I made a fairly muted background with a tag and some splatter and put a large die cut sentiment on top.
Here's how I made the tag. I sprayed a piece of mixed media cs with a dark red spray. Once dry I used my Dreamweaver gold embossing paste over a holly stencil and left it to dry. I came back to discover that the gold embossing paste had dried the colour of the background - it had obviously absorbed the pigment from the sprays! Definitely more muted than I wanted!
So I then placed the stencil back over the embossing paste and went over it again with Bo Bunny gold glitter embossing paste, hoping that would dry with more gold showing - it worked and it gave more contrast to the background than the Dreamweaver gold paste had! I trimmed the piece down and created the tag top with a SU punch.
I die cut a wonky stitched background panel and sentiment, flicked some of the spray over the background panel, found a piece of gold ribbon that matched quite well, and was glad to call it done after my struggles with the embossing paste!
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2021 GMT Views: 639
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Accessories: dark red spray, SU tag punch, Tim Holtz holly stencil, Dreamweaver gold embossing paste, Bo Bunny gold glitter embossing paste, gold ribbon
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Thu, Mar 11, 2021 @ 6:40 PM
Love this Xmas card. TFS. Happy day
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Thu, Mar 11, 2021 @ 11:21 PM
Beautiful, Susan. I remember having a similar experience when I got up early to add paste to a background before work, only to find when I came home that must of it was invisible. Your second layer rescued it. Like Pat, I thought velvet too - it's beautiful.
