Today's Technique Challenge (TLC67 & Clean & Simple (CAS469) are both about backgrounds. The TLC wanted us to make a stained glass bg & I totally cheated on this one. I promise, if I have time, I'll come back & do it right. 😉 We're in the middle of putting up chair rails & painting the dining room, so time was limited & I knew I had this great stained glass image in my stash.
I put the Stained Glass Oval image into my Misti then stamped the image w/ the desert sand. I knew I wanted to gold emboss it but since I also wanted to color it w/ Copics & the two don't play well together, so it was stamped first w/ an ink color that would allow me to see the lines but also disappear when embossed.
After coloring it, I over stamped it w/ gold pigment ink then heat embossed it w/ gold powder. I die cut a piece of lilac card stock & a larger piece of sage green then cut the ovals out of the centers. The Happy Easter Cross was stamped, colored & I cut around the top to let more of the stained glass show through then attached it behind the oval frames & then on top of the stained glass background.
Thanks so much for looking! It's on my blog w/ closeups & Copic colors: The Write Stuff
Date: Monday, February 19, 2018 GMT Views: 1560
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Tue, Feb 20, 2018 @ 12:09 PM
So soft and beautiful...love your glass bg. and how you brought the colors out with your lovely layered framing and pearls...well done...TFs..:0)
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.
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Tue, Feb 20, 2018 @ 2:02 PM
Julie this is toooooo beautiful!! Oh how I love this, it is just perfect!!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
Love how this turned out, with the soft colors and especially your BG! Thank you for sharing the tip about embossing after coloring. Need to keep that in my back pocket!