This is my card for Lisa's fun WT646 challenge which you will find HERE. It's a wide-open one with loads of options and I hope to find time to play along with another technique some time this week...
For this card, I chose to work with Tyvek, painting it with a pearlescent medium and smooshing Perfect Pearls in. When it was dry, I heated it with an iron to distort it - not the ideal job for the hottest day of the year.
Then I had to think what to do with it...mermaids are trendy at the moment and it's years since I made one, so I pulled out my beads. The pattern is from an old Klutz book. Dream is cut with a Serendipity die, using card with double-sided adhesive on it; then I burnished gilding flakes over the adhesive, and added a couple of coats of UTEE.
Because of the little hole in the Tyvek where it had got extra heat, I thought it would be fun to put something behind it, so I die-cut a few gold stars from glitter card and added them. There's metallic stitching on the blue mat layer and also as a sort of weedy effect on the Tyvek panel.
p.s. - there's an older blog post on Tyvek with some step-out photos on my blog HERE.
Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 GMT Views: 566
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Registered: December 4, 2009 Location: Southern Utah's Dixie Posts: 20557
Thu, Jul 27, 2017 @ 4:32 PM
WOW!! You are on a roll with the incredible cards you have made for the WT challenge! This mermaid card is fantabulous!! The bead mermaid , I've never seen anything like it, is beautiful! Just a wonderful mix of mixed media!!
Registered: May 26, 2015 Location: Oregon Posts: 5532
Fri, Jul 28, 2017 @ 1:09 PM
Your description of the many steps involved in this card is a great tribute to your wonderful, creative mind resulting in wow factors. I love the unpredictableness of making backgrounds and Tyvek is certainly one of those that top my list. BRAVO!
You are so talented and I'm sure we havnt even scratched the surface of your talented gifted knowledge. How I wish we lived closer so I'd be your student on a daily bases lol poor you I'd say then if that was to come true lol