If you are ready to jump into the challenge, here is the link. MIX633: Leprechaun Lure
I wanted to use the new (to me) Crocheted Mandala embossing folder on my project so I worked around it. Ironically I ended up with only a little strip of it on my card BUT I love the details of the folder.
The rest of the steps are down below in the instructions section. Hope you are inspired to try something like this card or even a technique I used. Have fun!
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Featured Product(s):
- Crocheted Mandala EF (AZ)
- DecoArt Metallic Lustre Silver (AZ)
- Gold Metallic Paint (AZ)
- Paper Towels (thin - AZ, regular - AZ)
- Clair Nocturne Ink Pad (AZ)
- Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide (AZ)
- Picked Raspberries Distress Oxide (AZ)
- Flower stamps (mine is a retired set) (alternate SBC)
- Gelli Arts Monoprint Plate (AZ, alternate AZ)
- Acrylic Paint in Viridian, White, Brown and Yellow
- Rainbow Loom Rubberbands (AZ)
- Nuvo Crystal Drops (AZ)
- Watercolor paint (AZ)
- I wiped up a previous watercolor mess with commercial paper towel at work, and it looked so pretty I saved it. Mix a bit of red, and orange, and more yellow all over a nonporous surface and then lay the towel down on the wet surface. Dry and keep it handy for a project like this one!
- For the challenge it was a bonus to mix your own gold, green gold at that for leprechaun lure. Equal parts were suggested on the internet, of brown and yellow but it took a bit more yellow. I added a smudge of viridian green to give it the green gold.
- On a dry watercolor paper towel, make marks with the gold mixed paint. Add whatever else you want like I added white tinted viridian spatters all over and marks with leftover viridian on my palette knife.
- Add it to white cardstock card base cut for an A2 envelope, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches folded to 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches).
- Glue and trim the paper towel to the card base.
- Emboss coral cardstock with Crocheted Mandala 3D embossing folder, rub with metallic wax or paint in gold.
- Use up the rest of the mixed gold paint on scrap of white cardstock and spatter with white tinted viridian paint.
- Monoprint a viridian background paper. Add white and viridian paint to monoplate with roller/brayer. add rubberbands randomly and pull a print on white cardstock, set aside. Add viridian and a few smudges of brown paint to plate and roll it out, laying the first pulled print over the plate and rub around leaving it to soak and dry a bit. Pull when the edge of the plate comes clean of paint.
- Start adding torn and cut pieces as desired to the card base. I chose a sentiment from a stamp set that had little flowers that I decided to use. Stamp them in coral and raspberry colors on home kitchen style paper towel ( it soaks in the ink better) and cut out or if you have a matching die that's even better.
- Add sentiment and flowers, adding small flowers around the card as needed in coral ink.
- Make flower centers with Pale Gold Crystal Drops.
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