Sep 03 2008
Summer’s End - Tutorial #113 and Brayer Give away
Many of you have notice and commented on the fact that I am using a new brayer. I’m using a new one because I wanted to use the exact one the people attending my brayer workshops get to use and take home with them. The new brayer is only different from the old brayer due to the handle. It has the exact same roller. :) There is this crazy rumor that my old Speedball Brayer is magical, lol. It is not magical, but it still has a great deal of life left in it although it is stained from a few years of use. Many of you have e-mailed me asking if you could have my old beloved brayer. Since there is more than one of you asking, I’m going to give it away. If you wish to enter for a chance at my brayer, please leave a comment on this post and I will use a random number generator to select the winner on the morning of Saturday, September 6th. If you are receiving my blog update by e-mail you will need to click on this link to enter a comment on this post: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/09/03/summers-end-tutorial-113-and-brayer-give-away/
Ok, enough about that. Today’s tutorial is for the SCS Sketch Challenge 192 and I’m using a stamp that I have had for years and has never seen ink.
Let’s get going on the tutorial!
Supplies:
| Stamps: Stampin’ Up Summer by the Sea and Canvas Background |
| Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Baja Breeze & Creamy Caramel |
| Ink: Stampin’ Up Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel & Tempting Turquoise, Palette Noir Black & Adirondack Aqua |
| Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Sponges, Brayer, Versamark Marker, Fine Detail Clear embossing Powder, Heat gun, Brads, Ribbon, Tim Holtz Ruler, Push Pin, White Gel Pen, Post it Note |
Stamped image on a 3.5″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White card stock with Palette Noir Black ink.
Colored his shirt in with a Prismacolor Carmine Red Marker.
Added Crimson Red to the creases of the shirt.
Colored his pants with Soft Sky Blue.
Added Periwinkle to the creases of his pants.
Colored over his pants again with the Sky Blue Light marker to blend them more.
Colored his shoval with Sunburst Yellow.
Colored his skin with Pale Peach.
Colored his hair with Walnut.
Added some Tuscan Red to the dark areas in his hair.
Went over all his hair with the walnut marker again to blend.
Colored the Sand Castle with Eggshell.
Colored over the boy, starfish and castle with a Versamark marker and heat embossed the images with fine detail clear embossing powder and a heat gun.
Brayered Adirondack Aqua ink at an angle on the top of the card stock.
Brayered Creamy Caramel ink at an angle at the bottom of the card stock.
Brayered more Aqua ink at an angel at the top of the card stock, bringing it down closer to the Creamy caramel ink.
Masked about an inch of the card stock top with a post it note and sponged on Tempting Turquoise ink, not covering the Aqua entirely. This puts in the horizon line.
Removed post it note mask and sponged Creamy Caramel ink at the water line.
Added a foam look to the water edge with a white gel pen by making dots and dashes.
Cut my two panels and sponged Tempting Turquoise ink on 3 edges of the two panels.
Sponged Close to Cocoa around the edge of the main image panel.
Stamped the Canvas background stamp in Creamy Caramel on the main image panel.
Note: I flip my large background stamps over so the rubber side is up and ink them by rubbing my ink pad across them. I then flip my card stock face down on the stamp and roll my brayer one time over the card stock. If you roll back and forth you will smear your image.
Wiped the ink from my embossed images with an old rag.
Sponged Close to Cocoa ink on the edges of the two panels.
Used my Tim Holtz Ruler and a push pin to add piercings to the bottom panel.
Assembled card and added ribbon and brads. Here it is finished measuring 5″ x 6.5″.
Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and are now inspired to try a beach scene of your own. 
May your day be filled with the smell of salt in the air and warm breezes blowing your hair.
Until my next post. . . . . . . . .. .
Hugs,
Michelle
Note: Links to all my tutorials can be found here: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/
Here is a link to my workshop calendar if you want to get info on beginner and advanced Brayer workshops: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/workshop-calendar/
Beautiful colours on this card Michelle. I wish the summer was twice as long! Thanks for sharing with us.
Diese Karte macht Lust auf Sommer……ganz tolle Farben.
LG
Gitti
Great card. Love the colors. It is beautiful.
Stunning! Love your work
What a sweet card this is! You really get the feel that the little boy here is enjoying his last days of summer. As always tfs!
