Retiform Tutorial

I have a very easy technique to share with you.

To do the retiform technique you need

3 to 4 different inks that are complimentary

and vary from a dark to light.

The other materials needed are a brayer,

an acrylic block and post it notes

Ink up the brayer using the lightest color of ink.


After putting ink on the brayer, I roll it over the acrylic
block to make sure the ink is spread evenly.




Then I roll the brayer over the cardstock.

I place 3 post it notes randomly on the cardstock.

Ink up the brayer with 2nd lightest color of ink.
Roll on acrylic block(not shown again).

Then I roll the brayer over the

post it notes and cardstock.

I add more post it notes. Randomly placed.

Ink up brayer again with next to darkest ink.

Roll over the post it notes. You get the idea. Add the last

few post it notes and use the darkest ink using the

same steps as the other inks.

After using the darkest ink, pull the post it notes off

and you have a geometric looking paper.

Wasn't that easy?

Here is a card that I made for today's limited supplies challenge

using the retiform technique..

We were to make an opposite card. We were to use our:

oldest set... my roses are my oldest set.

newest tool... my brayer is my newest tool.

favorite colors... turquoise and peach are my favorite colors.

least favorite embellishment... mine are the swirly clips.

Embossing-Brayer tutorial

I don't have a fancy embossing machine.

All my embossing is done by hand.

I bought these Fiskars texture plates a couple of years ago,

but had a difficult time using them.

By the time I covered up the plate with the cardstock,

it was hit or miss trying to guess where the grooves were.

This last week it hit me that I could

photo copy the texture plate to give me guidelines.

Here I have taped the piece of cardstock

that I wanted to emboss to the texture plate.

I then taped the photo copy of the plate over the cardstock.

I then went over the lines with my embossing stylus.

Brayer, ink pad and acrylic block.

I inked up the brayer by rolling it over the ink pad.

I then rolled the brayer over the acrylic block.

This step makes sure that the ink on the brayer is blended.

I then rolled the brayer over the embossed cardstock,

with the raised design on top. I used light pressure when rolling.

The finished embossing-brayered cardstock.

Sample card using the embossing-brayered cardstock.

Little red divas

Use red on your card. That was the way to use it challege. I had these little lady bugs left over from the teaparty on Tuesday. I used the MOJO103 sketch. I embossed and brayered the background. I had a tutorial on that technique that I hope to get up here later today.

SAND

The Ways to use it challenge this week was to use SAND somehow on your card. I brayered my sky with masks for the clouds. I embossed the waves using my fiskars embossing plate and my embossing stylus. I SANDed the waves with an emory board. I made a SAND dollar out of a brown paper bag. I glued SAND to the bottom of my card. I finished it off with knotted twine.

Sunrise

More playing with my brayer. I used the color challenge on Splitcoast this week.