you can use in there somewhere.

Enjoy!

Much love,
Barb
xxx