I enjoy all your tutorials and faithfully read them from my reader! Love your work!
Have a great week! xxx
It’d be so nice to win your brayer! Thanks
Every day I check your website and drink my coffee. My creative juices get going each time and I am amazed at you talent!
I see the magic continues onto the next brayer. This end of summer card is as wonderful as the rest.
I would love to get some of that magic with the old brayer.
it is one another nice card , i love your technic and with the canvas background stamp makes it perfect
Wow this is gorgeous!!! I wish I lived closer to you so I could attend your brayer class. I have one, but have never used it, I’m too scared!!!
I can feel that sun on my face and hear the ocean sounds. Using your tutorials, I have created some very nice beach scenes and now, I can add another look by overlaying with a background stamp. Now, if Jeanne doesn’t get me my Stampin Up order soon, I don’t know what I’ll do as I’ve used up my white gel pen. Beautiful piece, you break it down so nicely it is easy to follow. Thank you.
Another fantastic card! I don’t know how you do it but, your cards always have so much depth and feeling. Does that sound funny a card with feeling??? oh, well I LOVE all you do! And it would be great to win the original MZ brayer:)
I can not believe how easy you make it look! However, I have been following your blog for months now and I have not tried one single technique. I keep telling myself it is because I don’t have a brayer or the right shades of ink but we all know that is not true, I am just chicken. In my dream world I just keep thinking “I could do it if I want to, I just don’t…” Oh, if only…
Paula
your brayer must be magical cause mine doesn’t seem to work that well : ))
Keep up the good work, and maybe share your brayer secret some day…..
cause I’d love to visit a workshop but I think my hubby won’t pay for the
flight ticket and I don’t have enough airmiles *lol
Ineke
Netherlands
You are the QUEEN OF BRAYERS. Once again, Bravo! Thank you for sharing!
A chance to win your magic brayer? Count me in!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for your inspiration. How ’bout a workshop in Minnesota?
I adore your cards! ALL of them! And I agree that your brayer MUST be magic! You must come to the Southeast! The Sunny South Needs some Zindorf!
Your breathtaking art often brings a catch in my throat, a tear to my eye, and a tickling in my brain to try my hand at using a brayer.
*STINK…I don’t have a brayer…maybe I will be the winner of the “Magical Brayer”…my head spins with the thought.
Thanks for bringing “WOW!!” moments to my day!
Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful! What more is there to say. Another fabulous card and tutorial. All the people who get my cards now say how much better my cards are now. I’m sorry but I don’t tell them ALL about you but let them think what they think.
And to that picky person who thought there was something “wrong” (she know who she it), she should just make it her way. I’m sure I’m not the only one who gets inspired by you but doesn’t have the same stamp or the same colors. I don’t worry about it. I just go off and create it my way. You have been wonderful in sharing your feedback. It’s art! There is not “wrong.”
I am so looking forward to the workshop in Austin. I’ll see you there!
On my walk today I saw many signs of fall. I can’t believe that the summer is almost over. This card will help make it last. What a beautiful summer scene. Does the magic come with the brayer?
Have a great day.
Trish
Sorry, I got carried away there and forgot to ask a question. When I try to pierce in a straight line, it ends up crooked. I sometimes remember to tape everything down, cs and template. Is there another way? TIA
As always, a beautiful card and great tutorial Michelle! If I happen to win your brayer, would you autograph it? Thanks for the opportunity to win your old brayer!
another awesome design. all of your cards are like a work of art, you go girl :).
And yes I would like to win that brayer of yours.
Michelle. Sept 6th is my birthday! I would love to win your magical brayer! What a great gift that would be. I love visiting your blog daily and enjoy all the tutorials and ideas you share with us. You are amazing and I love all the techniques you use and your art seems to come to life and jump right out at you. Let me know when you will be in Florida as I would love to attend your class because I am one of your raving fans! Keep up the great work and thank you so much for sharing your talent with all of us.
Debi Pippin
Inverness Florida
I absolutely love all your beautiful work! I agree with Shelly…you need to autograph the brayer…and of course you are going to draw my name…:)
Speaking of workshops…I heard you would be coming to Colorado (Longmont area) and now I can’t find the info. Is it still on?
Beautiful, but I have a question. How do you brayer a section without leaving a line from the edge of the brayer??? How do you get yours to look so “flowing”???? help!!!
