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| paint over printed papers with coordinating colors. here I used Shimmer Red for the petals, Citrine for the center, Citrine mixed with Tanzanite Pearl for the petals and Shimmer Pearl for that added glitter on the background. |
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| For the piece of paper dolls, I used the same Citrine/Tanzinite Pearl combination. The Tanzinite Pearl by itself for the blue dress and the Tanzinite Pearl mixed with the Enhancer for the deeper blue of the "P." The background was again treated with Shimmer Pearl. |
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| Once dry, the glass tiles were attached with Sakura Crystal Lacquer. Once dry, trim around the glass pieces. |
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| I attached the heart style silver bails with Sakura Crystal Lacquer as well. |
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| Once dry, I attached both pieces to a Silver Plated Bail Chain. I think Samantha will LOVE it! The glittery shimmer of the Mixers is truly her. |
Plain Canvas
Stazon Ink Pad
Metal Shrine
Rusty Elements
Key Hole
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 Step 1: I started with a white blank blank canvas and painted it with *black gesso. *I used gesso because I wanted a matte finish. |  Step 2: Using a mixture of the, copper, Bronze and the pearl green Terri Sproul mixers I painted triangle sections on my canvas using a *plastic throw away brush. *Once the mixer dries it will harden and ruin your brush, it's better to use a cheap throw away brush. |
 Step 3: I used a plastic comb to draw texture into the wet mixture. Use whatever you have around. | Step 3a: Once you've combined the colors by combing through the wet mixture set aside to completely dry. |
 Step 4: Once again paint your mixture onto the dried canvas this time add dots of of the gold jewel effect. |  Step 5: Using the end of a paint brush or stick draw swirls into the wet mixture blending the gold dots and allow to dry completely once again. Step 5A: Once your canvas has dried completely add 1-3 layers of clear 3D Crystal Lacquer over the entire canvas. This will fill in areas and give even more depth to your canvas. |
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 Step 6: Add some layers of washi tape to the sides. |  Step 7: Paint the sides with more of your mixture and a couple of layers of clear then allow it to dry completely. |
 | Step 8: Now that the canvas is dry using a Stazon ink pad swipe it over the top and the sides of the canvas to give the piece a more grungy worn look. |
 Step 9: Draw an x on the backside of your canvas big enough to fit your shrine into. |  Step 10: Cut an x into the canvas using an Xacto knife. |
 Step 11: Fit your shrine into the canvas. |  Step 12: Glue the backside of the shrine, weight it and allow to dry. |
 Step 13: Next cut I cut some complementary Washi paper and glued it inside the shrine. |  Step 14: Using paper clay I created a heart and allowed it to dry. |
 Step 15: I then colored the heart using Copper Kettle Color Mists. |  Step 16: Next fit and adhere your heart inside your shrine. |
 Step 17. add a rusty chain for a hanger. |  Step 18: And add a few rusty embellishments connected to chains so that they hang down from the base of the shrine. |
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| This started with me die-cutting some ATCs from my Tim Holtz Alterations die. I cut them out of 1/16th inch acrylic. I attached and trimmed where necessary Outlines stickers from Starkraft. I did this with a technique for some Holiday ATCs this fall and loved it! I had to update the look with Terri's Mixers |
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| Rather than adding the Mixers to 3D Crystal Lacquer, I picked some colors of the 3D crystal color lacquer to alter. Wait until you see!! |
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| The "green" was a much darker green with the Pearl Green in it and the gold is yellow with Gold Dust in it. The colors are so pretty and intense. I love the pearlescent effects the green takes on with the Mixers. |
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| On the side with the outline sticker, I color in the petals and leaves with the colors mixed. I add just a smidge of the gold to some brown lacquer and paint the centers. For the Dragonfly ATC below I colored on the sticker side with teal colored lacquer with lilac pearl mixer added for the wings. The purple wings used the purple glitter colored lacquer. The bodies of the dragonflies are black with Blue Pearl Mixer--YUMMY. |
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| Then on this butterfly I decided to fill the Blue Pearl mixed in black over the wings of the butterfly. The butterflies body was filled in with black straight up. I really loved the reverse of this one and decided to do my background treatment on what is normally considered the front. Wait until you see!!! |
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| The background is mainly transparent but has spots of shimmer where the interference is. |
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| This one shimmers blue or purple pink depending on how the light hits it. |
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| Where the light areas are on this one, the background has the glitter pink and it sparkles...the spots where the Mixers were splattered into the wet lacquer make the little spots of color...kind of like inclusions in rocks. Very fun!! I hope you enjoyed my ATCs. The transparency and shimmer is just amazing on the acrylic ATCs |
