Friday, March 30, 2012

garden of shimmer

hi all!

no chit chat today - just bizness!  i am joining the SCACD girls for the latest release - Susana Loves Stamps presents the Eye of Dreams Collection!  You should have arrived here from Lou Mac's blog

I got to work with this little cutie!
Her name is Garden Eyes.  I colored her with my polychromos pencils
her flower garden is done with Luminarte Primary Elements artist pigment powders and one of the newest Crafter's Workshop stencils by Julie Fei-Fen Balzer - you can get them at SCACD!
I began by mixing up some shimmering mist using Primary Elements, gum arabic and water in a mister.  I misted the paper with sunburst and summer breeze.  Next I mixed Blushing Rose Primary Elements with Dreamweaver Translucent embossing paste and scraped it over the stencil and lifted.  Gorgeous shimmering pink embossing paste flowers!
my simmering glass tile is actually a piece of chipboard from a maya road collection - i inked it, covered it in UTEE and added primary elements on top along with more UTEE - look for a video on this technique and more soon!

Be sure to mention that our International Friends can purchase these stamps at Quixotic Paperie:

now head on over to my long time buddy Sandie's blog for the next stop on the hop.

10 comments:

  1. OOOH.. She's FABULOUS!! Love love love how you work those polychromos. Beautiful card Marti. xx

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  2. Ahhh!! Her skirt and wings are amazing - the gradient is just awesome, nice work!! xo

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  3. Just wanted to drop by and thank you for joining in the fun today and what a wonderful project :)
    Hearts and Hugs!!!
    Susana

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  4. Gorgeous, Marti! Love your coloring of the new sweetie and all of the cool techniques you used on your card!!!

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  5. Ohhh such a COOL technique and design! Great work!

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  6. Ok... so I want you to know that my keyboard was acting up (it does that every so often). This time the letters E and V weren't working (you can see on Melanie's blog lol). Anyway, I had to shut down and reboot so I could pop on over here and tell you that your card is OUTSTANDING!!! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE your coloring, your doodles, the cool tile technique and all the fabulous new product and design here. Beautiful :D

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  7. Oh this is just gorgeous dear. Love it

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  8. Oh Marti! I miss you!!! This is gorgeous and I love the tile you have with. Beautiful creation.

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