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How funny that people want to buy your “magic brayer!!!” Now I’m expecting to see fairy dust twinkling from your brayer every time you use it. Hee hee heeeeee!
Gorgeous artwork, Michelle! Can’t wait to see what the next one is!
I would love a chance to win your brayer, but then I would have to come up with a new excuse for “why it doesn’t work”. Love the tutorial today, reminds me of Florida in early fall.
Would love to win the magical brayer! You are such a good artist and I am a great fan of your work. Look forward daily to your blog and the wonder that awaits.
As usual, your cards are amazing. Where do you get your ideas?
Gorgeous, gorgeous, GORGEOUS! Love the sweet image and beautiful composition of the scene.
I would love the brayer.. Being that I am a Witch maybe I could also bring out the MAGIC in it!!!
What can I say that hasn’t already been said “Your fantastic & your work is just awesome!!” You have opened up a whole new world for me!! Thank you
Lana
I love it. I wish I could get you to come here to teach a class. I may have to find a way =)
Michelle-
I would loooove to have your magical brayer. Maybe than I would be able to produce something remotely as beautiful as your work. By the way, this card is lovely, as usual.
thank you, Olga
I also would love to win your brayer! I love all of the wonderful cards that you make. Maybe if I win the brayer my backgrounds would get better! I keep practicing!
I love your work and can’t wait to try it out once i unpack my scrap room again… the magical brayer would sure help me get there faster.
I love your work. I have been wanting to get a brayer and would love to win yours!!
I make cards for prisoners. There are so many restrictions….no yellow ink (serity color) no glitter and no glue. Your technique is perfect for this project. Thank you for daily inspiration.
Love love love your work. YES! It IS magical and I sooooo need some of that magic hehehe. Hope I win and thanks for the opportunity!
Well, your brayer does magical work, that’s for sure!! But you are so creative with it!! My goodness!! Anyway, I’d love to win your brayer but my fingers just aren’t as good as yours. Guess I need to practice! LOL!! Thanks for the opportunity to win your great “loved” brayer!
Hi Michelle,
Great work of art, yet again. At first I looked at your picture and thought you used textured paper. WOW!. I would enjoy using your old brayer.. I don’t even own one yet. Am getting around to getting one eventiually…
Thanks for sharing
JOY
I live in So Cal..seems as if summer is 365 days.
First thing I do when I get up is look for my email from Michelle…
I love this tutorial…love them all and one day my brain may actually get the idea and one will turn out..well not exactly like Michelle’s but it might get an ooh or ah!
hugs
JoAnne
I love this beach scene. I will definitely have to try this. Have a great day!
You are an inspired artist. I really enjoy seeing your work and want to thank you for your generosity in sharing your art with us.
Every time I receive your update, I am excited to see the latest papercrafting adventure . I never know where you will take me but I love them all.
Brayer, brayer ,please come my way ! 8->
Love this card. Now as for the brayer, well I already have my own speedball (the original model) tho I have not stained it black yet - still working on that. So please don’t include me in the draw for your old one as I know the real “magic” is the skill in the hand that weilds the brayer. I wish you could come to Scotland and do some workshops because I can’t see me ever being able to afford to travel to the USA!
You just have a way of making the extraordinary seem easy in your tutorials. I don’t think I’ll ever master the white gel pen like you do!
I coud only hope to win some of your “Magic” to come along with the brayer. I seem to struggle with mine! Try as I may, I get lines most of the time. Kathy Eddy
Michelle,
I need your brayer! My brayer does not work like yours. Again another beautiful card!
Pam
I love your work!! I NEED your magical brayer. Maybe it can help me out…I just can’t get it right. Maybe with your magic brayer and your mojo from years of using it some will rub off on me. Sharon
Love your tutorials. I get so excited every time I get an email from you. Whenever I make one of “your cards” someone says, “That’s such a beautiful card!” I must agree. Thanks for posting, teaching, sharing, and inspiring.
Bonjour Mme Zindorf,
QUOI ??? vous allez vous separer d’un si fidèle ami? Votre ’speedball’ vous a si bien servi pendant tout ces années…. Oui, ce serai formidable de le gagner. Vos cartes sont toujour splendides.
Michelle, Love this card! Maybe because of the beach theme, which I hate to see leave us so soon. Also, like how you put the canvas background, makes it very interesting. Love to look everyday, to see what new creation you have made and shared with all of us. Thanks!!!!
