Hi there crafty friends! Welcome back to another #TexturalTuesdays. I'm Lisa (aka papergrace in blogville) and I'm super excited to share today's card/project because not only is it fabulously texturey but it's also WAY cool! Double whammy! Yay!! I love when that happens.
This card is featuring two main types of texture: felt and gauze. The star of the show today is the Gauze! You may wonder WHY you would want to craft with gauze, right? Well, actually, it's a real staple in the mixed media world and there are a ton of things you can do with it. (Other than use it for Halloween, of course.) It's wonderful for backgrounds, ribbons, to STAMP with (Yes!!), and, as I'm going to show you today, to die-cut.
Select a large enough piece of gauze that you can double or even triple and it won't be too thick.
My gauze was fairly small, roughly 12" in length, and then it was coated with a thin layer of Gel Medium using a Silicone brush. It's kind of important to do this all on some kind of non-stick surface. I am not patient so I gently dried mine with a heat tool -- VERY GENTLY!! This product is thin, so you do need to be careful. If you're patient? Let it dry overnight. It should be nice and stiff, but still pliable.
See? Not standing straight up, but still stiff. ⇓
I folded my gauze piece in half and die-cut a few flower pieces from it. I also die cut some flowers from felt for more lovely texture.
All the flowers were assembled in the same way using Ranger Multi Medium Matte to adhere them together.
I trimmed some patterned paper and added a teeny tiny little strip of paper along the side (which I adhered with the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® E-Z Runner® Micro) which is so perfect for the itty bitty pieces of paper!
Next, to adhere another piece of gauze (yes...MORE GAUZE!!) I used some extra strong adhesive to the back of the patterned paper panel (say that 3 times fast) and applied the gauze. The remaining portion that was left un-adhered, is then adhered to the base card using a light coat of Gel Medium.
Once the last piece of gauze is applied then all you have left is to adhere the flowers, embellish, and add a sentiment, if you desire. I decided to use the stunning sentiment from the Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies, Many Thanks by Julie Ebersole. I loooooove these scripty dies so much! I cut it out of some fun foam to give it a little loft and dimension and adhered it the Ranger Multi Medium Matte, once again.
Close-up of the sentiment:
And a close-up of the flowers!
A few things to note about using gauze to make your flowers with the Gel Medium: you can add mica powders to your Gel Medium to tint the color of your flower, so that they're not always white. Micas come in a TON of colors so mix away! And the petals are very pliable which means they're very easy to shape.
I hope that you'll think about using Gauze in your next project. Put it on your wish list! :)
