Although I like the card I made yesterday, it looked nothing like what I saw demonstrated several years ago at a stamp convention. I couldn't remember what was done at the demo (my visual memory is very poor). So I went surfing the web, and over on
Cloud 9 in the tips & techniques, there was a mention of what I had seen, it all started to come back, hooray! I stamped several open images onto coated card stock. In using the metallic colored pencils as a resist, the trick is to color heavily, to have lots of waxy build up.
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Next, I covered all the images with black Archival ink.
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Then I rubbed the card stock with a paper towel to reveal the coloring underneath. I like how these images look like carved stamps.
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I trimmed the 3 images to make 3 different cards. For the first card, I trimmed a piece of one of the
textured papers I colored last week, to be the background. Added a quote stamp from Wordsworth stamps, ribbon and paper flowers attached with a large brad and mounted on black card stock.
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For the second image, I choose this
faux leather tissue paper background as it reminds me of water, perfect to set off the dragonflies.
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Decided to play with some of the new Cuttlebug embossing folders to make the background for the third image. Started with a dark goldenrod card stock and ran through this folder and ran a lavender Distress pad over the raised areas.
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Ran the same paper through with a different embossing folder and ran a green Distress ink over the top.
Trimmed the background, added black brads, stamped a saying, added the image and attached to black card stock.
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I had fun playing with these metallic colored pencils, and have 3 more cards to use.