April 2003 Beyond Cards Project - The Zia Cork Paper Cattail Sphere

Going "Beyond Cards" with Stamp Zia

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"Falling Feathers" 16 x 16"
by Zana Clark of Stamp Zia

Materials:
Stamp Zia Stamps: Large Ginkgo Leaf and Peacock Feather
16 x 16" white mat with 10" circle cut opening and chipboard backing
Fibers
Awesome Art Paper - Fernmania
Art Papers - royal blue (11" square) neutral/textured stock, Silver Foiled Paper (Marco's Paper)
Inks- teal and slate blue pigment inks
Embossing Powders- Clear and Silver
Chalk palette, colored pencils
Heat gun, glue gun, scissors
Screw Punch- The Creative Mode

Technique:
	By using only two stamps and a limited color palette create a textural treasure of papers, fibers and stamp images in Stamp Zia's Random Pleasure approach!

The Mat-
1.	Stamp Zia's Peacock Feather stamp on the mat surface using teal pigment ink and emboss with clear embossing powder. Do not overlap feather images - turn stamp to move feather direction and to "fit" feathers together with space left in-between. Leave the lower right corner a bit more "empty" of stamped images.
2.	Color Peacock feathers with coordinating chalk palette colors and colored pencils.
3.	Punch random holes into the mat with a screw punch, and then back holes with silver foiled paper.
4.	Add artful scribbles on the mat surface with coordinating colored pencils.

The Collaged Center-
1.	Stamp three Large Ginkgo Leaves onto neutral colored art paper in slate blue pigment ink and emboss in clear and silver embossing powder.
2.	Tear out the stamped Ginkgo Leaves.
3.	Collage/Arrange together for the circular mat opening: the three torn-out leaves, Awesome Art Paper-Fernmania, a selection of matching fibers and an 11" piece of textured royal blue background paper.
4.	Glue arrangement down with glue stick and attach to back of mat opening with glue gun.
5.	Sign your work!

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Zana Clark
1-262-534-6039
zana@stampzia.com