Playing with Brushos and Stamps

Hi, Susan here!

Just taking a break from my October 31 Days of Halloween...

It is customary to add a piece of artwork to the front

of a 4 or More or Freebies Rule book.

This can be anything you like -

 but this weekend I decided to have a go with Brushos and stamps.

The technique can be achieved in a number of ways and may need a bit of practice - but it is worth persevering as some of the results are pretty good!

Either spritz your paper with water, sprinkle the stamp with Brusho powders and stamp

Or sprinkle the stamp with powder, spritz the stamp and then stamp

Or sprinkle powders on your craft mat, spritz with water, pick up colour with stamp and stamp.

Or make a Brusho Stamp pad. Fold up a wet wipe or paper towel in a flat container and sprinkle with Brushos - spritz with water and use as stamp pad. 

These are a couple of Freebies Rule books I made decorating the fronts using this technique:

Some stamps work better than others - I really liked the jar of flowers and the deer - my next example - a stamp of 4 flower pictures in a block was not so successful:

I ended up overstamping with black and adding colour with markers to make the fronts of these 4 or more books.

Happy Crafting!!