Playing with Brushos..again!

Hi all, I'm a bit late posting this card, as I had finished it on Sunday, but I was waiting for some brighter weather to take a picture! I made this card for this week's Less is More challenge, and the theme this week is Beachy! I don't have many nautical style stamps, but I KNOW that I do own a Pink Paislee set...somewhere!  I've looked high and low for it, and I can't find it anywhere! I remember seeing it in a box that it shouldn't be in, and thinking 'Oh, I'll put that back in a minute!' Hmmm! That'll teach me to replace my stuff after use. Ho hum.

Anyway, I had bought a sea themed stencil from a craft fair ages ago, (may have been at the NEC last November) so I thought I would use that.

I used the seahorse image from the stencil, using Grunge Paste coloured with ultramarine Brusho pigment powder. I have done a little tutorial on how I created this card further down. The sentiment is one of my wooden stamps, by Hampton Arts which I haven't used before. I do find the Less is More challenge gets me to use my unused stash - this card has used a stamp and a stencil plus the luxe dust which I had bought but squirrelled away!

After the image was dry, I sprinkled more ultramarine Brushos onto the card around the seahorse, and a slight touch of leaf green. Then I spritzed with water, and used my hand held color spritzer to move the paint around the paper.

 When this was dry,  I felt the seahorse blended into the background too well, so I went around the raised paste with a fine liner pen. I added some Vintage Silver embossing powder and some Opal dust for some glittery shimmer.

Below are some pics of how I created this card, I thought I would leave it til last so you can just skip over it hehe!

 Here are my tools - Grunge Paste, Brushos, pallette knife, acrylic block, watercolour card, stencil.
The stencil is by The Crafter's Workshop.

I spread a little bit of the paste onto my block, I wasn't too sure how much to use, I did need to add a bit more.

I very lightly sprinkled ultra marine Brusho onto the paste, and mixed.

It came out a pale baby blue colour, so I added some more...

When I was happy with the colour, I wanted to add some shimmer, so I added a pinch of some Luxe Dust pearl powder. This made the paste really dry, so I spritzed it with some water.

Then I applied it to the stencil, I didn't tape the stencil to the card, which is advisable, but I got away with it this time!

When finished applying, I carefully peeled the stencil back...

I was really pleased with the clear definition of this lovely stencil. My only gripe is the luxe dust didn't really show up, so I either need to use more, or apply it topically to the top of the stencilled paste when dry.

Thanks for stopping by

Pauline