Card for a Friend

CCC#27 - Distress Misting Masks

One of my favorite things to do is add color over a mask.  The weekly challenge over at Studio L3 for the ongoing techniques in Tim's book, A Compendium of Curiosities, is just that.  I couldn't stop at just one tag so I made two using different colors for each one.  I am fortunate to have almost all of the colors of Perfect Pearls that work so well with Tim's distressed products. 

Better photo - Nicho

Donna took a photo when she received the nicho which turned out better than mine even though we both had a problem with the glare on the left-hand side.  Here is Donna's photo.  (thank you)

Nicho

For a long time I have wanted to make a nicho that are so prevalent in Mexico.   My dear friend who moved to Mexico last year sent me some to experiment with.  I wanted to finish one up to return to her for Christmas; however, I didn't get it finished until the day after Christmas so it turned out as a Happy New Year package.

I added foil to the metal nicho and lined the niche with the same foil.  Then I added alcohol inks in colors that I thought would go well in her studio, using blue for the birds.  I merely sponged on some inks and played around until I liked the results.  When Donna sent me the nichos she included a match box with the picture of the Virgin Guadalupe so I cut the box apart and used this photo for the inside of the niche.  I poored one layer of Ice Resin, set in the photo and when dry poored in a second layer and set in the tiny beads to cover the edges.  

To finish off the outside panels and to hide some of the seams of the foil tape, I applied some German scrap.  The top triangle piece was red which wouldn't match the other colors so I took some alcohol cotton balls swiped the piece changing it from red to silver.  For the filagree pieces on the side that were gold, I did the same thing making them appear more silver.  To pull all of the colors together, I used my Krylon gold leafing pen and colored the metal around the niche box, added a few rhinestones and I considered it finished. 

CCC#26 - Rusted Grunge ATC

This week's CCC Challenge at Studio L3, is Rusted Grunge.  I elected to create an ATC using one of Tim's distressed papers as the background for the slide mount.

RAKS

I mailed off a couple more this afternoon -- two ATCs and one card all to members of OSA.

RAKS and SWAPS

I added a new item to my resolution list this year -- participate more in the on-line groups where I have so many friends and feel a need to stay in touch.  I joined an ATC swap for Mixed Media Trends and a FAN card swap for OSA.  Here are my results:

The requirements for the ATC swap were dry embossing and ribbon.

The above appears lopsided because the charm prevented the card from lying flat.  The image is from Scrolls Work which I stamped in white pigment ink and  used watercolor pencils to color, white gel pen to highlight areas and then overstamped in gold pigment ink.