More Glitter Painting for Gof7

Hi everyone.  Another card for October's Group of Seven technique - Glitter Painting on Acetate.

Unfortunately, it's very difficult to photograph cards that use acetate because the light bounces off and reflects.  The only way is to make the card fairly dark ... and that's what I did, but I lost the sparkly goodness of the glitter that's added to the back of the images. :(  Trust me, in real life, the card has sparkle! :)

All in all, I'm happy with my finished cards, but did not enjoy working with loose glitter.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps:  Floral Holiday Trio (Magenta); Snowglobe Sentiments (MTF - retired)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Acetate
Ink:   Versamark; Candied Apple Distress Ink for sentiment
Accessories:   Liquid Platinum embossing powder (Ranger), heat tool, glitter in different colours, glue

Challenges:

Group of Seven - Glitter Painting on Acetate 

Glitter Painting - Group of Seven

Hi everyone.  

Please check out the details for the Glitter Painting Techniques and link to videos on the blog ...

Group of Seven Cardmakers

You will see gorgeous sample cards by the group members.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make a card in time for the start of this month's technique.  I'm not really settled in my studio since our last move, and the piles were getting higher and higher.  Before one of the piles fell on top of me and hubby had to launch a search party ... I pulled everything out of the room and have just finished (mostly) putting it back.:)  Hopefully I will spend less time looking for things and more time creating. :)

This is my first card since getting set up.  This is a fun technique that is a bit messy, but I had a scratch sheet of paper to catch the glitter poured over my image and used it to quickly put the leftovers back into the containers.  I also used my large Surface Sweep brush (Tonic) to keep things tidy.  It helped.

I'm sharing a card made with the technique that uses die-cuts.  I followed the instructions, but next time I'll layer two dies before adding glue and glitter to give it more depth for adding glue.  Then add a third die-cut over top to finish the card.  I would like to try this using a different background.  You don't need to use acetate with this technique.  Coloured card stock would look good too, along with other substrates.  This should minimize the stray glitter that gets stuck to acetate, which seems to have it's own static cling!

This card uses the lovely Hibiscus Frame die (SSS).  I used spring green and dark purple glitter, which is so pretty together.  The sentiment is Endless Birthday Wishes (SU - retired)  I love the font on this and will always keep the set.

Sending this card to the Seize the Birthday #294 - Anything Birthday Goes

This has been fun.  And a great way to use glitter that has been sitting around for a long time.  Hope you'll try out one of the techniques (or both!) and add your card to our gallery.  We'd love to see you there.

Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps:  Enless Birthday Wishes (SU - retired)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.)
Ink:   Wilted Violet Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Acetate, Hibiscus Frame die (Simon Says Stamp), Mono Tombow glue, glitter, Paint brush to brush away stray glitter

Challenges:

Group of Seven - Glitter Painting

Seize the Birthday #294 - Anything Birthday Goes

Special Friend

Hi everyone.  I made today's card for a very dear friend.  We met at work through a mutual friend and have been friends for over 30 years now.  It was her birthday a couple of months ago and I made a special card to mark a milestone birthday.

Frances loves irises.  I knew what image I was going to use.  I wanted to do something special, so this is my first try at this technique - glitter painting (which my friend Susan taught us at the craft retreat in May).  I've been waiting to give Fran this card. :)

The irises are stamped in permanent black into onto a piece of thick acetate.  I let the ink dry thoroughly before moving on to the next step.  On the back of the acetate, I covered the center of the irises with glue and sprinkled with a light purple.  Once dry, I added glue to the rest of the flower petals and used a deep purple glitter to fill it in.  Last, I repeated the same of adding a layer of glue and then coating it with green for the leaves.  I let it dry overnight to make sure it was completely dry.  I'm so happy with how it turned out.  You may be able to see a little of the sparkle from the glitter, but it is very sparkly in real life.  I added a simple white frame and stamped sentiment.

Here's a close-up ...

Photographing acetate is difficult.  This is much brighter and totally sparkly in real life.

Stamps:  Summer Glow, Happy Snippets (Penny Black)
Paper:  White (Neenah 110 lb. card stock)
Ink:  Versafine Black ink (for stamping on acetate); Memento Black ink (for stamping sentiment)
Accessories & Tools:  Acetate, Glitter (light purple, dark purple, green), glue (Tombow Mono), Rectangle Nestability die (Spellbinders)