Friday/Saturday - Finishing off and something new

Some of you may have seen my post of Groovi Worldwide last week, when I showed my mishaps with one piece of parchment.  It all started when I went over to Hazel Edwards' class at her home last Saturday.  She had done some lovely samples to give us ideas, using the Silent Night plate as a base.  I was there all day so had plenty of time to play.

The first card went fine, although, in retrospect, I should have strengthened the colour.  It is a little on the pales side, but I can adjust that by adding some colour on the front of the church.

Then after lunch, I started on my second card and it all went to pieces.  Too much chat and not enough concentration, which led to elementary mistakes.

I embossed the border, then decided to do the perforation of the grid.  Mistake One - I forgot to turn it over so that meant that the embossed border ended up as de-bossed.  OK, I can accept that, not too much of a disaster until I started on the centre panel.  Mistake Two - The words were now backwards.  Right, stop, and have engage brain, if I can find it!

I was detemined not to throw anything away and to use every bit.  So I picot cut the centre panel out and then tidied up the inside of the frame.  

Then I created a new border for the panel.  It has not shown up too well on this photo.  I put a coloured piece behind the centre panel but that just has not been picked up on this scan..  a

Anyway, that is the centre panel saved with a new border.  That left the original border to be used on this next card.  I used a piece of Shenandoah in green at the back of the whole thing.  I had already embossed the border plate onto the green parchment, which threw up the border lines more strongly.

 I had intended to use my rubber to remove colour from the green behind the church and the trees, but, in the end, I decided I did not need to do that.  With the green on the trees, i was really just strengthening the existing colour.  and the brownish hue of the building seemed to come through quite well.  The ground in the front is just embossed with tiny dots from the fine grid.  Then the whole thing was mounted on an a piece of Shenandoah paper.  I chose to use the bright side as it seemed to throw up varied lights in the sky.  All my colouring on this was done from the back with extra in some places on the front.

Then I decided I was in the mood to play a bit more, so I did another, using two different pieces of parchment.   Again, I embossed the border on both pieces of parchment.  This time the border gridwork and the church were on the normal white parchment, with the background picot cut out.  By laying it over the blue Shenandoah parchment, I was able to place the moon and the stars just where I wanted them.  Fortunately, the white embossing on the top of he church was strong enough to be able to place very tiny dots of Perga Glue to stop it moving and curling.

A big thank you must go to Hazel for running such a lovely class, and for a very tasty lunch, not forgetting all the coffees made by Steve to keep us going.