For Linda's super WT challenge today - Linda, you come up with some wonderful ideas! Are you a Tortoise or Hare?
I fell in love with the card in the Masking Fluid Resist tutorial when I first saw it. But I knew that if I didn't like my regular writing on a card, for sure I wasn't going to like what I might achieve with masking fluid! Fast forward, and I recently got a Masquepen in a local school supplies shop. That already would make writing easier, and then I had the further bright idea that I could use the negative of a die-cut as a stencil to guide me. So, Linda's challenge gave me the push to actually try this.
The base layer is a failed layer, sigh... the Hello was a bit neater, but I got some old thin masking fluid on the back of the card and then when I sponged it, it looked different where the stain was. I pretty much followed the tutorial. The second layer, I trimmed it down, edged it with gold and layered it onto the fail layer. Added some gold twine and a gem brad, and in the end I stamped the focal point feather again and embossed with blue EP, finishing it off with Stickles.
Time taken- if you count the failed base, two and a half hours, plus another twenty minutes later messing around with the twine! But there was a little drying time involved in each layer, which was used for other stuff - like tidying my desk .
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 GMT Views: 2629
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Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50475
Thu, Mar 26, 2015 @ 2:12 PM
This is totally dreamy..a real magical card! I'm with you about spending time fooling around with the twine...it takes me forever to tie bows, etc and get it to look just right..that's why I hardly ever put them on a card.
Registered: February 13, 2005 Location: Southern Ontario Posts: 26258
Thu, Mar 26, 2015 @ 2:41 PM
What a fantastic card! I have used masking fluid in my watercolour for years but never even thought to use it on my cards...duh!! The background on this beauty is wonderful.
Registered: January 6, 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 20543
Thu, Mar 26, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
Beautiful!
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