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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