This card is going to Teapotter Ann's (annsforte) Aunt Mimi. My card won't reach Mimi before Christmas so I decided to make a general card without a sentiment.
Throughout the year I try most of the techniques here at SCS, very often I don't have success, but I do love the results.
This was one of my favourite 'failed' backgrounds that I have had in my stash just waiting to be used.
I wondered what was wrong with my texture paste when I was trying to stencil the flower...turns out I was having a seniors moment and I was using Gesso instead of paste. I tried to plump it up a bit by adding white paint.
I applied distress inks to the stenciled flower and blasted it with my heat gun. Bubbles started to appear as the paint was melting. I had to cut the left hand side off as the paint started to smoke and it looked a bit burnt.
The background is a combination of alcohol inks, distress inks and rubbing alcohol. There was a chemical reaction that caused the glossy paper to turn matt and marbly. It looks great in real life, but I don't think it would be easy to reproduce.
Because I had to cut the burnt bit off, the panel was too small to fit the die-cut frame. To make it look like I had done this on purpose, I edged the panel with gold Twinkling H2O and added some to the centre of the stenciled flower.
Thank you for looking.
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Wed, Dec 27, 2017 @ 10:08 PM
Oh MY...chuckling all the way! Susie, this is a FABULOUS failed piece of wonderful art that you've created. It's like the mad chemist at work in his lab...I too would like to visit with Robin to your craft room...so remember do be careful with your fly swatter! There are just no words for your lovely, bold sunflower and your "burnt" background!
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