Today's Technique Challenge is based on Lydia's tutorial found HERE. And I admit, I've been wanting to try it. I love the way the flower looks after Lydia was finished and the hard part was NOT recreating the exact same thing she did, lol. So I purposely hunted for different images...maybe a bit ambitious to use so many leaves, though. It took me quite a while to "etch" them all. Then I wanted to color them...but I didn't want to cover up all those etched lines so I masked them, placed a piece of drywall mesh on top and sponged in some bg color.
After adding the greeting, I also added a frame by using a ruler & a black pen & a hint of border color with a water brush & the rusty hinge distress ink and some stickles on the oak leaf/acorn for the "sparkle" part of challenge.
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Monday, September 22, 2014 GMT Views: 2368
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