Instead of starting with white card, brayer a little pale colour onto your card. Roll most of the colour off onto scrap paper (or another project) first for a faint and deliberately patchy look.

Apply Versamark to a clean stamp and stamp onto your coloured glossy card.

Using the same colour as your background, brayer colour over the top, repeating if needed to get the depth of colour you want.

Once you have the colour and smoothness you are happy with, wipe with a soft cloth to reveal the resist stamping.

Apply Versamark to your second stamp and stamp onto your card again.  Choose a stamp that will fit into the unstamped areas for best results.

Choose the colour you are going to brayer over the top and bear in mind that ink is transparent so you need to remember your colour theory (eg red over green will make brown).

Position your brayer so that just one edge picks up colour.

Now move the brayer so that the other edge picks up the ink.  I have chosen the same colour at each edge, but you could choose two different colours and you would end up with three stripes of colour on your card.

You can now roll your brayer over your card and your central strip will not change, just the two outer edges.  As you roll, move the brayer from side to side very slightly to blur the hard edges and create a soft graduated look.

Wipe with a soft cloth and your second layer of resist stamping will show up.  The resist will be the colour of your first brayered ink.

The colours that I used are quite similar so the effect is subtle.

 
 
Here is another example showing stamping over a patchy yellow (Archival Saffron) background which was then brayered with Memento Rosebud, creating a patchy orange finish.
 
 

This piece shows some new fragment stamps which are being launched later this week.

 
There are two separate fragment stamps here because the first was done with a very old, rather dirty Versamark pad and didn't seem to be resisting the ink.  So I coloured the card in the two shades of green and tried again with the harlequin stamp and brayered over it with pink.  This time, it seemed both images resisted the second layer of ink - so be prepared for some surprises along the way!

And here's a very simple card I made with it.

I originally ran this series in 2013 and this time round, I am using my own tutorials to inspire me to create a new piece of artwork to share with you each week. 

I love to create and I am also passionate about inspiring and enabling others to create too.  I hope that this email gets your mojo working and you feel motivated to get into your crafty space and have a go.





PS - if your creation features Chocolate Baroque stamps, then why not share on our Facebook Group or our wonderful private forum. In both places you will find a wonderful community of like minded Chocolate Baroque fans.