'Balcony View' Card from Imagination Craft's 'Masquerade' Collection.

 'Hello Lovelies,

Hope you have all enjoyed a peaceful relaxing weekend.    Tonight I have another of my cards, which was made for the Create & Craft T.V. shows on the 26th. Nov. 2020,  using Imagination Craft's beautiful 'Masquerade Collection.'

Take a 7" square of white card and lay the rice paper with the balcony on it, onto the white card and using a pencil , lightly mark where the edge of the cut  away rice paper is.   (This part of the rice paper was left- over from cutting out the mirror,  when I made my previous card  'Through the looking glass,'  I quite liked the shape of the edge, so decided to use it on this card).  

 

Next colour the section on the left, which will be showing, once the rice paper is fixed to the right-hand side,   using the Taffy, Purple and the Fuchsia Cadence Hybrid Acrylic paints.   Then lay the background design from the stencil on top of the painted card and dab  the ultramarine paint through the design, then go over the top with a little more Taffy, to tone down the colour a little.

 

Using the decoupage glue, fix the rice paper to this piece of card but not covering over the paint on the left side of the card.

Next lay the fireworks part of the stencil, including a few musical notes, to the left of the balcony and spread the black structure paste over the design using a metal spatula.   Remove the stencil and leave to dry. 

 

In the meanwhile, using the small feather,  small mask and handle and the harlequin dies from the collection, die cut them from some black card. 

  

 

Colour these with the rich gold finger wax

                 

Re-position the stencil over the firework images and using a stencil brush, stipple the rich gold metallic paint over the black images, adding a little wine paint in the centre of the images.   Remove the stencil.

Matt and layer this card onto a slightly larger piece of wine coloured card and then onto the 8" ivory base card.   

Fix the mask and handle in position in the bottom right corner using sticky foam pads.

The harlequin diamonds to the top right corner, again using sticky foam pads.

Glue the feather to the bottom left.

Phew lol!! nearly there if you're still with me lol!...... .10 out of 10  if you still are ha! ha!   The only thing left to do is to add a large red sequin to the centres of both fireworks, finishing off by adding a dot of the rich gold metallic paint to the sequin centres.

Thank you all for bearing with me, thankfully more photos than text lol!   Thank you also for your comments and visits to my last blog post,    Please take care and stay safe.   I will be back quite soon with another card to share with you.

                                                                    Love and rainbows,

                                                                    Hugs   Jennifer xx.