Carol Quance beaded hanging

Carol is the GD over on the Paper Artsy blog this week and on day one she did a beautiful beaded hanging...you can pop over and see it here.

Now I didn't have any hanging boards left in my stash and I didn't have any fibre paste good start eh? so I had to improvise..

I started off by cutting up some thick grey board and gluing four pieces together..(it's not very straight). I sanded the edges to smooth it out and saw there was a lot of fibers from the grey board on my mat...so I mixed it in with some grunge paste and voila fiber paste!! (well not quite but nearly). I used the diamond stencil down the side as Carol did and then stenciled some wording randomly over the rest of my piece.

I painted it all in honey dew and then started adding layers with haystack. pumpkin soup smoked paprika limelight and hey pesto..

I used part of a stamp from Lynne Perella 008 onto crackly tissue with black archival. when it was dry I painted on the back using snowflake for her face and a mixture of the other colours for the rest of it.

I glued the image to the board and added some lace and gems to the bottom. I stamped a small script stamp randomly using olive archival and then stuck some beaded curtain trim around the base and lightly dusted some olive bronze and copper treasure gold around the edges. I didn't have beads for the top so twisted some green and gold ribbon together and tacked it to the sides..

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