I was really pleased to see that Lynn had given us the Faux Grid technique today. It was the CCEE challenge last week, and I had fun with it but didn't do what was in my mind, which was a peacock inspired by a lovely ceramic tiled tray my mother used to have.
My base is A2, covered with some Joanna Sheen marbled paper.
The peacock layer was made by stamping the peacock with black onto white card, and colouring with watercolour pencils. I added some Sakura Stardust for glitter - turquoise to the peacock's crest, and clear to all the green eyes. I randomly stamped the flower from Roses in Winter with ColorBox Pigment Prussian Blue, and added some green to the centres. Then I drew the lines in with a brown pencil. Some lines are double lines, for extra interest. I also sponged in a little bit of light brown to give an aged effect. Then I used Versamark and UTEE to build up 3 layers of glaze, after trimming it down to size and punching the corners. I stuck this to the base, and added black Stickles around the edge of the card, and faux brads with turquoise Stickles in each corner.
Despite the rainy day meaning an indoor photo, I hope you can still see some of the sparkle.
DH likes this one .
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009 GMT Views: 1508
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Registered: May 31, 2008 Location: Seattle Posts: 14509
Mon, Jul 13, 2009 @ 10:50 AM
Sabrina, this is gorgeous! Fabulous peacock and papers. I'll bet your mother's ceramic tray was pretty, too. Great memory.
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Registered: July 1, 2007 Location: small town near montreal, quebec Posts: 26677
Mon, Jul 13, 2009 @ 1:52 PM
I love your peacock! Is he ever colourful to say the least! Yes, I can see you have stamped images there...okay, I'll have to go back and make another just so you know I can. LOL
Excellent work on the faux grid technique. Yeah, YOU aced it. TFS
Registered: April 18, 2009 Location: Boston suburbs, MA Posts: 14060
Mon, Jul 13, 2009 @ 2:22 PM
This is beautiful, Sabrina!! What lovely colors. And, yes, the sparkle shows nicely in your photo I really like that peacock image and the marbled paper, too. Super job on the challenge!!!
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