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"Swim With The Stream" Stamp Artist - Dolly Roit Background: Brayer on 1/4 white glossy cardstock sheet with Caribbean Sea Kaliedacolor ink pad. Spray with fixative. Wrap rubber bands randomly around brayer and ink with various blue/Green, (Harbor, Seaglass, Royal Blue, etc.) ink pads. Brayer for wave motion. Spray fixative. Using Scarlet Red & Cardinal Red ink, randomly stamp "menpachie" fish going all in the same direction - DOWN stream using "Mirror Image" stamp. Ink oblong shadow stamp with harbor Blue and stamp bottom corner. Stamp words in black over shadow stamp. Silver Fish: Black Memories pad, and stamp menpachi image on "Art Emboss" foil. Cut out fish and dry emboss black lines. Reink with black and gently stamp over the foil fish again and emboss with clear powder. Glue black & silver beads to form fish eyes. Glue silver fish in the middle going UP stream. Trim and mount on 1/2 sheet silver mirror cardstock Images: Fred Mullett 001, River City Rubber Works 1209-J, both available from StampDiva Brayering Submitted by: Peggy Ruff My favorite technique is to brayer from a "Big and Juicy" pad onto glossy cardstock, let dry.  Mix ¼ tsp. of gold Pearl Ex with 1 Tbs. of water and 1 Tbs of gold acrylic paint (if you don't have paint, add 1 Tbs of Perfect Paper Adhesive).  Put into a fine mist bottle. Spray this mixture over the brayed cardstock and let dry. Stamp your image in black pigment ink and emboss with black embossing powder. This technique is really great with scene stamps. Stamp Artist - Peggy Ruff Roll the brayer over a multi colored inkpad to "ink it up;" then roll it onto cardstock to transfer the colors. (glossy cardstock works best) Use either a multicolored or regular inkpad and roll it along an edge of a homemade stencil. You can use cardstock (or thin cardboard) cut with specialty scissors as your stencil- would make a nice pattern! You can also make plaids by putting rubber bands around your brayer, inking it up, rolling it on. Inking up another set in another color and rolling it on. Rubber bands randomly put on your brayer would make an abstract background. Ink up your brayer on a multi-colored pad and then ink cardstock in a rainbow. Then spray the cardstock with a fine mist of water. Try a brayer in yellow ink over some bubble wrap and then lay your cardstock on the inked bubble wrap and "pull". You'll get a honeycomb impression. Use a punch to punch out any piece and then lay your punches down on plain cardstock. Brayer over the top and then pull off the punch pieces. Everything will have color except where punches were. BRAYER WITH BUBBLE WRAP - A Tip from Suze Weinberg's Tips & Technique From: Diane White - NC3Diamond@aol.com Class "Have you ever wondered what you could do with the bubble wrap that comes in your packages? If you follow these very simple directions, you can create wonderful backgrounds that resemble honeycombs. You have 2 choices here...Firstly you can ink up your soft rubber brayer with dye ink from a pad and roll it over the bubble wrap. You get a slightly lighter concentration of ink this way. OR ... You can lay the bubble wrap face down on the ink pad and rub your uninked brayer across the back of ink, transferring the ink on to the bubble wrap. You get a little more ink concentration this way. Your choice ....either way is fine. Lay the bubble wrap face down on your card. Use a clean brayer to roll across the back. Clean the bubble wrap if you'd like to use more than one color." My S. S. made me a card using this technique. The background of the card looked like honeycombs. Then she layered a bee on top of that. Very pretty.