For Lydia;s Just Add Patience MIXed media challenge. Out of one full sheet of card cut into quarters, I got less than an 8th of a sheet with the wonderful speckled distressed look I had loved in her samples. Not much - but enough to make a background in a polaroid die. Talk about patience - the little UFO was a lot of work, I stamped it on white card and embossed with silver. But I wanted the background to show through the dome, so I cut out the interior, and stamped my alien on vellum and laid it behind to see how it looked. Now the alien was see-through too, so I had to stamp him on white card, colour him again and use the Xyron X to stick him behind the vellum. And then I thought the dome needed "glass" to look right, so I added a layer of thin acetate between the UFO and the vellum layer.
Found a background in my box and added a stencil in white; it's from Clarity, and I think it's called Galaxy. Added a sentiment and some stars from Lawn Fawn on the polaroid frame, added some Stickles to the stars for Toni's WT challenge, spattered the whole background with SN clear glitter pen and edged ith with black pen. After adding it to the white base this morning I remembered I had some star sequins in my Christmas box, so I added a few of those in and popped the polaroid up on foam tape.
There's a close-up of the UFO showing better detail on my post in the challenge thread linked at the top.
Date: Saturday, August 18, 2018 GMT Views: 953
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Registered: January 20, 2016 Location: Freetown, Massachusetts Posts: 31458
Sat, Aug 18, 2018 @ 3:06 AM
It was totally worth all the effort. It's awesome! I love anything in a Polaroid frame and this little alien is too fun! Love that background you chose to go behind it. It looks fabulous and it's so the type of thing I wouldn't even think to pair--I get too matchy for my own liking
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Sat, Aug 18, 2018 @ 3:32 AM
your card really looks stellar!! I love the polaroid background!! looks like the alien comes from space to Earth!! and the other bg is Scientist too!!
I hope the weather will be better in 2 weeks!!
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Sat, Aug 18, 2018 @ 5:54 AM
Love love love this Sabrina. Your background turned out fantastic and it's perfectly paired with that little creature from space. Nicely done my friend.
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Sat, Aug 18, 2018 @ 3:01 PM
It's amazing how a project seems to morph into a lot of work when it seemed so simple in the beginning! But oh how worth it was this little alien! I love the polaroid look to the image. It's like selfies in space! That BG really turned out fabulous. I'm off to mix mine up now to let it sit!
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Registered: June 27, 2012 Location: Washington Posts: 25246
Tue, Aug 21, 2018 @ 2:52 AM
Love your stash background with its white stencil creating those ineresting circles and large white polka dots! Your Polaroid picture galaxy oxidized shaving cream background is truly interesting and perfect for your little space guy. I can read that a lot of work went into this "picture!" It was no quick Polaroid snapshot!
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