Thank You For All Your NBUSSES!

Greetings!

I am overwhelmed by your wonderful entries in my NBUS Challenge #7! Thank you, thank you!! More on that below, but first I want to show you the thank you card I made you for your participation!

Okay, well, before that, here's some background. Literally. The other day I showed you some "waste art" here in the form of kitchen paper towels that I used at the Happy Little Stampers Retreat.

Today I want to show you the Brusho stencil art I made at the Retreat. (These are the card fronts, not the paper towels I showed before.)

Aren't they cool? You know how I love white space, but I love these, too. The one on the bottom left is my favorite. The problem now is trying to design cards with these fronts that don't cover up all that coolness. I could just trim them and let them fly solo as the front of a card, of course, but Hammy prefers more of a challenge than that so we are going to try and turn each of them into something.

Brushos Stenciled, Spritzed, and Toweled (BSST?)

To make the above stencil art with my Brushos, I borrowed small Tim stencils from Kathy K at the Retreat. One by each I taped a stencil to watercolor paper cut 4.25" x 5.50". I sprinkled various colors of Brushos over the top of the stencil and then lightly spritzed the whole panel with water. Because the water activates the powder and liquidizes the colors quickly, I immediately placed a section of paper towel over the stencil and, with the help of Ginger Lee, I patted the towel to wick up the water and stop it flowing. That's why the towels themselves are so pretty.

Once I removed the paper towel after a minute, I immediately removed the stencil and set aside the panel to dry. It didn't take long to dry because I had removed so much wet paint with the towel. (Several of my talented coat tendees told me that I could have taken the stencil and laid it on another panel to capture the remaining Brusho paint clinging to the stencil. Good tip!)

For today's thank you card, I used the piece of BSST in the upper left to make this:

The Dotted Die flag is by Avery Elle and the die-cut sediment is by Winnie & Walter. The NBUS on this card is little, but, hey, every little bit counts. It is the schparkly brads that I've had for ages. I believe they might be from Stampin Up.

Oh, also, I took my SU Island Indigo marker and ran it around the outside of the Brusho panel to make it stand out a little from the white card base. I made this card before I saw the current Less is More challenge which is peacock colors. Those are certainly peacock colors, but this card is too busy, so I'll just have to make another panel if I get the chance.

Challenges

• AAA Cards: New-to-you technique. The whole creating art with Brushos technique was new to me before I made these stenciled backgrounds. 
• CAS(E) This Sketch: Below.
• Pixie's Snippets Playground: Use those snippets!

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Thank You!

Thank you, my friends, for making NBUS Challenge #7 very successful!! In total, there were 304 entries in the Challenge! WOWZA!! You have shown that you don’t need prizes to be encouraged to dust off that old or new never-before-used-schtuff and give it some love! I appreciate that so much! I also want to thank you for leaving each other some love through your commenting.

I thought you might like to know how well you have done with all your NBUSSING since this challenge started on June 6, 2014. In just two years and three months and only seven challenges, you have linked up over 2,380 cards using your NBUS! At an average of 340 cards per 10-day challenge, that’s extremely impressive!

You can find inspiration from each NBUS Challenge gallery under the tab located at the top of my blog or you can find it on individual NBUS Challenge Pinboards located at pinterest.com/djkardkreations.

This is a hobby with a huge enabling element as new must-have products are constantly being released and new companies open. In addition to enabling each other through our beautiful card art, let’s also keep congratulating each other when we use that NBUS we just had to have! I’m very proud of you and you should be very proud of each other! Keep up the good work! MWAH!

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