18.5.13

Vintage Mermaid Plaque

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 For todays project the materials I used are:
Wooden Plaque
Sakura Crystal Lacquer
Terri Sproul Shimmer Mixers
White Gesso
Image of choice -
 I colored my image with Copic Markers
Stencils (MS and homemade ones)
Molding Paste
Teflon Craft Sheet
Painters Tape
Embellishments
Background Stamp
StazOn Ink/Ranger Distress Inks/tool
Spellbinders Die/Big Shot
                                                
First thing I did was color my image with my Copic Markers.
Then I prepped my wood plaque with white gesso and let dry.
 I stamped my background stamp with StazOn Ink
so it wouldn't smear or run.

Next I wanted to cut out my image with Spellbinders die
but as you can see my image is too big for the die..



So, I traced around my image with the die where
I wanted the die to cut.


Then I cut (with scissors)  the part of the image that was sticking
out of the traced lines.  I lifted my image over the die
so as to only cut around my image without cutting off the bottom
when I ran it through my Big Shot

After it was cut with my spellbinder die I used
Ranger Distress Ink /w Distress Tool to color the edges of my image.
I prepared a mixture of Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul
Shimmer Mixers making my Lacquer translucent enough to
see my background image on my plaque.
Then I set it aside for a moment while I added some texture.


I decided to add some texture with Molding Paste and MS Stencils.
Here I even added some Shimmer Mixers to the Molding Paste.


Then I added texture with my
homemade stencil (made from packaging)


After it was completely dry I covered the entire
plaque with my colored Crystal Lacquer. (prepared earlier)
making sure I got into all the crevasses.  


With my left over Lacquer I added more
Terri Sproul mixers to make a deeper blue
and dripped the Lacquer onto my craft sheet
and let them dry.


While that was drying I coated my image with
Clear 3D Crystal Lacquer.
I taped down my image on the edges to help prevent curling.


After It was dry I put it all together,
using my drips as embellishments (to resemble air bubbles) 
I used Crystal Lacquer to glue my pieces down.

Here she is on my wall


 

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21 comments:

  1. So many cool technique in this project

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  2. Awesome technique love the mermaid!!! Beautiful!

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  3. Yes, I found many useful ideas thru your project. Thanks for that. Great stamp and color work on your image.

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  4. love it !! I am a bit of mermaid fanatic ! Learned some great techniques too. Thank you !

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  5. AWESOME Peggy! Lots of inspiration with the techniques. THANK YOU for sharing!

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  6. Gorgeous Peggy! Great job! xoxo

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  7. I do love mermaids and will pin it to my Mermaid Board if I can. She is beautiful, you are a fabulous artist and thanks for the materials list!
    I google plus all the blogs I visit also.
    Smiles, Cyndi

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  8. Great idea...beautiful finished piece! Thanks!

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  9. My Peggy O, I love your project, you are so creative!!! WOW... Hugs me..

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  10. Beautiful I love things like this.

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  11. This was beautiful. I have not used that technique before. I need to learn to work with more types of media

    WOWSA so much inspiration, thanks

    chris@iwooten.com

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  12. this piece is jammed packed with techniques and im loving it. you crammed so many things into this small piece it is lovely. very nice job.

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  13. I am kinda nuts about mermaids --I have a collection and I LOVE your mermaid plaque. Really cool techniques too-thanks!

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  14. I love this project - not just the hanging on the wall, but the entire piece! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  15. This is beautiful I love the theme and colors, Anything to do with the beach etc I love Thank you so much for sharing

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  16. Ohhh-la-la....love this ! There are so many beautiful pieces, but so far, this is my favorite :-) Thanks for sharing

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  17. Wow!!!! this is stunning. It look like the water is really water in the background... AMAZING!!! TFS

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  18. Wow! This is gorgeous and very exciting to see it all come together! This may be my favorite so far!

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