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Marbleized Background 
By
Brenda Harmless
Rubber Roadsters
Advanced Stamping Team Designer
These marbleized
backgrounds are rich in color and have a glossy textured looking finish. In my
artwork sample, I used just one color of stained glass spray to create the
background, but the colors will not muddy if you choose to experiment with
several colors together.
Supplies:
Give Thanks
Stamp Set (Close To My Heart)
New England Ivy stamp pad
(Close To My Heart)
Desert Sand, New England Ivy
and Goldrush Cardstocks (Close To My Heart)
Pewter My Accents (Close To My
Heart)
Tag
Skeleton Leaves (Stampin Up!)
Green Stained Glass Spray (Krylon)
Mono-Adhesive (Tombow)
Rotary Paper Cutter (Fiskars
12)
Piercing Tool (Close To My
Heart)
Disposable Tin cake pan
Newspaper
Rubber Gloves
Instructions:
- Cut Desert Sand
cardstock to 8½ x 5½ and fold in half to create 4Ό x 5½ card.
- Cut New England Ivy
cardstock to 4 x 5Ό; center and adhere to front of Desert Sand card.
- Cut Goldrush
cardstock to 6 x 6.
- Fill disposable tin
cake pan with water to about 2. In a well ventilated area, spray Krylon
Stained Glass Spray onto water. Wait a few seconds until paint starts
separating and forming a pattern. If desired, you can drag a toothpick
through the paint to create different patterns. With rubber gloves on, press
the 6 x 6 piece of Goldrush cardstock into the paint. Remove and place on
newspaper to dry. Once dry, you can place the paper underneath a heavy book
for several hours to flatten. Cut to 3-3/8 x 5.
- Cut New England Ivy
cardstock to 2Ό x 4½. Angle cut corners on top end to create tag. Attach
pewter eyelet to top of tag. Attach skeleton leaves to front of tag with mono
adhesive; refer to photo for placement. Adhere tag to marbleized piece.
- Cut Desert Sand
cardstock to 2Ό x 3½. Stamp verse on front. Hand tear top & bottom.
Distress edges by sponging with New England Ivy ink. Adhere to bottom section
of tag. Pierce side edges with piercing tool and attach pewter brads; refer
to photo for placement.
- Attach completed
marbleized piece to front of card.
Tips: The stained glass
paint will gel fairly quickly in the water. When it does you can use a
toothpick to collect the paint from the top of the water and discard. (It will
pull off the water in a sheet.) You can also use the same pan of water for a
different color, just wait about 10 minutes, remove the paint and spray a new
color into your pan!
The stained glass spray
also makes great colored transparencies! Use them as colored windows on cards
or die cut them for alpha letters to use on cards or scrapbook layouts!
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