Blending Brushes

Today’s card was inspired by a fellow demonstrator and friend, Brian King, who just happens to be my upline. Brian posted a very similar card on his blog stampwithbrian.com, check it out!

I challenged myself to use the New Blending Brushes, which by the way are amazingly soft. The handles are flexible which makes it super easy to blend large and small areas. They come in a three pack and make blending so easy.

Here is the card I created blending our Highland Heather, Costal Cabana and Bumblebee inks on the New True Love Black and White Designer Series paper. It is amazing what a pop of color will do.

• Begin with a Costal Cabana card base that measures 5 ½ x 8 ½”, score at 4 ¼”.
• Cut a 3 x 4” piece of True Love Designer Series paper and use the New Blending Brushes to add color to the paper.  I used Highland Heather, Costal Cabana and Bumblebee ink.
• Punch a heart using the Heart Punch Pack from the True Love Designer Series paper pack and attached to the 3 x 4” piece of Designer Series paper in previous step.
• Use the Double Oval punch to punch out a Basic Black and Basic White oval.  Stamp the sentiment on the white and attach to the black.  Attach to the lower right side of the heart.
  
  Cut cardstock layers as follows: 
• Basic Black: 4 1/8 x 5 3/8
• Basic Black 3 ¾ x 5
• Costal Cabana: 4 x 5 ¼”
• Basic White: 3 ½ x 4 ¼”
  
  Attach cardstock layers as follows:
• Largest Basic Black to the Costal Cabana card base
• Next size Costal Cabana layer to the Basic Black now on the card base
• Smallest Basic Black piece to the Costal Cabana now on the card base
• White cardstock to the smallest Basic Black piece now on the card base
• Designer Series paper to the Basic White cardstock

Thanks Brian for being my inspiration for today’s post. I hope you will stop back tomorrow for some more crafting and card-making. Don’t forget this is the last month to earn FREE sets from the Sale-A-Bration brochure.