What an awesome card! I absolutely love it! Thanks so much for sharing the “how to”. I love the idea of giving away your “magical” brayer! What a keepsake for whomever is the receiver!
I would give your magic brayer a special place of its own in my craft room.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Linda Peterson
Your art is so beautiful and you make it look so easy through your tutorials. I would love to win the ‘magical brayer’ and because you have worked with it maybe some of your talent will have entered the brayer and it will ‘create on it’s own’. I wish! Thank you Michelle for sharing with us.
I love your lessons !!! You make pieces of art !
Thanks for the tutorial! I feel like a dum-dum cuz until I read this and looked at all the pics I didn’t know what a brayer was!
Michelle, I love everything that you create!!!!! Your tutorials are the best and easiest to follow(if only I could get results close to yours…..sigh). I would feel honored to be the lucky person to receive your brayer.
Thanks for all of the inspiration you give,
Wanda
This is gorgeous Michelle! I can’t believe your giving away your magic brayer! I so want to win that =).
sure would love to get that brayer, thanks for the chance! I can’t wait to try this tutorial. love the ‘break’ between sky and sea!
I was just turned on to your site by a friend. OH MY GOSH what beautiful work. I would love to win your brayer and also would give it a special home. I haven’t done much with a brayer but your work is an inspiration and I will start. Love your site. Thank you for sharing your techniques, Linda
Love this card! Great giveway! Hope it comes with a bit of your talent too.
i love all your tutorials and am learning loads - I would love to win your magical brayer
Ohmigosh! A chance to win the magical brayer…woo hoo…Michelle, you might not think it’s magical, but to your legions of fans…it’s priceless.
I do love your tuts as I’ve emailed you in the past… keep ‘em coming. You’re an inspiration.
I would love to be the new owner of your beloved brayer… I would treasure it…
~Kim D in FL
I just love today’s card. It reminds me that summers used to end at Cape Cod, and my son hated get back home and back to school. Leaving the beach is tough! Now I’m in the desert and miss the ocean, so your beautiful cards bring back great memories. Your magic is still there with the new brayer. I wish I had your knack. If you ever want to visit Arizona, you’re welcome to stay at my house. Your room and board fee would be to teach me to brayer ! I know that even with your magic brayer, I’d do my same old crummy brayer job, but you can put me in for the drawing. Holding your brayer might give me confidence ! lol ! Thanks for all you do.
Love your tutorials - thanks for making them available to us. My 7 year old little neighbor girl even loves your work - she exclaims that it “looks so real!”
Debbie Schubauer
I love, love, love your tutorials offered! And to think that I could have a chance at the magic of your brayer.. what a cool thing!
Thanks so much for all the art you share with us daily!
I just found you through Splitcoast a few days ago and I LOVE your cards! All are mini pieces of art. You’re amazing!
I wait with great anticipation for your daily tutorials. They are so great, I just wish my cards would be as good. Thanks again. Wonderful talent!!!!!!
great card, super cute tutorial, and one more… I wanna that brayer!
You are the best! I can hardly wait to open your daily
tutorials. I’m in awe each time I open them. How
wonderful of you to share your talent with everyone!!
It would be such a gift to win your magical brayer!!
Thank you for the opportunity!!! And thank you for
your daily dose of inspiration…it’s a mental vacation
well needed in these hectic times!
To Michelle, a very talented lady,
Enjoy your cards and techniques. Really appreciate seeing how you shadow, how you emboss and then brayer and then your balancing of your completed card. Thank you for sharing, it’s one of the first emails I open in the morning.
Nancy T
Another beauty! I love how you used this stamp set…it is one of my favourites. Beautifully done as usual! Thanks for the opportunity at winning your old ‘famous’ brayer!
As fun as it would be to win the brayer, I think I’m all set. If the talent came with it, that would be another story.
Thanks for a great card today.
What a great card. My son is back at school and hubby is back to work….Ahhhhhhh now I can really concentrate and play! Thanks for the inspiration!
another absolutely gorgeous piece of art, Michelle. I wouldn’t mind a chance at that “magical” brayer.
Thanks for sharing.
