Urban Grunge Brusho Layout

Hello everyone! I hope your weekend was nice, even with the very tragic event in Orlando. How awful and so sad. We spent a lot of time outdoors again this weekend. It is Monday again and this week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge we have a World Traveller theme. Lots of options for this one.

I felt like doing a scrapbooking layout and remembered this A4 photo that I took quite some years ago in Johannesburg. It isn't a perfect photo, but I don't have a lot of photos of downtown Johannesburg (I rarely brought along my camera there), but it would have to do because I wanted to tell the story about my relationship to this big city. Every place has good and less good aspects, and  when in a new place, I try to focus on the good ones. It took some time for us to become friends, but we did eventually, and there are lots of things from Johannesburg that I miss. The journaling is tucked in behind the layout, because it was too long. 

The cityscape at the top of the layout was built with Nathalie Kalbach's stunning Urban Scribble set, which contains a cling stamp, a foam stamp where both sides can be used, and a stencil. I didn't use the stencil.

Start by stamping the cling stamp several times on the smooth side of Ranger's watercolour paper, with Jet Black ink. I coloured the houses with Brusho Crystals, because they worked well for the colourful, yet somewhat gritty, look I was aiming for. Crystals were first mixed into a little bit of water and used as ordinary watercolour paint. Before the paint dried completely, I sprinkled grey or black crystals onto the houses, to get a textured look.

When dry, I misted just a little bit of Tim Holtz Brushed Pewter Mica Spray on the buildings.

The background was done on watercolour paper too, and first covered with gesso. When dry, I painted it with watered-down Tumbled Glass.

The back of the foam stamp was stamped repeatedly with Hickory Smoke paint, using both first, second and third generation stamping. The purpose was to create the look of a big city stretching into the background.

Then I used the front of the foam stamp and Jet Black ink, adding some outlined buildings here and there. I also used two stamps by Tim Holtz, a script one which has addresses from Johannesburg on it, and a cool number stamp.

I cut some of the buildings out and placed them on top of the others with foam dots, to give my city more dimension.

Here you can see some of the stamping. I just love that the script stamp has addresses from South Africa.

The buildings on this large stamp are wonderful and so varied. You can easily cut them apart and they would be great to use on a card or an art journal page too.

At the bottom of the photo, I placed another two buildings, and stamped a circle stamp from Hero Arts, on a piece of paper coloured with the Brusho crystals, while testing which colours I wanted to use.

The title was die cut with Tim Holtz Wanted and Alphabet Typo Lower dies, from metallic kraft-core cardstock, and slightly sanded. 

I hope you will join us in our World Traveller challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram ? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Stampendous URBAN SCRIBBLE FOAM STAMP, CLING STAMP AND STENCIL SET	Colourcraft BRUSHO Crystal Watercolors 24 Set	Colourcraft BRUSHO Crystal Watercolors 8 Set	Tim Holtz Sizzix ALPHABET TYPO LOWER	Tim Holtz Sizzix WANTED
Hero Arts DISCOVER THE WORLD	Hero Arts PRINTER'S LOWERCASE Alphabet	Tim Holtz LIFE ADVENTURE	Tim Holtz ULTIMATE GRUNGE	Tim Holtz Core'dinations KRAFT CORE METALLIC 12 x 12
Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Ranger TIM HOLTZ DISTRESS Designer Mica Sprays	Tim Holtz Distress Paint HICKORY SMOKE
Tim Holtz Distress Paint TUMBLED GLASS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology GAME SPINNERS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology LONG FASTENERS	Darice 6 WELL PAINT PALETTE Plastic Tray	Ranger Inkssentials PIPETTE
Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER
Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix CUTTING PAD XL Pair	Ranger ADHESIVE FOAM WHITE
Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger	Tim Holtz SANDING GRIP

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