May 2003 Beyond Cards Project - Zia's Water Lily Sphere with Koi

Going "Beyond Cards" with Stamp Zia

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"Zia's Water Lily Sphere with Koi" 16 x 20"
by Zana Clark of Stamp Zia

Materials:
Stamp Zia Stamps:
- Large Water Lily Sphere, Large and Small Leaf Pairs (Day and Night) and Small and Large Zia Koi
- 16 x 20" white mat with 6 1/2" circle cut opening and chipboard backing
- Art Papers - jade green (7" square), magenta (6" round), 1 sheet of white card stock
- Inks- teal, green, chartreuse and pine pigment inks
- Embossing Powders- Turquoise, Aqua and Green
- Colored markers and watercolor pencils
- Heat gun, adhesive, scissors

Technique:
	Using a complimentary color scheme, stamp this summer scene to welcome the season!

The Mat-
	Stamp Zia's Large Night Leaf Pair stamp on the mat surface using a combination of "green" pigment inks and embossing powders on each leaf pair. Add Small Day Leaf Pair where a less solid image is needed. Make sure to turn the Leaf pair stamp to change the "direction" and to "fit" leaves together. Leave 50% of your mat background unstamped.

The Water Lily Sphere- and Koi
1.	Stamp the Large Water Lily Sphere onto white card stock using the pine pigment ink. Throw both the turquoise and the Aqua embossing powder over the inked top portion of the stamped image to get a variegated "watery" look. Emboss the lower lily area in green powder.
2.	On the remaining cardstock, stamp 2 Large Koi and 1 Small Koi in pine pigment ink and emboss in green.
3.	Use watercolor pencils and colored markers to accent and fill in leaf/flower areas and Koi.
4.	Cut sphere out and mount onto Magenta paper circle. Cut out Koi and arrange on top of mat, glue down.
5.	Glue jade paper to the back of the mat opening and then center the magenta edged sphere to it and glue down.
6.	Sign your work!

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