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This is a photo of the project I made for my friend Sandy Hayes' daughter Casey. Sandy held a celebration recently in honor or Casey's 21st birthday and I made this for her. It's a canvas type frame or mat--the kind that you slide your photo or whatever into the opening. I stained cardstock using Adironack Color Wash (it's a fabulous dye for paper, fabric--whatever and am just teaching myself how to use it!) using greens and browns. The dye is so intense that it's easy to over do it. I stamped and embossed the words and sayings after dyeing the paper. I cut the cardstock to fit the mat and glued it using soft gel medium. The black background is cardstock sprayed with spray paint from Lowes called "Hammered"--which resulted in a great mottled effect on the paper. The butterfly and dragon are stamps and I stamped/embossed the same image over and over--about 12 times using Powder Keg embossing powders--using several different blends of powder. As the embossed image starts to "build up"--it's just so beautiful how the colors start to blend. I cut the image out using exacto knife and attached to another piece of cardstock. And attached that to a "pile" of cardstock cut the same size to give "depth" to the image. Just adds something. Cut the four holes in the corners using this fabulous hole puncher I paid $40 for and have never regretted this purchase!! I can even cut holes in my clay pieces with it! Then put the brads on the images in the four corners. Glued to the black card stock. Put a couple of coats of soft gel medium--think I mixed matte and gloss. And it was done!!
Michelle liked what I did for Casey, so thought I try something a little different to sell at the store. Same technique as above but I had a "happy accident"!! I had a dozen or so pieces of cardstock spread out on my work table and was spraying water to dilute some dye when some of the spray splattered on some of the already dyed cardstock and I thought, uh-oh! About a minute later, I saw how very lovely the effect that water had! The dye ran and blended and created beautiful streaks and new colors!!!! It was fabulous! Doesn't matter whether the paper is dry or not, it'll blend and streak. I was spraying water on all the paper I'd already colored and loving the results. So these three examples are the result of this happy accident!
Olivia and I were talking about one of the things a "creator" needs to have: bravery, no fear about making mistakes!! Just go for it! If it turns out to be a mess, no matter, you learned something, but if it turns out to be beautiful--YAY!! I'm finding being fearless to greatly inhance what I can produce!
Made a set of three--don't know if they'll sell as a set, so Michelle said she'd price them individually.
Just another example of what I made for Casey. Olivia has taught me to make at least two of anything I produce so I won't be reluctant to give away or sell the original! It's so hard, as a beginner, to part with my work!! They're like my babies!! And I'm afraid I'll forget how I did it!
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