Painting the Town Red

Hello Peeps!

Welcome to Tasmania and the Winter Festival 

Dark MoFo

when the town is painted red for two weeks

A pretty special photo from the lookout, on the summit of kunanyi/Mt Wellington, thanks to Jan Brylle 
When Dark Mofo red starts to reflect at the top of Mount Wellington Observatory with a lil' bit of peaking 

Milky Way.
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Today I want to share what I made for the latest challenge at 

Unstampabelles

Stained Glass Techniques using Dies 

 TWIST Use some Glitter

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I decided to use a beautiful new die set from Stampin' Up called Butterfly Beauty

This set has 20 dies in it: I only used one of them but I die cut it five times.

I have a selection of fancy glitter papers built up in the stash - most of them are from Stampin' Up but there are a few others there as well...

So after picking some jewel colours for this piece of work, I die cut out four of them.

You can see in the first photograph a blue sheet and in the background some others face down.

This has left me with four other diecuts to use another time so wait to see them in future.

Then I die cut the butterfly in black card - yes, that is one big die.

I attached this to a piece of white card using Sizzix double sided sticky paper, 

which leaves the top side of the white piece sticky where the black card does not touch it.

I had to be careful not to rest my hand on this sticky bit and disturb the surface.

I carefully dis-assembled the other four die cuts by removing each internal piece I required carefully with tweezers and placing them into the corresponding space on the black butterfly.

You can see in photo 1 that I had got about half way through when i took this shot.

(Finally remembered to document the work!)

In photo 2 I have completed filling in all the spaces with a variety of glitter paper pieces

You can see a line towards the top of the white sheet that delineates the end of the sticky surface.

I covered all this surface with fine white glitter and then trimmed away the excess card.

TIP: I keep my white glitter in a take-away food container and try and contain all mess in this container if I can - doesn't always work but keeps spillage to a minimum.

That jar of fine glitter I have had for over five years.

I rubbed the glitter over carefully with my finger to remove excess and brushed off the bits collected on the card before mounting the whole onto a piece of purple card and then onto a black card.

I had diecut a sentiment in black card to match and added it with some glue as it stays better on the glitter than anything else.

A close up of the colours - poor photo, sorry about that.

See that with this die you can remove individual butterflies to make the die smaller or to suit the project.

There you are - creating a Stained Glass card with some die cuts and some glitter

Now it is your turn to create something beautiful. 

Unstampabelles.