Make it Monday #307 - Faux Stained Glass

This week's Make it Monday Technique for Papertrey Ink is Faux Stained Glass presented by Laurie Schmidlin.  I've actually done this one other time but not in quite the same way as this time.

It's the week before Christmas and everyone is so busy, me included.  I wanted to participate but not take too much extra time this week since I have lots of other things going on.  So I wanted to use a few of those extra pieces that I tend to have on my desk along with the Papertrey Products I was using.

I started by die cutting the Cover Plate: Harlequin from Stamper's Select White Cardstock.  Next I cut a piece of Stamper's Select Vellum to go behind this for my "window" glass.  I cut this piece to just a smidgen smaller than 4.25 x 5.5 so that there would be no chance of it showing out the sides. I glued the front panel onto the vellum using a dot of liquid adhesive at each intersection of the lines.  Using Copic Markers in RV25, BG18 and G14, I colored in the diamonds totally at random.  I colored each one going the same direction and just in a single layer of color.  When those dried, I repeated that to get a deeper color.

In Laurie's video, she die cut two fun foam panels with her cover plate to use as the thickness for behind the main panel.  I did try this, but because the design of  the cover plate I chose has very thin lines, Fun Foam just didn't work out.  Therefore, I cut three additional panels of Stamper's Select White Cardstock to make the stack behind the front panel.  If you adhere it directly to the card base, it would not look like stained glass so I carefully glued the three frames, one on top of the other and then attached my front panel to that thick frame using tape runner.  Since the vellum was already glued in place, I didn't think it was necessary to use a liquid adhesive and just used my Kokuyo Dot Runner on top of the stacked frames.  That way, no adhesive showed once I laid the top piece down.  I then attached that panel to a Top Folding Horizontal Card Base. I die cut the Big Basics: Merry Christmas from Gold Foiled Cardstock and used some Holly leaves that I already had stamped and jeweled with Tonic Nuvo Drops in Gloss Carnation Pink.  These Holly Leaves are from the Gina K Designs Merry & Bright Stamp Set and are a bit larger than the Papertrey Ink Enclosed: Bell Holly Leaves which I thought fit better with the larger greeting.  These were stamped in Fresh Asparagus and Dusty Rose.

That finishes my card for today's post.  The supplies I've used are linked below for your convenience (affiliate links may be used at no cost to you).

Copic Marker Apple Green G14 Shop at: SSS	Copic Marker Dog Rose R25 Shop at: SSS	Copic Marker Teal Blue BG 18 Shop at: SSS	Cuttlebug Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS
Gina K Designs Dusty Rose Ink Shop at: SSS | GKD	Gina K Designs Fresh Asparagus Ink Shop at: SSS | GKD	GKD Merry & Bright Stamp Set Shop at: GKD	Kokuyo Long Dot Runner Adhesive Shop at: SSS
Nuvo Crystal Drops - Gloss Carnation Pink Shop at: SSS	PTI - Big Basics: Merry Christmas Shop at: PTI	PTI - Cover Plate: Harlequin Shop at: PTI	PTI Stamper's Select Vellum (#44) Shop at: PTI
PTI Stamper's Select White Cardstock Shop at: PTI	Ranger Multi Medium Matte Shop at: SSS