Materials:
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Zia Stamps: Cattail
Sphere, Cattail, Night Ginkgo Sticks, NDR's Night Swirl Leaf |
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16 x 20" black mat with 6 ½"
circle cut opening and chipboard backing |
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6" square piece of cork paper |
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7" piece of art paper |
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Inks- brown dye ink, black and gold pigment
inks |
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Embossing Powders- Gold, rust and copper |
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Chalk palette, fabric markers |
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Heat gun, glue gun, scissors |
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Technique: |
- By using a few stamps and limited colors
create a cattail-styled landscape on your mat. Keep the "weight"
in the lower 1/3rd of your mat.
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The Sphere- |
- Stamp Cattail sphere in brown dye ink
onto cork paper. Color image with chalks and markers. Trim and
mount on coordinating art paper.
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The Mat- |
- Stamp the cattails in clusters of 2-3
in the lower ½ if the mat in black pigment ink.
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- Emboss cattail "tops" in
rust and the stems in gold and/or copper powders.
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- Randomly stamp the Night Ginkgo Sticks
in black pigment ink and emboss in gold.
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- Randomly stamp NDR's Night Swirl Leaf
in gold pigment ink. To achieve the "shadowed" leaf
imagery, do not re-ink your stamp image every time it is stamped.
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