Welcome Carol Quance #1 Beaded Hanging Board ....

                                                                                                      

To be honest I often don't have any idea what I’m going to make when I start. I knew I wanted to make a hanging so I started by pulling out the hanging board from my stash and then started to look at my PaperArtsy stamps to see what would fit well on to the board. 

Next up was colour scheme and as I hadn’t yet tried out my "mauve" Fresco shades it was a good opportunity to try them out. 

 I painted the Hanging Board with Pansy to start as it’s an opaque colour and gives good coverage.

 I chose the long stamp on the LP09 plate which pretty much exactly fitted the length of the board and left room for some extra embellishment down the other edge.

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I wasn’t sure how my image would look on the tissue wrap I used – especially as it was very screwed up as you can see (!) I tried a couple of different inks and decide to use Versafine Onyx Black in the end as it produced the most crisp image. (the one on the right).

Versafine can take a while to dry as it is slightly oily so you can speed it along with a heat gun.  Once this was dry I painted it mainly on the back. Leandra has some very good YouTube videos which explain how to paint with the Fresco Paints.  

The opaque colours work well as a background on the back of tissue to make the image look more solid. I used Nougat for the face with the help of Moonlight and Pansy to add to continuity of the colour theme. This was put aside to dry. 

To fill the blank space beside the picture, I decided to add some stencilling using Golden Fibre Paste which gives a good texture. I also added some stencilling up each side edge to match.

Whilst the fibre paste was trying, I had a rummage and came up with this bead edging which fitted with the colour scheme and I thought would make a good edging.  The trim was too wide so I very carefully glued it in half with some fabric glue.

I then carefully attached the tissue to the hanging board with Ranger Glossy Accents smoothing out any creases as I went.

To seal the edges of the picture I painted over a light coating of Golden Polymer medium which as you can see gives off a light sheen.

      The whole piece looked a bit flat so to start adding some highlighting, I edged the whole frame with black paint and then carefully rubbed some IndigoTreasure Gold across the top of the stencilled diamonds.

                                                  

To keep up the theme, I removed the string hanging (but saved it in my stash for later!) and decided to add a bead hanging. I used a mattress needle to carefully thread some invisible sewing thread through the holes used by the string and very carefully threaded on some beads cut from the edging.  This was VERY fiddly even for me who loves fiddly lol.

Still need more pop so I carefully tapped on some Gold LiquidLeaf.  This is gorgeous but needs careful handling – less is more!

And finally the finished piece.

 

Leandra Says: Ohhh it all works so well together. The bead trim is the perfect colour combo too....or should that be the other way wrong ... that you perfectly matched your frescos, treasure gold and Liquid leaf to the beads! Love it, that fibre paste is so dimensional too. Thankyou!

Gillian Says:Love this beaded hanging board Carol, I'm not normally a "purple" person but these colours together look great along with the textured areas.

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