Blending Brush Designs Made Simple!

Blending brushes are such an amazing tool for many techniques on your paper projects. I saw a card recently that used blending brushes to create a fun design on the card background, and it inspired me to play around with this technique. Today I want to share two different cards that I created using blending brush designs. Let’s take a look at them!

Blending brush designs make quick and unique card backgrounds. Click to see how to create them today!

Video Tutorial

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Perfectly Pears Bundle

Take a look at this cute stamp and die set! We also have coordinating designer paper and embellishments that are available as part of the Painterly Pears product suite. You’ll see all of these products on the card samples.

How To Create Blending Brush Designs

To try this technique on your projects, you’ll need to do the following:

Prepare a die cut with a decorative edge like waves or zigzags.
Mask off your card, leaving the area where you want the design to show unmasked.
Place the die cut over the unmasked area, and blend a color of ink either above or below it.
Repeat the previous step as many times as you like, with one or multiple colors of ink.

When done, remove the masking paper and admire your results!

Blending Brush Design Cards

Here’s the first card I created. I used a die from the Paper Tags set along with these colors of ink: Basic Beige, Granny Apple Green, Old Olive, and Early Espresso.

The other card I created uses Peach pie, Timid Tiger, Calypso Coral, and Daffodil Delight inks with a die cut from the Fancy Borders set…which is available while supplies last!