{"id":17619,"date":"2014-09-22T19:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=17619"},"modified":"2014-09-28T12:41:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T16:41:52","slug":"etched-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=17619","title":{"rendered":"Etched Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sketched-Leaves-04621.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17620\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sketched-Leaves-04621.jpg\" alt=\"Sketched Leaves 04621\" width=\"524\" height=\"447\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/general-stamping-talk-f17\/favorites-week-ending-9-28-2014-a-t592456.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9523 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Weekly-Favorite.gif\" alt=\"Weekly-Favorite\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Today&#8217;s Technique Challenge on Splitcoast (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/try-new-technique-f44\/tlc500-%7E-stamp-etching-little-sparkle-%7E-%7B09-22-2014%7D-t592243.html\" target=\"_blank\">TLC500<\/a><\/strong>) is based on Lydia&#8217;s tutorial found <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/resources\/tutorials\/stampetching\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>. And I admit, I&#8217;ve been wanting to try it. I love the way the flower looks after Lydia was finished and the hard part was not recreating the exact same thing she did, lol. So I purposely hunted for different images&#8230;maybe a bit ambitious to use so many leaves, though. It took me quite a while to &#8220;etch&#8221; them all. Then I wanted to color them&#8230;but I didn&#8217;t want to cover up all those etched lines so I masked them, placed a piece of drywall mesh on top to use as a stencil and sponged in some background color.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sketched-Leaves-cu-04620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17621\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sketched-Leaves-cu-04620.jpg\" alt=\"Sketched Leaves cu 04620\" width=\"520\" height=\"393\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>After adding the greeting, I also added a frame by using a ruler and a black pen and a hint of border color with a water brush and the rusty hinge distress ink and some stickles on the oak leaf\/acorn for the &#8220;sparkle&#8221; part of challenge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Thanks so much for stopping by!<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Julie2-sig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12715\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Julie2-sig.png\" alt=\"Julie2 sig\" width=\"134\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I&#8217;m also entering this in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsaysstampblog.com\/mondaychallenge\/?p=1920\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Says Stamp Mon Challenge &#8230;Stamps &amp; Stencils.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Supplies:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody id=\"collapseobj_photoinfo\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><strong>Stamps:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/drsdesigns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DRS Designs-\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsdesigns.com\/medium-silhouette-leaf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Med. Silhouette Leaf<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsdesigns.com\/open-leaf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Leaf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsdesigns.com\/fall-leaf-with-acorn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fall Leaf w\/ Acorn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsdesigns.com\/hayrides-harvest-greeting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hayrides Greeting<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><strong>Paper:<\/strong>\u00a0white<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><strong>Ink:\u00a0<\/strong>Memento tuxedo black<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0Distress inks in warm honey,\u00a0scattered straw, rusty hinge, crushed olive, ripe persimmon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><strong>Accessories:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0stickles, Spellbinders A2 matting basics B dies, drywall mesh, .01 black Micron pen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Technique Challenge on Splitcoast (TLC500) is based on Lydia&#8217;s tutorial found HERE. And I admit, I&#8217;ve been wanting to try it. I love the way the flower looks after Lydia was finished and the hard part was not recreating the exact same thing she did, lol. So I purposely hunted for different images&#8230;maybe a bit ambitious to use so many leaves, though. It took me quite a while to &#8220;etch&#8221; them all. Then I wanted to color them&#8230;but I didn&#8217;t want to cover up all those etched lines so I masked them, placed a piece of drywall mesh on top to use as a stencil and sponged in some background color.\u00a0 After adding the greeting, I also added a frame by using a ruler and a black pen and a hint of border color with a water brush and the rusty hinge distress ink and some stickles on the oak leaf\/acorn for the &#8220;sparkle&#8221; part of challenge.\u00a0 Thanks so much for stopping by! I&#8217;m also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Mon Challenge &#8230;Stamps &amp; Stencils.\u00a0 Supplies: Stamps:\u00a0DRS Designs-\u00a0Med. Silhouette Leaf,\u00a0Open Leaf, Fall Leaf w\/ Acorn, Hayrides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,82,37,43,34,14,446,44],"tags":[157,594,156,168,114,115,448,578],"class_list":["post-17619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cas","category-drs","category-fallhalloween","category-masking-reverse-masking","category-nestabilities","category-scs-challenges","category-scs-weekly-favorite","category-sponging","tag-autumn","tag-drs","tag-fall","tag-masking","tag-spellbinders","tag-scs","tag-splitcoast-weekly-favorite","tag-sponging"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}