Every day I come and visit your blog to see what wonderous creation you’ll make today and every time I’m just in awe. I can only wish that I’d found your blog sooner goodness knows what kind of wonderful I’ve missed in the past.
oh my gosh we are Zindorf Groupies! I would love a chance to win your magical and mystical brayer MichellE!! you are too funny!!!
Hi!
Just want to tell you that I LOVE reading & looking @ your brayer techniques. This is one that I am dying to try, but I am just too chicken…
Michelle,
This has to take you a TON of time! I so much appreciate that you share with us how you create these gorgeous works of art! I can’t wait to try these out! I love your SCS brayered sky tutorial. That’s the one that started it all for me!
Thanks again!
As usual, another gorgeous piece of art!!! I would consider it an honor to win your used brayer!!! Enter me quick!!!
Hi Michelle -
I don’t care what you say - I believe there IS magic in your brayer. And I would so love to have it.
As always, you’re card is gorgeous. Thank you so much for the tutorials.
Nancy
(smithr66 on SCS)
I just love this card. All your cards seem to come alive when you finish one. Count me in on this special brayer. Now the lucky stamper that wins this brayer….their cards will look just like yours?? (teehee) Thanks for a chance.
I’ve got to get me a brayer and try this out. Your works of art is absolutely breath taking. You make it seem so easy. I can see my frustration now, but I am going to try. Thanks for sharing with us and inspiring us to try. Barb.
Hope the magic comes my way! Love your tutorials, Michelle.
Lisa
OHHH Pick me!
I love your work and hope to attend one of your workshops SOON! Thanks for all your tutorials!!
THE BEACH SCENE WITH THE LITTLE AND HIS SAND CASTLE ARE VERY NICE. THE COLORS ARE SO BRIGHT AND CLEAR. THOSE COPIC PENS ARE THE THING—HOPE SOMEDAY I CAN AFFORD THEM.
A GREAT WEB-SITE YOU HAVE—I READ IT ALWAYS.
WOULD REALLY LOVE TO HAVE YOUR “OLD BRAYER”—JUST LIKE ME IT HAS ALOT OF GOOD YEARS LEFT.
THANKS, TOMI JO
Michelle, I would love to win your old brayer but please leave a little fairy dust on it, it might rub off? I love the beach scene you created for us today just gorgeous! Thanks for all you do for us.
Absolutely gorgeous! And beyond that, inspiring! Thank you so much for your tutorials and sharing your gift! Your brayer would be very welcomed here in my brayerless home!
Michelle, If your brayer can make me do brayering like you do I would love to have it. Your cards are gorgeous.
Hugs Joan
I love this card. I want to go and help build a sandcastle with the cute little boy. Thanks for your wonderful tutorials
I would love the chance to win your magic brayer! You a truly an inspiration! Thank you. Linda
Your cards have been inspiring me for weeks now, and I am hanging out for a brayer - so if I should win yours, I trust that the ‘magic’ would transfer, but I guess it will be practise and more practise that would result in images like yours!
Thankl you soooo much for sharing your talent and inspiring other aspiring artists
Maxine - in springlike New Zealand
I’m making a wish and blowing on my magic crystal. Hope the brayer comes my way! Thanks for the wonderful photos and tutorials.
If that is a magicial brayer I hope I win it. I love what you do with a brayer and Oh I need so much practice.
Thanks for all your tutorials.
I love your work!!! This card is wonderful-I would not of thought of doing a beach scene like this. You and your brayer are magic. Thanks for sharing your talent.
I don’t know that I could use it if I did win it… I would not want to wreck the ju ju it has… but I would rub is all over my brayer to give the one I use some ideas! thanks so much!
Dawn Knight
I’m sure the person that receives this giveaway will have just a little bit of the Zindorf magic rub off on them. So please let it be me!
Hello Michelle!
Oh, you would make my September 8th birthday an extra happy one if you picked ME to receive Michelle’s Magic Brayer on September 6th!!
Today, on the way to the cyber cafe where I now sit to write you, I picked up my wonderfully luscious set of Prismacolor Markers at the P.O. Oooooooh, they’re soooooo pretty!
*And*, I have the SU! set you used for today’s marvelous TooT!! So, I might bite the bullet this weekend: get my stamp set out, break-in my new markders, and give my brayer a go to see if I can make a card even 1/16th as cool as yours is today.
Thanks for another fantastic lesson!
hugs,
~jeanie.
