Well, I know the beads made Katherine into a shaker card, but I just loved the colors of those things. Celedon green. Burgundy. So I just had to try this bead thing again. But I was a little more careful with the beads this time. Not quite so many. More artrully arranged -- not puddled in the middle of her face or anything.

Well, the beads still keep the acetate from gluing down well to the background paper but at least this time around the beads are simply sprinkling out from around the edges, not pouring out. Some of them actually seem to have gotten stuck down with the glue.

Would I recommend doing this again. I think not. These beads are just too hard to keep track of, and as far as I can tell, don't stick at all to the laminate adhesive and very poorly to the acrylic glue.

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

For some reason I felt that the Whiskey Creek Sleeping Cat with Mouse stamp needed to be hiding, so I created a green vellum card to tuck the stamped image into.

Materials

• a full sheet of forest green cardstock and two shades of pink paper for layering, plus a sheet of marbelized coppery paper for layering
• overhead projection film with image of Desdemona printed on it
• Crayola Pearlescent Paint, pink
• quarter sheets of glossy white cardstock, three
• Perfect Paste Adhesive
• silk flower petals in shades of pink
• half sheet of light green vellum
• PearlEx in russet and duo red/green
• glass pebble beads in metallic pink
• seed pearl string
• Beadz in greens and pinks
• Bond 527 glue
• Elmers extra strength office gel
• Krylon copper leafing pen
• satin pearl embossing powder
• heat tool for embossing powder
• Colorbox lilac petal point
• Yes glue
• Fiskars stamp edged scissors
• clear detail embossing powder
• Printworks dye ink pads in granite gray and truffle brown
• Radiant Pearls in golden honey and Christmas rose
• PSX pigment ink in mulberry
• Fabrico 6-color ink pad, the Vivid collection
• brass heart charm
• decorative corner punch
• koosh ball
• copper glitter embossing powder
• Duo adhesive

Whiskey Creek Stamps Used

Sleeping Cat with Mouse

Fruits of Summer

Plate 3 backgrounders

Directions:

• Using Crayola Pearlescent pink paint, coat a quarter sheet of coated white card stock with paint and let dry.
• Apply about one to two tablespoons of Perfect Paste Adhesive to the dry painted surface of the pink cardstock. Add a pinch of duo red/blue PearlEx and blend with your fingers or a brush. Sprinkle lightly with Beedz and press the acetate image of Desdomona onto the wet surface. Let dry.
• Trim the acetate to a square and edge with a Krylon copper leafing pen.
• Using a brayer, stamp the Fruits of Summer onto glossy white cardstock with a Printworks truffle brown ink pad and let dry. Trim and using Yes glue, layer onto the the marbelized coppery paper and punch the corners. Place the layered image onto the green background cardstock with Yes glue.
• With Yes glue, layer the acetate image onto a coordinating paper and then onto a second layer of coordinating paper, and finally, onto the full sheet of green cardstock.
• Using a brayer, stamp the Sleeping Cat with Mouse onto glossy white card stock with Printworks granite gray. When dry, cover the stamped image with a very thin layer of Radiant Pearls golden honey, coloring the cat's nose and ears with just a touch of Christmas rose. Cover with detail clear embossing powder and heat until set.
• Trim the Sleeping Cat with Mouse image to the size of the stamp. Cut and fold a piece of sage green vellum a bit more than twice the size of the stamped image. Trim the edge with Fiskars stamp edge scissors. Using a Krylon copper leafing pen, edge the stamp-cut edge with copper.
• With the Whiskey Creek backgrounder image of a child in a circle, stamp the outside of the vellum cover with PSX mulberry ink and emboss with clear detailed powder. Then use a koosh ball and the Kaleidescope six-color Vivid inkpad to stamp the rest of the vellum cover around the cricle image. Emboss with clear detailing powder. Fold the booklet cover and glue the stamped Sleeping Cat with Mouse image inside the cover. Using Yes glue, adhere to the green background cardstock.
• Glue the layered image of Desdemona onto the green background cardstock with Yes glue or Elmer's extra strength office gel. Add the string pearl frame using 527 glue.
• Mix some Perfect Paste Adhesive and russet PearlEx and glue the silk flowers to the green background cardstock, adding a touch of the mixture to create a background for the silk flower petals and washing the silk petals in the mixture as well. When dry, add the glass pebble beads with 527 glue and use cut pearls from the string pearls for centers with 527 glue.
• Using the diamond shaped Whiskey Creek backgrounder stamp from Plate 2, stamp around the wider edges of the collage and emboss with copper embossing powder.
• Using some of the Perfect Paste Adhesive mixed with russet PearlEx, paint the brass heart charm and when dry, glue to the Fruits of Summer stamped image with 527 clue.
• Dribble Duo adhesive around the outside edge of the image of Desdemona and sprinkle with Beedz.
• With the lilac petal point, stamp the tip around the edge of the collage and over the copper backgrounder images to tone them down. Emboss with satin pearl embossing powder and highlight a few of the silk flower petals as well.

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