Taylored Expressions: Light of the World

One of the many things that first drew me to Taylored Expressions was their variety of faith-based stamps.  Check out their Spiritual section here.  They have cute flowers and elegant flowers, Christmas and Easter, hope-filled sets and princess sets!!  I love the stained glass set Light of the World.


I thought long and hard about adding a sympathy sentiment due to the soft colors in the stained glass, but I just kept coming back to how I feel when I look at stained glass - I rejoice!!

I embossed the stained glass with a White Pearl embossing powder. To get a very soft background, I used a very watered down blue from a Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor set.  I used a soft brush and swooshed it over the entire piece letting it pool where it wanted to pool.  (I did go back at the end and, using a finer brush, put a slightly less watered down version toward the bottom and around the outer frame - it just felt like it needed to be more grounded.)
Before the first layer dried I took pieces of paper towel and used a corner to pull up most of the blue from the cross and from some of the leaves.  I'm sure I could have painted around them to begin with but it was so much easier to color all over with the blue - and it picks up beautifully with a paper towel.

I really struggle with regular watercolors in small spaces so I pulled out my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker in Olive Green to add some color to the leaves and my Zig Marker in Ochre to add a golden tone to the cross.

I took my pictures outside which is not my norm (mainly because my crafting typically takes place at 5 a.m. before I get ready for work!)  I had to do it this time because the sequins are iridescent and they take on really odd colors when I use my regular photo studio.  This is my favorite photo of the batch. I didn't use it as my main photo because of the shadows but it shows the soft metallic finish of the sentiment which is done with a platinum embossing powder.



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I used White Pearl and a Platinum embossing powder.  The paper is Canson Bristol Smooth which can stand up to the watercoloring.

Light of the World

Label Stacklets 5

Banner Stacklets 1

Embossing Folder - Brick

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