Please enter me in the drawing for your treasured brayer! Thanks for sharing your
special artistic talents! I await a new one each day!
Nelda Deakins in TN
Another great card!! Well I guess I would like to be entered to win your old brayer and hopefully the talent will stay in the handle and transfer to the new owner! Thank you!
I love visiting your web site. Please enter me in the drawing for the brayer! I hope one day I can take one of your classes. Thank you.
Great card. Yes I would love to use your bayer. I can`t imagine touching! I notice today that you use Prismacolored Markers. Would you recommend them over copics? I love my Prismacolored Pencils.
Heather
As always, a great card. I look forward to your daily tutorials. Thank you so much for sharing. I think your brayer truly has magical qualities. If I win, do you think the magic would be passed on?
Marliese
Down here in Australia we are just starting into Spring. The days are balmy and the nights are still fairly cold. Your card makes me long for the days long past when I was a child making sandcastles on the beach. I absolutely love your creations and tutorials.
I love all the tutorials they are wonderful! I am so inspired by all your cards. Thank you!
Michelle I’d like to be a heartbeat away from your famous and original brayer. It lead you all the way to where you are today!
Great card and what a treat - a chance to win your brayer. Thanks for the opportunity.
Now that will cure my lack of being able to copy your work, to have your magic brayer!!!! Wish me luck!!! Oh sept. is also my birthday month. Fingers crossed.
Give away the brayer?!?!?! Shouldn’t it go to an art museum?
Another great beach scene. It’s so the end of the summer.
I would love to have your magical brayer. Maybe just the fact that you used it will make me an artist too! Beautiful work as always!
How cool!!! Love your tutorials and would love the chance to win your “magical” brayer.
I remember fondly days on the beach like this, and miss them most of the time because I am now here in the mid-west. But we had a lovely crisp fall-like day here in MN, and I love that weather more, I think!
Thanks for sharing all your talent, and even the thought of owning your brayer makes me gleeful!
I totally love that card! The only thing is I *hate*
watching the use of markers that are so cool cuz I have this great big tug a-going on!!! And there are way too many other things I *NEED* LOL….
oooohhhhhh - and put me in for the op to win the magic….I mean brayer!! LOL
thanks!
Reen
Each time I learn new skills. Thanks so much for sharing. I really like that canvas look. It would be an honor to win your brayer.
I have this stamp set!!! I will have to try this after Christmas - my husband has promised to get me the complete Prismacolor marker set for my gift! I can’t wait! Getting your brayer would be the icing on the cake! I love visiting your blog to see what new wonders you have created. Please enter me in the drawing for your brayer.
Thanks for all the hard work that I know goes into these tutorials. I have learned so much from you!
I absolutely LOVE your brayer tutorials!!!! The use of the canvas stamp really sets this image apart, making it look even more like a painting. TFS Kathy
I honestly don’t know how I stumbled upon this blog and your tutorials - but I thank God I did! I am new at card making and will have a lot of fun trying your tutorials. Thanks so much for sharing your giftedness with all of us - you are a blessing!
I would love to be entered into the draw for your brayer - after seeing your work - I have added a brayer to my wish list.
After this tutorial, I have decided that I need to add “some” Prismacolor markers. Thank you for your sharing attitude and giftedness. Your card is awesome.
Well, I do not want to be mean or rude or greedy…BUT I really, really, really NEED your magical brayer. Seriously. I do. really. So, if all of the other kind people would recall their comments it would improve my chances!!!! (LOL)
As always, your site is an inspiration to everyone who visits. and what you bring to the world is magical (even if you say your brayer is not)
thanks for it all!!! sandra
So the brayer is the secret to your talent, I would liketo have it now please…….. the brayer and your talent!
I look forward to visiting your blog every morning, I can’t wait to see what you’ve created with the magic brayer. Your ideas never cease to amaze me, they are so good. I would love to have your brayer, maybe some of your talent will wear off.
Seriously, I appreciate you spending the time creating and documenting your tutorials, they are awesome. I would love to attend one of your c lasses, maybe one of these days I will. Here’s wishing you the best, can’t wait to see what you have for us tomorrow1
Oh MY!
How cool would it be to have Michelle’s Magic Brayer!
WOW!
I would love to be the lucky winner!
