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Hello! Maybe I'm missing something, but I have been trying the brayered sky tutorial and only get straight lines for my colors. The post it notes work on the bottom, so the first layer is good, then the second layer comes out as a straight line at the end of the brayer. What am I missing. The sample is so nice and shaded, that I must be doing something wrong.
To avoid a sharp line when brayering you can either do your first roll on scrap paper before going onto the card stock or you can start at the very top of the card stock and brayer back and forth moving down a little at a time. Be sure to keep brayering after the ink is off the brayer to blend, blend, blend.
Hope this helps.
Great! Thanks for the answer, I'll try it and see if I can make it work. I just wasn't getting the hang of the brayer, 'course, it was my first time with it.
Well, it is getting better. Now I am getting vertical lines. Could this be from pressing too hard? Once the line are on the paper, they are not blending. I really appreciate all the help...
What are your favorite color combos with this technique? Love the Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, and Not Quite Navy as well as Barely Banana, Groovy Guava, and Ruby Red.
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This is definitely not an easy technique! I do find it hard to get the lines out once they are down. I am using a cosmetic sponge instead of those yellow ones with holes to add more ink and also to blend. The cosmetic sponges pick up more ink than the yellow ones do and I don't have to do it as long. When I run my brayer across each ink pad, I take a piece of paper with a torn edge and lay that on the ink pad covering about 1/2 an inch on one end. That way, when I run my brayer across the cardstock it has a wavy edge on the brayer and I don't get hard lines. Does that make sense? Or you can unload some of the ink on just the edges of the inked up brayer by tilting the brayer and rolling it on scrap paper first. This helps to not produce a hard line.
The person who asked about verticle lines......your brayer may have a dent running down the length of it that you don't notice. Try replacing the rubber. And when you store it, place it upside down so it rests on the handle and not the rubber.
Anybody else have anymore tips?
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Great tips!
One thing I have noticed - it looks more blended after it has "set". I'd do the project in the evening & the next morning, it looks more blended than it did the evening before.
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I think brayers should be made with a soft edge, rounded on the two ends, that would make it so mush easier! Craft ink would probably work better and also a paper that doesn't absorb the ink too fast so that there is time to play with blending the ink colors. Does anybody want to make that kind of brayer?
I have found that when you are working with the darker colors if you work your brayer from the top of the card down to where you want it you eliminate that harsh line... Also for the darker colors roll off on scrap paper before you brayer.... One more thing - you don't need to press your brayer down like you are trying to kill it... LOL.... roll easy and work it....
Hope this helps!
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Rip edge along length of a piece of scrap paper -- a little longer than your card/scrap page.
Tape ends in center a larger piece of scrap paper.
Slide your card under the ripped edge -- I did 2-3" down from top (this was for a 12x12 page -- these #'s won't work for a card!)
Roll on 1st ink color
Move card/page up under your ripped edge to 2" and roll 2nd ink color
Move card/page up under ripped to 1" and roll last ink color.
This way you get jagged edges as you roll on each color! And it holds your paper in place. I also used the taped piece of paper to mask as I stamped my trees -- so, it looks like some are behind the others.
If I can get photos of my little system to come out, I'll post them.
Hope my description helps.
I think a lot of people sponge with "brayered" sky technique as well -- I want to try that with another page -- getting the brayer to ink evenly is not something I am very good at. But it's a fun technique!
It's really important to store your brayer with the rubber side UP! This will prevent getting a FLAT spot on the rubber - which, in turn, prevents leaving lines of ink on your cardstock.
Hope this helps, Arleen Graham notjuststamps1.typepad.com
I just tried this last night, used su whisper white, found that you can not press hard on the brayer, I rolled once or twice, depending how dark the color on scrape, then rolled lightly across the paper, and I really worked the color in, rolling until there was no more ink on brayer, and continued this with all the colors, I went through a bit of paper until I figured it out. Still need a lot of practice
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