English Rose Collage

Good morning everyone!  I hope your week has been off to a wonderful start.  I had a fun play yesterday with the new dies and pulled out some of my pan pastels and got busy.

This gorgeous die is called English Rose collage and I love the versatility of this one.  This die is meant to be a "negative" cut in the paper instead of a positive one.  I first colored up the front panel with blue, yellow and white pan pastels and blended them together.  The layering cardstock was also colored with yellow and light blue pan pastels to create more of a lime color.

It's hard to see in the photos, but I spritz both panels with Ranger buttercup Mica Spray (previously known as perfect pearls).  I stamped a sentiment and then added some flat backed glass beads for the flower centers.

I adhered with foam dots to give some dimension on the card. 

While I had all of my stuff out and had already made a mess, I just continued playing to make a second card.

This time I used the English Rose Collage die cut as a stencil.  I place the "stencil" over top of my mixed media paper and used pan pastels to create different colors throughout the stencil.  I then used translucent paste (matte) over top of the stencil and pan pastels to create dimension but also to seal the pan pastels.  The paste in the pictures isn't completely dry, but it was still workable to put on a card.  When completely dry, the milkiness of the paste will disappear.

I spritz the panel with prima mica sprays for some glimmer and a touch of color.  I think next time I do this technique, I will spritz the paper first to have a more even coverage of the color and then do the pan pastels and paste with the stencil.

That's it for me today.  I hope the rest of your week is wonderfully creative and thanks for stopping by for a visit.

English Rose Collage