Barb
Michelle, how do you do it. You come up with the most creative scenes using what seem to me as mere stamps. I love your tutorials and visit each day before I go to work. I have on occasions even been able to produce a card following the recipe religiously. Although It doesn’t work as well when I add my own flair. This one is exceptional, and lucky me I have all the stamps.
Keep them coming Christine Vancouver BC.
This was a nice tutorial! I love the color choices in the Prisma Markers!
I still need to know how to brayer ink in those smooth moves that you do!
It would take me a long time to make a card like this, but I am watching all your tutorials since I discovered and signed up for your Freedom in Creating site!
Even when I attempt something close to your techniques, my cards look so much better! I just started stamping this year, and love every minute of it.
Just can’t get over all the supplies a card crafter needs! Sigh. I am putting a good Prisma Markers set on my Christmas Wish list!
I really need a brayer though–and I don’t have to have yours (although it would be nice)! I am buying one this weekend and coming home to practice, practice, practice!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful abilities! I appreciate it so much!
Thanks for all the inspiration, unfortunately for all of us you make it seem tooooo easy. Love your designs. Have a great day. Mary
Hello,
your talent is awesome and leaves me wanting to try new things. You great such great pieces. Thank you for taking the time to show us how.
Dawn
Michelle,
Your work is such an inspiration, you are so creative and talented. Colors are awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your work with us.
Jan
Beautiful Michelle!!!! I have that boy! ;D Now if I have YOUR brayer I just KNOW I can create not nearly as well as you! Haha! ;D
Great card!!! I’ve never used a brayer and would love to learn how with a “Magicial Brayer”
oh the magical brayer - that would be a wonder to win, if only it’s magic stayed although the hand using had changed =)
I’m pretty new to stamping. Thanks for the how-to!
verry bautyfull like allways.
to win something would make may day! And specielly from you, because i’m verry impressed av you way to stamp.
have a nice day.
Johanna
I wish I lived in the USA so I could attend your workshops - you work is amazing and I do think your brayer does have some of your magical talent sprinkled on it, smiles Wendy P (New Zealand)
Aloha, I live in Hawaii so I enjoy the beach daily and especially enjoy the water tutorials you have done. We would love to have you come and teach here and be inspired by the beauty of our Islands. The tutorials are so detailed they are easy to follow and my cards are improving with practice. Thank you so much for the small details that make such as big difference. Mahalo.
I absolutely love this site. Your tutortials are very simple to understand and I would love to have a chance to win your brayer. I also think it has a magical touch as the talent you hold in that little brayer is absolutely amazing.
I hope I am the lucky winner of the magical brayer! LOL
Sincerely,
Cheryl
Oh WOW - I’d love an opportunity to win your brayer - how wonderful of you to share.
Wonderful Michelle,
I am so glad to have the opportunity to tell you how very much I enjoy your brilliant tutorials. It is so generous of you to take all the time and effort and thought to post them! It is amazing to see what can be done when cleverly thought-out plans team with artistic creativity!
Thanks for all your terrific and inspired instruction!
Rochelle Getzler
I love always to read and learn from your Tutorial, this card is so nice, I like also the Canvas Background Stamp, it makes the card more nice. I hope I get your Brayer because here in Germany I never found it
Thanks for your tutorial.
Love,Monika Reeck
I would love to enter your giveaway. I often thought it would be easier to have a brayer for each color you were using instead of constantly cleaning inbetween. This would be number 2. Love the card
Thanks for a great tutorial.
June
The color in this baby is striking, love it all Michelle. My brayers doesn’t work like that either. So when the time is right, I hope to be able to see your class here somewhere in MN. Thanks again Michelle for sharing
Hey a original Michelle Zindorf Brayer, what a nice Idee!
I hope I win your old Brayer, because i am a Fan from your Works and in Switzerland i never found this Brayer.
This is one of my favorite sets. I do tiles with it as gifts. The stamps are so stained they do not come clean anymore. I love this card! Just one more thing for me to do with the set, LOL.
Hello, I love your work with a brayer! It’s Fantastic to see what you make with paper, inkt and stamps, just GREAT!!
Such a terrific end of the summer card, so love the foam, can’t believe you drew that in, awesome work!
always wondered about the Versa marker
thanks Michelle..you really did answer a lot of questions I had….
hugs
JoAnne
Can I say wow! Girl I wish I had your artistic talents. I tell my hubby about you all the time and just how creative you are and how beautiful your cards are, they are more than cards! I would love to be one of the special people who gets to receive your cards =) Such talent! I look forward to creations daily!
