Marbled Ornament

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! My card today was one of a series of experiments I tried using this wonderful ornament image. Yesterday's tag card was another & done almost the same way. For this version, I stamped the ornament on water color paper then took a gold gel pen and drew squiggly lines across it to imitate marbling. Then I wet areas of the ornament. From experience I knew the water would make the gold gel pen run & that's what I wanted. I added reds & bright pinks on one side then dried it w/ a heat gun. Then I did the yellows, blue & greens on the other side & dried it. The gold from the gel pen added a wonderful little bit of gold glitter across the ornament. I fussy cut it then covered it w/ clear embossing powder & heated it. I did this twice so it's really glossy.

The red, lime & gold pieces were all scraps that I either embossed, die cut or used as is. The little reddish drops are some I made using another ornament experiment. I used 3 or 4 coats of embossing powder then heated it & tilted it until the melted ep dripped onto a craft sheet. They formed these perfect little round "dew drops" so I glued them on as berries & embellishments. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs- Simple Ornament, Christmas Especially Greeting

paper: water color, lime, red, grass green, gold

ink: Versafine onyx, Versamark

accessories: Peerless water colors, gold gel pen, clear embossing powder, baker's twine, pine branch corners embossing folder (Darice), holly die (Sizzix), Spellbinders labels 16 die, stitched rectangles die, paper crimper

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