Beautiful World - Glass

Welcome to the December Beautiful World Tour, brought to you by Flourishes! Each month the team presents a themed blog hop, hosted by our group of international designers... we are literally spread out all over the globe!  At the heart of our projects is the idea of truly showcasing beauty in card making – whether it be in a beautifully colored image, a fabulous way to incorporate an embellishment or a new twist on a card layout.

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This month we've been challenged to showcase the beauty of glass. I thought of the canning jar in the Garden Picks set, and created a little scene with some simple masking. I stamped the center jar first, then masked it and stamped the jar again on either side. After stamping, I removed the mask, and stamped a second impression in the same place without reinking. I stamped the flowers in the center jar, then masked those flowers to stamp bouquets in the other jars, and added a few blooms behind the first bouquet as well.

I colored my scene in with Polychromos oil based pencils - it has been a while since I pulled these out and it was fun to color with sharp-pointed pencils after working with brushes and brush markers for so long. I added layer after layer of color until I got the depth of shading that I wanted.

The jars are painted with a thin layer of pearlescent white paint, and highlighted with white acrylic paint. I wanted that highlight to really stand out. Here's an angled view so you can see the shine on that pearlescent paint...

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