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Brayer Challenge

By Peggie Wilkins
Contest Winner
Rubber Road Yahoo Group
 

The instructions for this piece are limited to profiling the background Brayer work. Create the brayered background to attach to a card front using your favorite adhesive such as Scotch double stick tape or Mono Adhesive. In this card, images were stamped, colored, cut out and attached to the brayered background for the effect of gazing upon a stunning, starburst sky.

Materials

• Kaleidoscope pad
• Brayer
• Glossy Paper

Instructions

1. Slide kaleidoscope ink pads together.

2. Run the brayer across the kaleidoscope pad until it is inked all around, but making sure not to over lap the colors. (One end of the brayer will not have any ink on it).

3. Align the brayer over the card stock so that the end of the brayer with the ink is in the center at the bottom of the card stock.

4. Start rolling the brayer and slowly turn it, but always keeping the brayer end with the ink in the same spot. Sort of like you are making a fan on the card stock.

5. If necessary, re-ink the brayer making sure to line up the brayer on the inkpad in the same spot. Continue working in the same way around the paper until you have the starburst effect.

6. Trim the white edges off the paper.

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