So........this all went wrong! I was in the mood to play and colour and downloaded this digital stamp from "The Sketching Stamper" .......I also read a tutorial about colouring with distress inks - of which I only have two, so I played with regular ink pads. It was coming along nicely when, typically(!!!) I had to take it to another level and used some metallic gold ink - looked great! I then put some Crystal Laquer on all the little cones and let it dry ..........Yikes! Where I put the metallic, it went GREEN. As I have never seen green pine cones, it was pretty much ruined so........what the heck right? I took a dark brown Tombow marker and coloured OVER the Crystal Laquer. It sort of "stayed" so I then put MORE Crystal Laquer over that and it went kind of weird but I walked away and I came back to this fabulous "tortoise" effect!
Not sure if this is a technique or if I invented it! The photos don't do it justice - it's really fabulous!
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Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009 GMT Views: 291
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