Many of you have notice and commented on the fact that I am using a new brayer.  I’m using a new one because I wanted to use the exact one the people attending my brayer workshops get to use and take home with them.   The new brayer is only different from the old brayer due to the handle.  It has the exact same roller.  🙂   There is this crazy rumor that my old Speedball Brayer is magical, lol.  It is not magical, but it still has a great deal of life left in it although it is stained from a few years of use.  Many of you have e-mailed me asking if you could have my old beloved brayer.  Since there is more than one of you asking, I’m going to give it away.  If you wish to enter for a chance at my brayer, please leave a comment on this post and I will use a random number generator to select the winner on the morning of Saturday, September 6th.  If you are receiving my blog update by e-mail you will need to click on this link to enter a comment on this post:   http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/09/03/summers-end-tutorial-113-and-brayer-give-away/

Ok, enough about that.   Today’s tutorial is for the SCS Sketch Challenge 192 and I’m using a stamp that I have had for years and has never seen ink.

Let’s get going on the tutorial!

Supplies:

Stamped image on a 3.5″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White card stock with Palette Noir Black ink.

Colored his shirt in with a Prismacolor Carmine Red Marker.

Added Crimson Red to the creases of the shirt.

Colored his pants with Soft Sky Blue.

Added Periwinkle to the creases of his pants.

Colored over his pants again with the Sky Blue Light marker to blend them more.

Colored his shoval with Sunburst Yellow.

Colored his skin with Pale Peach.

Colored his hair with Walnut.

Added some Tuscan Red to the dark areas in his hair.

Went over all his hair with the walnut marker again to blend.

Colored the Sand Castle with Eggshell.

Colored over the boy, starfish and castle with a Versamark marker and heat embossed the images with fine detail clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Brayered Adirondack Aqua ink at an angle on the top of the card stock.

Brayered Creamy Caramel ink at an angle at the bottom of the card stock.

Brayered more Aqua ink at an angel at the top of the card stock, bringing it down closer to the Creamy caramel ink.

Masked about an inch of the card stock top with a post it note and sponged on Tempting Turquoise ink, not covering the Aqua entirely.  This puts in the horizon line.

Removed post it note mask and sponged Creamy Caramel ink at the water line.

Added a foam look to the water edge with a white gel pen by making dots and dashes.

Cut my two panels and sponged Tempting Turquoise ink on 3 edges of the two panels.

Sponged Close to Cocoa around the edge of the main image panel.

Stamped the Canvas background stamp in Creamy Caramel on the main image panel. 

Note:  I flip my large background stamps over so the rubber side is up and ink them by rubbing my ink pad across them.  I then flip my card stock face down on the stamp and roll my brayer one time over the card stock.  If you roll back and forth you will smear your image.

Wiped the ink from my embossed images with an old rag.

Sponged Close to Cocoa ink on the edges of the two panels.

Used my Tim Holtz Ruler and a push pin to add piercings to the bottom panel.

Assembled card and added ribbon and brads.  Here it is finished measuring 5″ x 6.5″.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and are now inspired to try a beach scene of your own. 🙂

May your day be filled with the smell of salt in the air and warm breezes blowing your hair.

Until my next post. . . . . . . . .. .

Hugs,

Michelle

Note:  Links to all my tutorials can be found here:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

Here is a link to my workshop calendar if you want to get info on beginner and advanced Brayer workshops:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/workshop-calendar/