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Splitcoast Tutorial: Faux Glass

This week's tutorial on Splitcoast is a fun and beautiful up-cycling project. Mary Prasad shows us how to use plastic packaging to create dimensional embellishments that she describes as 'faux glass'. Her sample for the tutorial is a flower, but I thought a layered butterfly would be pretty - I used dies from Impression Obsession to cut the butterflies (Fancy Butterfly die set), and then colored the layers with Touch Twin Markers. I used inks and acrylic paints to create the background for the butterfly - in the week before we moved I had limited supplies to work with that I could still pull out, so I added that challenge to the project. The sentiment is from smARTworks, now out of business. Here's a side view so you can see the dimension on the wings. The technique is fun and easy, and the tutorial is beautiful - I hope you'll give it a try! acrylic paints | Impression Obsession | Impression Obsession dies | mixed media