ID: DT Mar/13 - Caught In Crystal - Tulip Create card
size: 5"w x 7"h

Created: March 2, 2013
Modified: March 21, 2013

One of the Quietfire Creations DT does a technique at the beginning of the month and this time it was Holly doing a "Caught In Crystal" technique. We can try the technique if we want or not - up to us... I've done alcohol inks on plastic, but never went further with the Diamond Glaze, glitter & tissue paper, so thought I'd give it a try. BIG GRIN.

I'm using a quote from Quietfire Design which I thought was very appropriate for this challenge. "To create is to touch..."

So stamped my jumbo tulip (Inkadinkado) onto the clear plastic using Staz-On black and clear embossed. Note: I tried with Versafine and it never dried even after 24 hours... so wiped it off and re-stamped)

Note: make sure your plastic is larger than you need, so you don't get the inks and Diamond glaze seeping underneath,

I didn't find my Diamond Glaze so used 3D Crystal Lacquer. I put several blobs in various areas of my flower and dropped alcohol inks (butterscotch, raspberry) into the blobs in the colors for my flower, and then my stem (meadow). Using the tip of a bamboo skewer, smeared and moved the blobs around. Added more blobs of lacquer and the blue (Pool) of the background, smeared it around, then sprinkled with Distress fine glitter "Star Dust", then scrunched up a piece of white tissue paper, un-scrunched and lay it over the whole of my background, leaving some of the wrinkles for texture. Set it aside to dry completely.

Trimmed it down and adhered it to my cream toned card.

Die cut the corners from black cardstock, using Cuttlebug "Ornamental" die set. They're the negative pieces... Adhered them to the card with the lacquer.

Stamped the quote on a scrap piece of cream cardstock and clear embossed. Trimmed it around the quote and used a circle die from Spellbinders and my hard rubber mallet to cut around areas. Adhered to card with the lacquer.



 


 

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