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It has been a great weekend for me, hope it's the same for you too :) Managed to alternate my house work with crafty moments and overall it was very relaxing. I guess that explains the sudden inspiration I had when I opened my eyes this morning. I had originally wanted to sleep in, and perhaps wake up in time for lunch, but my brain just wouldn't let me. Leaving my DH still snoring in bed, I climbed out and went straight to my crafting table.

And then I took this out.

What is it, you ask? It's actually an old piece of glass pane that I refuse to throw away. And I don't know why I felt like doing alterations today and this was the first thing that came to mind. Using my glass cutter, I cut it into postcard size to work with.

I really like it that the glass has 2 sides with different texture, smooth on one side (I made this the front) and grainy (and this as the back) on the other. Using the Hero Arts open flower and versamark ink, I stamped it on the smooth side, and covered it with black embossing powder. I know glass can get quite hot, so I placed it on a mini easel before using the heat gun. Even at this stage I like my project already.

Then I stamped the same flower on a piece of blue tissue paper and filled it in with Copic markers. On a few sheets of torn yellow and green tissue paper, I stamped the HA solid flower with fluid chalk after aligning them to fit the glass (hope I'm making some sense here).

On the opposite side of the glass, i.e. the grainy side without heat embossing, I covered it with Serviettenlack (you could probably use Modpodge/Claudine Hellmuth multi medium, but I only have this). I placed the stamped yellow/green tissue paper on it, and top up with more Serviettenlack. After that I layered the blue tissue paper at a different position so that it could be seen from the front. And because the glass is about 5mm thick, the front embossed flower looked like it was raised. This is how the glass look like after it was dry.

At that point, my DH woke up, just in time for lunch, and I showed him what I did. Of course, I was obviously fishing for compliments then (because I really liked it), but instead he told me the colours were a bit dull. Speak of anticlimax, LOL. I pretended not to hear and suggested we go out for lunch...hehe..

When we got back, it dawned to me that I could add some bright coloured words to compliment the "dullness". And indeed it does look much better! I showed to my DH again, and this time he only smiled :) I'll take that as a thumbs-up, LOL. I also painted the sides (not visible in the photo) with gold plaka paint so that it would look more "finished". I'm planning to put this in my living room.

Supplies: Glass window pane, Hero Arts Open flower, Hero Arts Solid flower, Thickers, Blue, Green and Yellow tissue paper, Kaiser pearls, Versamark ink, Fluid Chalk, Memento Tuxedo black ink, Pelikan Gold plaka paint, Copic markers, Pelikan Serviettenlack

Also I tried adding a butterfly, but I'm not sure if I like it there. What do you think? Should I remove it?

I'm linking this to Hero Arts May Challenge - Fabulous Flowers and Dutch Dare Card Challenges #113 - Altered Art

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