Masterboard Monday.

    Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

I am here today to show you how I make my cloud Masterboards:

Lots of people have been asking about them so I'll do my best to explain how I do this but it is easy.

So lets get started.

Choose your colours. 

I usually have two blues and some pale pink, yellow, lilac, maybe.

I also find it easier to blend the inks with these brushes rather than sponges but that's just my choice.

There are lots of companies that sell these masks, Lawn Fawn, Altenew, My Favourite Things and Waffle Flower are a few. 

You don't want a stencil that wont work for this.

I've used an A4 sheet of card but you might want to use a smaller piece until you get used to the technique. The weight of the card is up to you.

I work from the top down but I know some people start from the bottom and work upwards.

I like to use a plastic mat to smooth the ink onto before adding it to the card so it's applied lightly.

It's better not to have too much ink on the brush when you start.

Apply the brush lightly from the mask in an upward direction.

Some of the ink will stay on the mask and you can continue to push that upwards until you are satisfied with the depth of colour.

And then move to a different colour. 

I'm using yellow here and pushing the colour over the edge of the mask, blending it lightly with the blue.

Take a look at the real clouds and you will see that there can be a variety of colours mixed in, sometimes these can be very bright or just lightly visible.

When I move to the next cloud I try to match the shapes as near as possible where they join though it doesn't always work exactly.

Maybe it's just me being fussy! but it gives a cleaner finish to the design.

Continue to add your clouds, arranging them as you go making some clouds narrow, some long, some short and round and rotate the mask as the edges are different.

Keep adding your chosen colours and adding blue in between which reminds us that we are looking at the sky.

Keep going until you reach the bottom.

And you end with something like this.

All you need to do now is push the brush up from the bottom edge to colour the blank space.

And you have it.

The centre one here I have just completed and the other two I made earlier. 

I'm showing you these as they are slightly different but I've gone for quite bright colours.

This one had Glitter glue added to it.

And I sprayed it with drops of water, lifting some of the colour off.

It would look good with splashes of ink or stamped rain drops. 

You could even add the sun in there too.

This is one that I'm working on at the moment and it's noticeably lighter.

Because of how I wanted to use this I turned the A4 sheet so that I was working on the long side.

Hope you give it a go. 

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

I would love to hear your comments about these instructions too.

Many thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,

Angela x