ArtGlitterBlog: Mosaic Swirl Card

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Mosaic Swirl Card

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This swirled design from Dreamweaver Stencils is so fun and makes such an interesting pattern in glitter. My original plan was to use it as a background, but when I was done with it, I couldn't bear to cover it up, so it became the focal for the card.
For this card I used: Art Glitter (of course!) - Ultra Fine Pearlescent - #179 - Tang, Ultra Fine Transparent Neon - #241- Fresh Lime and #238 - Barbie's, and Ultra Fine Opaque - #56 Pumpkin.

And Dreamweaver Stencil - #901 - Mosaic Swirls

After soaping the backside of my stencil and securing it to the sticky paper, I began with the Tang glitter. I very small amounts on my spoon and spread then somewhat randomly following the pattern of the swirl. I didn't want to completely cover the individual squares because I wanted my second color to share the spaces. I then added the Fresh Lime - without shaking off the Tang first. The Fresh lime went only into the round swirls - not the "background" sections. At this point I very carefully, but quickly flipped the stencil over and tapping onto a clean piece of card stock to remover the excess glitter. If you do this quick enough, the green won't "bleed" into the background areas. (not too much anyway) Since the excess glitter is a mix of Tang and Fresh Lime, I put it into its own container to use for a future project. I then came back and filled in the remaining background sections with Barbie's pink glitter. After tapping off the excess pink glitter, I removed the stencil from the sticky paper. Ta-da.....

Now, the final glittering step - I poured the Pumpkin glitter over the exposed sticky paper. I really wasn't sure how the copper colored Pumpkin was going to look with these bright neon colors, but I was really happy with the results. That is the fun part of playing with these glitters....you never know how its going to turn out until you try it!

To finish the card I added a copper and gold ribbon and a copper bow. I then attached it to lime and rust colored card stock.

Be sure to visit my blog for more double glittered fun! Today's blog features this same stencil but a totally different application!!

http://kc-distractedbyshiny.blogspot.com/;

Thanks for checking out my project!