Inky Jellyfish.

Welcome to the new challenge at Cardz for Guyz. Sian has tasked us to use ink or paint. I have quite a few backgrounds made when I was having an inky play some time ago.  This was one that I made using Brushos and shaving foam. It really gives some quite fun backgrounds that change as the paint gets more mixed in. This was an early one before it got too mixed up.

I stamped the Visible Image jellyfish in black and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to make it stand out more.

Sadly this is my last post for Cardz for Guyz as I am taking a step back from some of my DT commitments, but I'm hoping to find more time to join in with some of the many challenges in blogland without the commitment.

Brushos and Shaving Foam!!!

Be warned- this is quite a long post and photo heavy - so if you just want to see the card I made scroll down! I finally succumbed to buying some Brushos last week and had a quick play with some water when they arrived.

 

This was on watercolour paper but don't like it - too splotchy. Then I tried ordinary white card.

Quite nice but prettier with the addition of some SU Vanilla Smooch spray. Then I wondered whether I could just use that instead of water and got these.

Blue and turquoise with vanilla then

black with vanilla. Think I need a bit mote powder and a bit more liquid but I do like the colour mix.

Now a couple of weeks ago I'd bought some shaving foam with the intention of trying out the "shaving foam technique" with re-inkers. I've still not tried it but while languishing on the settee yesterday I got to wondering whether the Brushos would work. This morning I set to with a large plastic tray, lots of kitchen towel and shaving foam. I cut my card into A6 just so that if it was a total disaster I hadn't wasted too much card. I sprinkled a smallish amount of ultramrine and emerald green into one half of the foam - being economical here - then swirled it around with a pokey tool and swished a piece of card through, swirled it again, then another piece until I had these four pieces. The lightest one being the last.

Then I tried lemon and scarlet.

Next I added the coloured foam with a palette knife and used both the red mix and the blue.

Now to mix everything up.

Still mixing between bits of card I ended up with a very muddy looking mess! But I ladled it onto card using the palette knife as though icing a cake!

Not very inspiring is it? But look what I got when I scraped it off.

And finally

It reminds me of those marbled papers you used to get in the front of books.  At this point the muddy looking mess got washed down the bathroom sink. But I had to make something out of one of the pieces - so using the red and blue one I made this - it reminded me of a sunset over the sea.

I mixed the scarlet with some water to use as paint for the sails. And after that long post I'm taking this over to Pixies Playground as the black card was out of my snippets box. I did think I mught join in Darnell's NBUS challenge again as the shaving foam was never before used schtuff but thought that was a bit cheeky!

Edited to add Di has persuaded me to link to Darnell's challenge!