Lady Northumberland from Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part 2, has a dark dress and dark hair, so I tried to figure out a way to soften the darkness.

I decided to try Radiant Pearls on the acetate, realizing I would have to emboss the Radiant Pearls to get them dry on a non-absorbant surface like acetate. I have a basic set of primary colors in Radiant Pearls (Christmas Rose, Sapphire on Ice, Frosty Pine, Miners Nugget, Oyster Shell, and Golden White) and mix whatever shade I need. Yes, I'm Radiant-Pearl deprived, but since I am never able to follow directions to the letter, mixing my own shades seems to fit my work habits.

Besides playing with acetate, embossing is one of my favorite stamping techniques. I find myself using my clear detail embossing powder with many of my cards and collages -- mostly because I use glossy cardstock so much!

I bought an old hat an an antique mall because it was one of those pillbox styles popular in the late 40s and 50s, completely covered with feathers. And it cost $2. Most of the feathers were dyed green, golden yellow, and taupe, with a few strands of white throughout.

As I pulled the hat apart to separate the feathers from the moth-eaten felt they had been glued to, I discovered the white clusters were strands of ostrich feathers which had beed taped together into bunches. As I unwound the disintegrating tape, I was delighted to find the separate wisps of ostrich feather absolutely magical. They make wonderful additions to hanks of fibers!

Lady Northumberlad 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 burgandy cardstock, folded to make a 4.25 inch x 5.5 inch card and a quarter of a sheet of pale pink cardstock for layering
• decorative corner punch and the double slit corner punch
• overhead projection film with image of Lady Northumberland printed on it
• Radiant Pearls
• Winsor and Newton ink, gold
• Yes glue
• fibers in burgundies, golds, greens, and white
• Bond 527 glue
• Fiskars scissors in seagull pattern
• light green seed beads
• gold glitter glue
• gold jewelry pieces
• Pilot gold leafing pen

Directions:

• I chose a light pink card stock for layering to give a skin tone to Lady Northumberland and provide some lightening effect to the dark dress she was wearing.
• I painted the image with Radiant Pearls, mixing the green of the background and the reverse side of her velvet cape from my six-pack of colors. I also mixed the burgundy color for her cape and the very light pink for her skin tone and applied that to her face and hands, with a slightly darker pink to highlight her cheeks and an even darker pink for her lips.
• When I finished painting the image with Radiant Pearls, I embossed it with clear detail embossing powder.
• I painted the gold edge of Lady Northumberland's robe and her cuffs with gold Winsor and Newton ink, and touched up her headband with traces of gold ink.
• Once the image was cool and dry, I trimmed the edge of the acetate with the Fiskar seagull scissors. I then trimmed the pink cardstock for layering slightly larger with the same scissors, matching the cut edges. I used Yes glue and glued the acetate to the pink cardstock.
• While the layer of acetate and card stock dried, I cut the right-hand edges of the folded burgunday cardstock with the decorative corner cutter and the left edge with the double-slit paper punch.
• Glue the layered acetate image and pink card stock to the folded burgandy card.
• I gathered together burgundy fibers, gold GMC embroidery thread, and a small seed pearl string. I cut lengths of all these fibers long enough to double over and thread through the double slit in the upper right hand corner. Once positioned, I glued them in place with Bond 527 glue.
• Using the 527 glue, I attached strands of white ostrich feathers to the hank of fiber where it threaded through the double slit.
• Then I topped off the folded edge of the fibers and feathers with jewelry elements and glued light green seed beads to the cut corners of the card and to the top jewelry element.
• I finished off the card by applying small dots of glitter glue to the points of the cut edge of the pink layer of card stock and outlining the card edge with a Pilot gold leafing pen.

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