Polly's great MIX challenge today got a scrap that's been in my box for a LONG time used and onto a card. You can see the card I originally made it for HERE, and if you look, you can see how Polly's challenge really transformed it!
Originally I'd stamped the paisley stamp onto yellow card and embossed. In a vain attempt to damp down what was left of the original piece, I could see that I'd sponged over it with some darker yellow to tone it down, but it was still pretty much in-your-face. So today I dabbed it with some green acrylic and die-cut the flowers - and then decided that they needed a bit more, so I also dabbed on some copper acrylic.
The leaves were cut from Bazzill and stamped and embossed with silver, to pick up on the silver swirls in the paper.
The base too came from my scraps box - originally I had trimmed the lovely paper along some of the swirl lines, but when I used spray fixative to attach it to white card, it discoloured a bit - so while the fixative was still wet, I sprinkled Brushos over it and put it aside.
I wanted a big sentiment to fill most of the white corner. Sadly, when I heat embossed it the decorative paper underneath shrank and curled slightly. But I thought to myslef hey - look at what that sentiment says and just roll with it - this is mixed media, doesn't have to be perfect and anyway the curl in the paper picks up beautifully on the die-cut petals in the flowers. So I'm happy with it, and I stamped the sentiment again on the inside of the card.
To finish, I added some gems to the centres of the flowers.
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Sat, Jan 07, 2017 @ 7:45 AM
WOWZA! great layering, has a bohemian vibe to it, so many wonderful elements to look at- those incredible flower petals, and the awesome background. Well done Sabrina!
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Tue, Jan 10, 2017 @ 8:57 PM
This is out-of-this world artistic! Love all that you did to change the original paper that you made and then used it for your flowers. Background spritzing is amazing with its glitzy swirl. I, too, love the sentiment!
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