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Most of the backgrounds are a take off on Mary Jo Mcgraw's "Caught In Crystal" technique. Note that as Brenda Banks shared in a class some time ago, dries clear glue may also be used.
I will quickly explain each background, ask for questions then move on to the next. You will want to be here when we get to the stamped samples for my very cool find!
You may stamp your images before or after you do your backgrounds.
General tip, use a light hand when spreading the Future Floor Finish.
| Future Floor Finish poured in a small puddle then smeared on acetate with drops of adirondack's ginger and stream put on, then brushed with a paint brush. Gently pat crumpled tissue on back and let dry. |
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| Purple blue: Diamond Glaze, half dollar sized, smeared on acetate then added drops of purple and dark blue Memories inks and crumpled tissue. | 2 |
| Memories: poured on Future Floor Finish, spread on acetate, added dots of mango and cherry Memories. Folded acetate and ran hand over to spread. Unfold, add tissue and pat down. | 3 |
| Better: spread Future Floor Finish; add drops of purple, blue and pink Memories. Gently smear. Add Evo's violet dazzler glitter and gold powdered pigment sparingly. Add crumpled tissue. | 4 |
| Memories mango and pink on pre-spread Future Floor Finish. Add violet dazzler (Evo) and gold powdered pearls, then tissue. | 5 |
| Drops of pearl ex mixed with Future Floor Finish in small deli condiment containers. Drop on Future Floor Finish'd acetate then blend. | 6 |
| Colorbox chalks rubbed right on from the pad add Future Floor Finish then smear. | 7 |
| Createx and Future Floor Finish: | 8 |
| Back and front sandwiched between two pieces of acetate and smooshed out with brayer. It is beautiful on both sides! | 9 |
| Using paper towel rather than tissue. Lumieres. | 10 |
| Paper towel back side. Neat texture. | 11 |
| Future Floor Finish very wet with pearl ex sprinkled on in powder form then spread. | 12 |
| Same as 12. | 13 |
| Acrylic paints and Future Floor Finish , yuck, far too matte. | 14 |
| Encore inks over Future Floor Finish then spritzed with alcohol. Gorgeous! | 15 |
| Same as 15. | 16 |
| Memories & Archival inks & Future Floor Finish dtp: | 17 |
| Trias & Future Floor Finish: | 18 |
| With drops of alcohol: | 19 |
| After applying crumpled tissue. | 20 |
| Lyra water color crayons: | 21 |
| Blended with Future Floor Finish | 22 |
| Peerless water colors with Future Floor Finish | 23 |
| Trias black and blue with liquid gold leaf & Future Floor Finish put together then pulled apart. | 24 |
| Same as 24. | 25 |
| Back brayered smooth. | 26 |
| Back with texture. | 27 |
| Same image on white paper(29), pink(20), then blue(32) to show behind the acetate background. This stamped image was embossed. |  49401 Fantasy Garden 2 29 |
| Pink paper |  49401 Fantasy Garden 2 30 |
| Blue paper |  49401 Fantasy Garden 2 31 |
| Gibson girls over Lyra background. |  42161 Gibson Girls Plate 1 32 |
| Celebrate over Memories and Archival ink |  42161 Gibson Girls Plate 1 33 |
| Over Lyra water color. |  42161 Gibson Girls Plate 1 34 |
| On a fake one hundred dollar bill using Memories red and mango. Caption could read, "we moved to Washington for its nut bounty" how about you? |  42120 Flowers Cherries, Plums 35 |
| On some of the background's I chose to brayer the colors so these show cleaning the brayer: 36, 37, and 38. |  36 |
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| First run, second run and last run, spritzing with water in between. |  42301 Vases Plate 1 38 |
| On the Encore background, silver embossed on transparency and colored on the back of the daffodils with sharpie markers and highlighted with white out ink (also on the back). |  42110 Flowers Roses, Pansies, 39 |
| Pansy and word stamps embossed with silver on Tria background. |  42110 Flowers Roses, Pansies, 40 |
| Roses and word stamped & embossed with silver on Tria background. |  42110 Flowers Roses, Pansies, 41 |
| Brilliance and Future Floor Finish, this is gorgeous! |  42304 Asian Plate 1 42 |
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Acrylic and Memories inks with Future Floor Finish. Image printed from Red Castle cd-- Antique Images Eve's Daughters Illustrations With Complete Text |
 Antique Images Eve's Daughters Illustrations With Complete Text 46 |
ACE-PEEL'sNow about that cool find (at least to me)!Remove the acetate after completely dry from the paper background and you will have a surface that is shiny and slick. You can then reuse the acetate! It is the coolest backgrounds! You cannot see it on the monitor but this is as smooth as the best glossy. I did the same technique with several of the pieces. You can use paper or tissue. This works with inks but not with paints. You have to see this to really know what a knock out it is. Especially when you have those neat crumpled texture designs from the paper! |
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| Trias on tissue with the acetate removed. |  50 |
| The acetate removed! |  51 |
| Vase on the front of paper towel/acetate background. Lumieres. |  42301 Vases Plate 1 52 |
| Flora on Memories hot pink and mango. |  49400 Fantasy Garden 1 53 |
| Hot topic on Adirondacks. |  42304 Asian Plate 1 54 |
| Fish on Pearl Ex mixed with Future Floor Finish. |  42360 Pen and Ink--Fish, Cat 55 |
| Lush Leaves: Adirondacks background, copied and played with on the computer for varying color effects. If you get a great background, copy those babies! You can change colors or blur, etc., for multiple use. | 
49401 Fantasy Garden 256 |
| Same as 56. | 
49401 Fantasy Garden 257 |
| Phoenix? or Peacock? on Memories. |  42304 Asian Plate 1 58 |
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