Constance from Shakespeare's King John looked good with my favorite shade of green, but we had another one of those "there's never a mistake in stamping, only a creative opportunity" moments here.

I like to crimp paper and running metallic embroidery thread along the gullies in straight lines, leaving the ends dangling from top to bottom. No, I can't tell you why I find this so appealing.

Gluing the thread into the gullies is a pain. You have to hold the metallic thread taught until the glue dries or it will twist and your lovely straight line becomes a snake. And anyway, I always managed to get too much Bond 527 in places and wound up with shiny welts here and there.

So, we're doing acetate and cold laminate here. Why not just press the parallel threads of gold into the sticky side of cold laminate? Seemed like a winner to me. But there were no longer any gullies to help me keep the lines straight.

And the Pearl Ex didn't stick very well to the cold laminate so I couldn't get the color just right. When I added enough Perfect Paste Adhesive to hold the PearlEx, the threades started to loosen from the laminate. As you can see, feathers cover a multitude of sins.

Katerhine was created from the image printed on overhead acetate, the same type I use in printing the Whiskey Creek Plate Sampler.

Materials

• half a sheet of gray-green cardstock, folded to make a 4.25 inch x 5.5 inch card and a quarter of a sheet of sage green cardstock for layering
• overhead projection film with image of Constance printed on it
• celery green mulberry paper with gold and white threading
• Yes glue
• metallic gold embroidery thread
• strip of cold laminate 3/4 inches by 5 inches
• PearlEx in duo green/yellow and antique silver
• green feathers
• two decorative celery green teardrop beads
• celery green seed beeds
• Bond 527 glue
• Craf-T Mini-metallic Rub-ons in colonial
• Pilot gold leafing pen

Directions:

• Glue the green mulberry paper to the back of the image of Constance with Yes glue. When dry, cut the mulberry paper even with the edge of the acetate image.
• With the Yes glue, paste the acetate image to the sage green cardstock and trim, leaving 1/16 of an inch of the sage paper exposed. Glue the layered image to the gray-green card close to the right edge, leaving about 3/4 of an inch of the card exposed on the left side.
• Trim the cold laminate to fit the channel on the left edge of the card. Cut three pieces of metallic gold embroidery thread about ten inches long. Peel off the paper backing, and apply three strips of embroidery thread to the sticky side of the laminate, evenly spacing the threads apart, leaving a few inches extending at each end. Keep the threads taut. Use a drop of Bond 527 at the cut edge of the laminate to secure the gold threads
• Glue the laminate, sticky side up, to the left channel of the card with Yes glue. Dust the sticky surface of the cold laminate with PearlEx in duo green/yellow and antique silver, being careful not to jar or move the gold threads. If the color isn't quite right, adjust it by applying matallic rub-ons to the face-up sticky side of the laminate. Be careful not to jar the metallic threads as you do this.
• No matter what I did, I couldn't get the color of the cold laminate strip to blend the way I wanted it to with the card stock and image. I pulled out the green feathers from the $2 hat I got at the antique mall and glued one to each edge of the card where the gold threads extended dangling over the card.
• Fold the gold threads back toward the center of the card at the card edge and glue decorative beads to the folded edge of the metallic threads. Highlight the cutwork in the beads with gold metallic rub-ons.
• Finish the edge of the metallic threads by dipping them into Bond 527 and then into green seed beads.
• Finish the edge of the card with a gold Pilot leafing pen.

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