Leprechaun Lure Challenge

I'm dropping a fun challenge on the blog today, because it has been a while since I've been here and I wanted to share a fun mixed media card from the challenge. I hope you are all doing well, and still getting into the crafting space more than I have been.

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)

Plus:

• 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)

Instructions:

1. 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!
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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).
5. Glue and trim the paper towel to the card base.
6. Emboss coral cardstock with Crocheted Mandala 3D embossing folder, rub with metallic wax or paint in gold.
7. Use up the rest of the mixed gold paint on scrap of white cardstock and spatter with white tinted viridian paint.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Add sentiment and flowers, adding small flowers around the card as needed in coral ink.
11. Make flower centers with Pale Gold Crystal Drops.

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