I hope that you are all having a good weekend, we had a proper lazy day yesterday, although we did laundry, cleaned out the dishwasher and I potted up a couple of plants but that was it really!
I did attemp something that I don't recommend you do..... I decided it was time to clean my blending brushes, I thought I would start with my Oxide brushes, OMG, they hold so much more ink/pigment than they blend out!! I usually blend until there is no more ink to blend, I then usually do a couple swipes onto kitchen roll to make sure its clean! But as I put the brush into the mildly soapy water I was shocked, I wash and rinsed and repeated and repeated and repeated and it was still colouring the water a lot, needless to say I gave up after 4 brushes.
It has left me wondering how good they are, I don't feel that you got anywhere near the same amount of wastage with the blending foams. Although they are definitely easier to blend with!
Have you tried cleaning yours???
Lilian
Lilian's Description:
Hi, here is my page for this week.
I used categories: ephemera; journal page; ink colouring.
There is quite a lot of colouring, but I blended it in to the pictures.
Lilian I love your journal page, the papers are so pretty, which Stamperia collection is this one? Your background stamping is lovely, it really adds to the interest, I love your little sentiments too, they are perfect.
Thank you so much for a lovely, inspirational journal page XXX
Karen
Karen's Description:
I couldn’t bring myself to add extra leaves So I trimmed it down to fit 4x6 I still added Olive Green Chameleon pen
The NOEL is SueW and I coloured card with Peeled Paint and Fired Brick DO which I mounted with foam tape.
Thank you Karen for another lovely Christmas card. You have once again inspired me, I am yet to use mine, you have given me some lovely ideas.
For context Karen was adding Olive green pen around the edges of the card, this gives the look of an added mat. While adding the ink the pen slipped which is devastating when its the final touch. So karen cut the card down to a 4 x 6 inch. A brilliant idea XXX
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I hope that you all have a lovely Sunday,
Love & hugs,
Sandra xxx
Gorgeous work ladies I really ought to start doing journal pages etc Something for myself for a change
ReplyDeleteI was trying to be clever and edge the card without placing a piece of card on top to mask the page and of course the pen slipped Sandra suggested adding extra foliage to disguise it But I knew it was there and even though I walked away for a couple of hours I couldn’t stop seeing the awful pen mark
I’m helping at the bowls club later (mainly washing up) We are hosting the Presidents lunch - 65 people
We will have a laugh though We’ve already had a couple of disasters which can be laughed at now
Take care everyone xx
Hi everyone
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards on display today 😊
I know what you mean about cleaning the blending brushes! So frustrating that they seem to hold so much more ink. I ended up buying a load more!
Hope you all have a good day
Sending hugs to you all xx