Lydia's Twist
Look at this great album by Lydia, one of talented MDW Design Team Members, her use of artisitc materials impresses me grealy... beautiful mini book Lydia!
This is what she did...
Painted chipboard with a mixture of white acrylic paint, gloss gel medium, and fine silver glitter. Let it dry and adhered a piece of patterned paper with gloss gel and painted over it with the same paint mixture further thinned out with more gloss gel medium. Added lime acrylic paint to the mix and coated some bubble wrap and pressed the chipboard on top of it. Stamped butterfly, painted chipboard letters with silver acrylic paint and adhered. The 2nd "B" was not painted and already had the paper on it. Brushed over the letters and the area around the letters with gel medium. Sprinkled on a heavy coating of UTEE, tapped off excess. Heated/melted with heat gun. Maybe because I used gel medium, the UTEE was initially very bumpy and grainy and I could rub it off, so I heated it again and it melted more--smooth but still a bumpy texture which I like and definitely can't be rubbed off now! :D
Check out Casey's take on this technique here... her work keeps me wanting to take scrapbook art to a new level.
This is what she did...
Instead of using naked chipboard, as in Rebecca's example, I used covered chipboard letters and painted them. When I was embossing, I overheated the powder in an attempt to get more bubbles (I wanted that really textured look). Unfortunately, the color from the letters bled through a little. A decided to ink over the whole square with marigold distress ink, and overall, it came out pretty well. I am definitely going to play with this technique again, but with naked chipboard!
There has also been some great work from a few other scrapbook artisit out there...
Check out Kelli's work here...
Great job ladies...
