 Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemian Crafting here again. Today I would like to share with you some idea which came from my trying. The other day I received the beautiful comment from Merrick Craig. I hope I'm pronouncing the name right way. So Merrick Craig made a beautiful comment under one of my videos and she also asked the question. She asked me how I would color with inks or with something large spaces to make even evenly coated full-size color. But I hope my explanation is not confusing. To color some big space, maybe a file folder with colors can be tricky. And sometimes we didn't have to get fully coated and nicely coated background. So I tried few techniques. What I like the most is to use full ink pad but not totally brand new one. I like to use older inks which are kind of halfway dry, if that makes sense. And with full ink pad with circle motion kind of apply the ink. But it doesn't have to work all the time. Even this coating can give you not evenly coated or not evenly colored background. So I tried few other techniques. I tried paintings. And while I'm trying I try to have a look into my home. What kind of tool I can use for fully coating or fully coloring background. And while my discovering one thing which is my baking tray, silicon baking tray. And this one I'm not gonna use for baking anymore because I decided this will be my craft tool. I already cutted the corners. Usually this baking tray has this like full side panel or I'm not sure how to say that. I cutted these corners to make sure I can flip it over and use this backside which is not this glossy one. This is more like matte one. And I'm gonna show you why. I use this baking tray for trying to spread my inks and spread acrylic colors and spread any kind of painting I do have here. And transfer them to the paper. When I coated with the inks with the acrylic paint, this glossy side of my baking tray it gave me backgrounds with so many drops like this. Because that coated, that glossy coated side it's kind of like separating your inks and your paintings to drops. I'm not sure the right English word for that effect but it makes beautiful drops. So if you wanna achieve drops in your backgrounds like this, this glossy side of baking tray it's perfect for that. If you wanna have more this coating which is nice and smooth, that opposite side, this matte side of baking tray it's such a perfect tool for craft. And I also tried the techniques which is usually used for how you call them jelly plates. I think it's called the jelly plates. So I tried the technique here and look at that. I did my jelly plates with my baking tray. So today I'm just gonna quickly show you what I did on my baking tray. I do have here two inks and I'm gonna show you both sides. First I'm gonna show you this glossy side. This is by the way one of the cheapest baking trays and it's size for A4 size paper for printer size paper. Here I do have just ATGSM papers just for this drying. And my paper can fit there nearly all. It's nice and beautiful size of that baking tray. I'm gonna be using these two inks from Spectrum Noir. This blue one and brown one. This is Ocean Blue and this is Friar Brown. So I'm gonna be using this. I'm gonna be using brayer. And first I'm gonna show you on this glossy side and then I will show you also on that mat side. And both of them I'm gonna do exactly the same way. First I'm gonna spread the separate inks and then I'm gonna try to mix them and I'm gonna place my paper on that. Okay my hands on that as well. And then to show you. So here you can see those little drops and that's spreading of the ink. So more precise you will be with spreading the ink with your brayer. More carefully you will coat the background. The better colors you will get. I do have leftover of that ink on my brayer. So I'm gonna place there the back of that. Okay my crazy tool. I had this glossy bottle which I had empty. So I wrap it just with a piece of cloth and I'm using it here and there where I don't want to get too much colors on my fingers. So I'm using this one. You know till I will buy some tool for that. And this is very soft coated background. So I'm gonna flip it over. Do exactly same on this mat side. First I need to clean my brayer. So I'm gonna add here brown ink, blue ink and again first I'm gonna spread those inks separately ish and then just go. I'm gonna take one clear sheet of paper and show you. Where is the first one? So hopefully you will see that on this this paper which is from mat side you have slightly softer or smooth layer of the color. There are no these little bubbles that much like are on this from glossy side. So it depends on the effect you wanna get. Use the sides of the baking tray and I'm gonna also show you how I did that dumping. It's so much fun. I think I will buy that jelly plate because if that works better way than here but it works really beautiful way on this baking tray. So I'm sure if I have to buy jelly plates I just wanted to try you know and I'm not good in kitchen so I don't mind that much that I ruin all baking tray and we do have two another ones. So it's not big deal. And they did cost only £2. I'm gonna grab some stamps and I think I'm very lazy to try to do some layers so I'm gonna use just full sheet of these stamps from Tim Holtz because they are right next to me and I'm gonna use my beautiful tool for pressing. Kind of softly press my stamps and I'm gonna use the other ones as well and place them right next to it and softly press these stamps. Here clear sheet of paper, place it over it that will be enough and I do have my stamps. I can take another clear sheet of paper. I'm gonna use that brayer and just add here the left over what I do have on my brayer. I'm gonna place there my sheet of paper so the colors should be very soft really very soft colors. Yeah I do have kind of crazy colors. I can also spray a little bit that baking tray, put my paper back with these soft colors and catch any kind of leftovers I had there so I do have really beautiful crazy background and I can also I'm gonna take a new sheet of paper and I can also use the stamps and transfer any kind of ink I got on my stamps to my paper. So that way I will create more background papers which I can use later on for my projects and if I will take back my beautiful baking tray I can easily clean all colors because it's silicone so just very easy way so this time I'm gonna take just blue ink I'm gonna grab my brayer just to make sure there is not brown ink some brown ink left over I'm gonna wipe it to my cloth and I'm gonna use this these stamps I think I'm just gonna make a better layer here and I can place them there I can continue one more time and I do have like coffee stains stamps so I can add there some coffee stain stamps and I'm gonna just very softly just a few drops nothing too much just really few drops place there that paper and I should be careful with my drops but I do very soft very soft background now I need to let it dry if I will spray this all and if I will spray it what will happen oh I'm wondering oh I do have these splatters okay so I do have brown ink now and what I did last time with this I did stamped into that blue ink so I'm wondering if that will transfer we're gonna try it looks like it did transfer the blue ink we will see just bear with me I've got here these stamps just gonna finish this side oh come on clear paper and we will see voila look at that it did transfer blue color well done oh so this way you can do actually something similar like this jelly print it's so much fun if you will try to find some bigger silicone mat it doesn't have to be silicone tray it it will be perfect I do believe it will be perfectly working also with silicone mat something what is made from silicone and it does have this mat size or if you are going for the drop drop drop look drops look just use some some silicone mat with this glossy side and I do believe it will work amazingly well so I'm gonna continue my trying all these transferring inks and all that stuff I'm gonna have a fun here and I hope this will help to anyone who will try to apply the ink to larger backgrounds and to try to coat it evenly as I said I think if you will be you know patient and you will try to make a nice even coat with the brayer on some silicone mat or silicone tray this way some larger pieces can be colored so one more piece get the beautiful color and if I will be really careful I can have nice even coat on all that paper and if I will add there more the color will be more vibrant so this is my sharing for today this is my little experiment with kitchen supplies I do love to dig in my home for any kind of you know supplies which I can use in my craft especially when it's in kitchen and I don't have to cook with that later so this is my sharing for today I hope this was helpful hopefully it will give you idea what to do next in your craft session enjoy your craft have a fun and thank you so much for watching thank you so much for spending your time with me today have a beautiful day take care about yourself and I will see you soon bye