Monday, 24 June 2019

Mosaic 's and Stained Glass

Hello Peeps!

My last piece of inspiration for the June challenge


The challenge is 

Stained Glass Techniques using Dies 
 TWIST Use some Glitter

I must say I did have fun making this.

Then I umm'ed and arr'ed about what medium I was going to use and eventually settled 
on my Tim Holtz Distress sprays, choosing four jewel colours.
That mean I had to get out the trusty pizza box and a piece of  thick white card stock.
As these sprays hadn't been used for a while, the nozzles were a bit blocked and so I shoved a needle into the hole to open it - I was facing the red one at the time and got a face full of fine red spray!
After cleaning off the ink, I applied them to the sheet of card instead.


TIP: wait for sprays to dry!!!
I was too quick and immediately stuck down a piece of double sided Sizzix sticky paper over my sprays - then as I peeled off the top sheet to leave a sticky surface facing me I also in places pulled back the wet surface under the sprays so had to pat them carefully back. It meant I had a flawed surface in places but I managed to get away with it.


You can see the yellow bit sticking to the top sheet in the photo above. 
Once the sticky sheet was clear I sprinkled my fine white glitter on it and pressed it into the sticky surface to create a sparkly base.


I then took my Alt&New Moroccan Mosaic Cover die and die cut from a sheet of black card the mosaic background. I actually die cut several different backgrounds to see which one looked better and this one looked quite good.


 I arranged it on the sheet of sparkle to see where it looked best and then trimmed off the pieces - you can see them on the side.
I glued the cover on the top of the sheet.

Taken in full sun

I die cut the word 'Hugs' from one of these pieces, using the SU die set Lovely Words.
I mounted this with thin foam strips to cover up the one spot showing where I had pulled the sticky up off the sprayed area. 

Taken in full sun

I then mounted the whole onto a card blank. 
However, I could have used this to decorate a bag or a box or a big tag.


Taken in shade

 There you have it - a stained glass look using dies and glitter.
I think it looks quite attractive - what do you think?

You have five days to enter the challenge at 


1 comment:

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

Beautiful effect, the sparkling looks great and love the mosaic die you used!