Hi everyone,
I have fallen a bit behind on my blog posting and I apologize to all my readers....and to those who stop by to see what's new, on their way to somewhere else!! I've been recovering from some health issues caused by some serious flooding where I live that occurred in mid August and for the past couple of days our area has been bracing for the effects of tropical storm Nicole and that passed through last night and left the area in a mess again!!
Now, throughout these past several weeks I've been working on a condenced update of the "etched glass" part of my book and will be uploading that as soon as I can finish putting it together, but meantime, here is a mini tutorial I made quite awhile ago on how to properly place your VELLUM GRID TEMPLATE around your image printed directly to parchment paper. **Please click on the "tutorials" tab for a refresher tut on printing on parchment and making grid border templates to work from.**
Now, there is one thing I believe (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!!!) is being overlooked when working with any of the steps in my Parchment Craft "Etched Glass" Technique.....and that is this: you absolutely MUST emboss on the back side of your printed image!! Find the areas on the image you want to further highlight and give texture to. That is what you would be doing if you were making a totally 'traditional/pure' parchment project. The ONLY thing different we are doing with my technique is printing the image on a sheet of parchment paper!!!! Please pretend the image was created by your own preferred 'pure' parchment technique and you will then always know you MUST emboss on the back to make things look just as they do when working on a 'pure' parchment project. It is NOT acceptable to simply print out the image...then make a grid border around it and call it an "etched glass" project that has been completed properly.
Okay peeps, this is my 'lecture' for today and I promise I will continue to work on the tutorial I've been promising for awhile now, as I know there are some who are waiting VERY patiently for it :))
Hugs to all,
Vickie
Okay peeps, this is my 'lecture' for today and I promise I will continue to work on the tutorial I've been promising for awhile now, as I know there are some who are waiting VERY patiently for it :))
Hugs to all,
Vickie