Wow, the chance to own the “Amazing Zindorf’s” brayer. What an honor. I have just recently discovered you and worship the stamping ground you walk on. You have totally made me think outside the box. Thanks for sharing your talent with so many.
your work is wonderful and I enjoy looking at them everyday. Maybe your old brayer will bring magic to my art!
Really beautiful. I like the canva effect!
Wow if I were to win I would prob. frame the brayer! It’s coming for the GREAT Michelle
I always am in SUPER DUPER Awe of what you do. It always puts a smile on my face. I am yet to use a brayer so maybe this is a sign! lol 
HUGS to you for sharing your amazing talent with us.
It looks as if you are a hard rubber Speedballbrayer rather than the softer rubber, hmm. Interesting or maybe the rubber is just a different color than mine is.
I just learned of your blog today. Your tutorials are fantastic. Thank you for sharing your technique. I love this card.
I love to watercolor this little guy!! Great tutorial!! TFS!!
Another great piece of art! Love the coloring, brayer-work…plus your use of accessories. Great job!
Of course, we all “need” that brayer…but I sure hope you pick me!!!
Will an autograph come with that brayer, that would be fantastic!!! I would cherish it forever or anyone who is fortunate to be the big winner I’m sure!
Another beautiful card, I luv it!
Stunning (as usual)! This one just took my breath away! I LOVE the beach….love to feel the sand between my toes and the wind in my hair….love to just sit and listen to the waves crashing….WOW! What memories this brings back! Thanks so much for sharing your creations with us and also for sharing the instructional tutorials - they are easy to follow (and for folks like me who are not that artistic, that is important! ha ha). I look forward to your cards every day!! Thanks again!
Leeci
I am so looking forward to the chance of winning your brayer - I’m “brayer challenged” but maybe with a little work - I’ll improve!
Love your work.
Michelle, This picture is so calming. I’ve had a very stressful year since my Mother was diagnosed with cancer this past Christmas and I literally quit stamping and crawled into a hole. But thru lots of answered prayers and good friends, we are starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. And about a month ago I found your blog and website and it has given me such inspiration and I am starting to stamp again. You never know when God will put an angel into your path and in some ways you have been one of those angels for me! God bless and keep up the great work. It is such a blessing! Terri in Missouri
Another beautiful card!
Thanks for the chance to win your brayer! It may not be magical, but the pieces you’ve created with it sure are!
Beautiful, so pretty and peaceful to look at. I have been at the hospital for the past 2 days and don’t know for how many more days. . . my nephew was in a serious car accident, serious though thankfully stable. Thank you, for all the great scenes you do and show us how we can try our hand at them.
God Bless, Inkyhive aka Jesse beehive@itol.com
Your work is so beautiful - thanks to Greg at Marco’s for pointing me in your direction!!!! I can’t wait to check out the rest of your tutorials!
Linda aka Mommaho
very nice
Oh my…I’d love to have your magical old brayer! Love love love your tutorials. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work.
And yet another great scene - not a surprise. I would love the opportunity to win your magical brayer. Maybe it could teach my brayer some tricks! :o) I am so glad you continue your tutorials. I study every one of them. Thank you,
BettyAnn
A chance to win a magical brayer? I’ll take that chance. Especially if you sprinkle some of your creativity dust on it! 8-}
You are such an inspiring artist, I look forward to your blogs and wonder what is the next thing that you could possibly show us. You never seem to disappoint. Keep it up!
Thanks again!
I have been receiving your daily posts for about 5 months now. Love your work and your the choices of vivid colors. I took a class last Saturday and we made a card front using your techniques. My card is Beautiful. Sure would love to have your old brayer….Hopefully there will be some creative juices still left to help me make some beautiful cards.
Ashley Anderson, Surprise Arizona
Oh wow, this is another wonderful card. Truly love the colours.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Minna
I just found your site and I love your stuff! I’m sure you’ve heard that before! I really need that brayer , cause I do think it’s magical and if I had it I would be able to stamp like you!
This is brilliant I love the colours and detail can you buy these in the uk? If so where do I get one and what price should I be paying.