'Shiny Stuff'

Very last minute, I know! Had a few 'incidents' in my experimentation but here's my entry for the PaperArtsy challenge 'Shiny Stuff.' 

Sorry for the poor light, will have to update post and add some more photos later!

Update!

My head was buzzing with ideas for shiny stuff, I couldn't decide between Lin Browns wonderful mica on clay or embossing metal. In the end I did both but only after a false start with the clay.

I used a Darcy open flower stamp as my new Lin brown one's haven't arrived yet. I didn't press hard enough. I added mica powders. I then over pin pricked it....looked like the equivalent of wood worm in clay!

Once baked I made a background but I used very similar colours and in the end liked the background more than the clay piece.

The background has layers of brayered paint, stamping, metallic glaze mixed with snowflake and copper fab foil on it.

I had very little black clay left so made 2 much smaller clay pieces, which I much prefer the colours of.  The piece of copper was stamped before embossing the edges. A few more photos.

Thanks for stopping by as always....I'll breathe now!