01.09.2018...Brusho Crystal Color....a two-fer Tuesday Tutorial...

 So...I was playing around in my craft room with the new Brusho Crystal Color found on page 26 of the new Occasions Catalog.

Oh my goodness I LOVE this stuff!  It is super-pigmented ink crystals that are activated by water!  There are five containers in a box and the colors are Brilliant Red, Gamboge (orange), Moss Green, Prussian Blue, and Yellow.

The thing I like is that you need so few crystals to make something amazing.

Now when you get these you DO NOT open the lids....you simply pierce a tiny hole in the top and sprinkle .....a tiny bit goes a long way!  I actually pierced mine with tacks and left the tacks as stoppers in the lid.

So my first experiment was to just see what this stuff was all about.  So I grabbed some watercolor paper and had some fun:

I got my brick wall mask and laid it on top of the first piece of watercolor paper.  I sprinkled just a wee bit of assorted crystals over the mask.  Then I spritzed it with water and watched the magic happen! In the first image above you can see how I used too much water and got a blob under the mask....that's ok....don't panic....wait and see.

When I lifted my mask there was a ton of juicy ink color on the mask so I decided to flip it over onto another piece of watercolor paper and it gave me the opposite effect.  Cool huh!

I set these aside and let them dry....for a bit....I couldn't wait too much longer so I helped them along with my trusty heat tool- LOL.

Next I matted the first one and attached it to a card base as shown below:

See...still has the blob effect....but instead of freaking out and tossing it I decided to go with it and see what happened....

I grabbed my trusty Happy Birthday Thinlet die found on page 213 of the annual catalog and some Pumpkin Pie card stock. Here is my greeting: 

Then I attached it to my card front and voila:

A one of a kind cool looking birthday card for a certain young man I know.  

Cool !

So then I went on to the other piece of watercolor paper...and matted it and adhered it to a card base:

Then I grabbed my new Celebrate You Thinlets found on page 17 of the Sale-A-Bration catalog and cut out my greeting: 

Then I grabbed my new  Epic Celebrations found on page 12 of the Sale-A-Bration catalog:

 and stamped and colored the sneaker image and cut it out.  I then adhered them to the card front:

I did not like how the greetings blended in....so I grabbed a journalling pen and added some stitching in attempt to make it pop more....not happy....DID NOT like it 😕...now what.

I walked away....left it sitting on my craft desk....made some coffee....threw in a load of laundry....had my shower and came back to it.   

Still nothing....I was getting angry at myself for gluing down the greetings in the first place as I was not happy with it from the start.

So I decided to check my emails...distract myself some more....got another coffee....and came back to it....yup....those red shoelaces gave me an idea!  I grabbed some scrap Real Red card stock and cut another greeting with the Happy Birthday Thinlet.  I carefully glued the red greeting over top of the existing one and voila!

Now I was happy.  I have two great cards perfect for a young boy's birthday!

And I LOVE the Brusho Crystal Color!

I hope you enjoyed my mini photo twofer tutorial!

Come back tomorrow to see what I did with Brusho next. See Ya!