A very quick follow up after yesterday's marathon.

You might have seen the earlier stages of this piece on the table at Hazel Edwards' lovely Groovi classes in yesterday's blog.

Here, you can see a further development, more perforating and snipping done, and a lot more still to be done.  The first stage of perforation round the outer border has been done, but now the embossing of the design is finished, every single hole must be re-embossed to give me good holes for cutting.

I followed my own rules of re-perforating a small section and snipping it before moving on.  That ensures the holes do not have time to close up again as the parchment relaxes.

This is the completed piece with all holes and snipping completely.  The dragonflies are double layered and were snipped after perforating with the two needle split tool.  This tool was supposed to produce a picot like edge, but is nowhere near as good as using a two needle tool and snipping.  If you push it right down, it roughly cuts the parchment - not very tidy.

However, because the needles on the two needle split are closer than the two needle fine, it can be used to perforate round tiny items like the dragonflies.  If you only perforate VERY shallowly, and then use the one needle fine to open up the holes a little, it works well.

I coloured this piece with the Perga Liners, sharpened to wicked points, which enabled me to colour on the front and then I added extra colour with the pens on the back.  That enabled me to get the depth of colour I wanted but still keeping it fairly subtle and soft.

Thank you, Hazel, for lovely classes, perfectly designed to suit all levels of experience.  Looking forward to the next one.