Sunday, November 23, 2008

Napkin, glazes, and rubber stamped background

Marci Glenn came up with a great tutorial using napkins and glazes. Then she suggested a swap, which she will hold in January. I'm trying to get ahead of things, so I started mine about two weeks ago and finally finished them today.

I suggest you see Marci's tutorial, since she did an excellent job, showing all supplies and steps involved. These were the steps I took.
I began by applying my napkins to card stock, which I used as the substrate.
I applied glaze per Marci's instructions , but instead of applying and wiping off, I used a sea sponge and skipped the wiping step. I applied a dark blue glaze that I toned down using beige glaze. I mixed up way too much glaze, so now I have enough for many projects, some of which I've already posted..
Next I did the same using a dark green and beige glaze.
I then cut arount the flowers which were the other half of the napkins and glued them over the glazes.
Finally, I chose swirls and snowflakes from my limited stamp collection. I stamped the swirls using lime green dye ink and the snowflakes using white pigment ink. They are now ready to go.
In a way, I wish I'd never used the glazes. I actually liked the brightness of the original napkins better, but the instructions were to use glazes, so that's what I did. I'm sure they'll look better once they are cut and turned into backgrounds.

2 thoughtful remarks:

Anonymous said... 1

Elizabeth - these are wonderful. The colors are great and you are right, once you cut them up for backgrounds, they take on a life of their own. Thanks for trying my technique. Hugs.

Anonymous said... 2

These turned out great...you've been very busy! what an inspiration you are in sharing so many informative posts with us...thanks for giving so much of yourself to us!
Dianne