{"id":109,"date":"2019-09-13T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/articles\/how-to-use-make-up-brushes-for-blending\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:50:09","slug":"how-to-use-make-up-brushes-for-blending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/how-to-use-make-up-brushes-for-blending\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use make up brushes for blending inks – Pros and Cons – by Khyati Kothari"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAs an artist and crafter, there are always some products that catch my eye, not all the cool products released the entire year would stay with me when we reach next year, but then there are few inventions or ideas that are stuck through you. Distress inks were one such product that got me started to my crafting journey, and I have my Pinterest board filled with tons an tons of inspirations on how to use them to create a scene. However to my dismay, I was never able to do what these designers were able to do, sometimes the paper was incorrect, sometimes my hand was a bit heavy-handed making this product which started as my favourite to be nothing but stress.<\/div>\n
\nThen came along the videos on the life changing brushes and makeup brushes where people used them and were able to get perfect blends without a lot of effort; and I thought, meh not gonna work as always. However, I was pleasantly surprised that it indeed worked and gave me beautiful results that I always wanted. <\/div>\n
\nSo I made a video series on how I use these brushes and I thought I would share my honest feedback with you on these brushes.<\/div>\n
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<\/a>Now I got 2 sets of the pack of 10 brushes and these worked perfectly for me, however, the smaller brushes in this set are not that useful. They can be used when you have to stencil on your card or you need to use it on small areas (I will show you this in my video as well).<\/p>\n

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\nSo I got 2 different types of brushes to start off with, images and links added below. Images were taken from amazon India.<\/div>\n
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\nYou can either buy a pack of 10\/ pack of 5 but I would suggest you invest in a pack of 10 as you get more number of bigger brushes in those.<\/div>\n
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\nThe other blending brushes that I got also worked however I could not control the flow of inks on my page, it felt more like a soft paintbrush using which I can paint and not control any ink blending.<\/div>\n
\nHope I could explain why I did not like them.<\/div>\n
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\nNow what I did was I only took the larger, medium and smaller brushes for my blending. The extremely small ones I have kept separate for when I need them for stencil etc.<\/div>\n
\nI took a small heart punch and punched out different colour families that I need and I assigned one colour family per brush – So one for teal, one for greens, one for blues, one for violets, one for orange so on and so forth. So below is how my brushes look like –<\/div>\n
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\nOn how these works I have 3 cards to share along with videos where I share a demo of all the sized brushes and the other kind brushes.<\/div>\n
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\nAnother card where I demo both the types of brushes –<\/div>\n
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\nAnd a 3rd card where I blend a rainbow background because that is what got me interested in distress inks.<\/div>\n
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