Made by *B*

 think I may have come up with a new technique on my own-go me!

I started off doing a polished stone piece. Polished stone is done using glossy paper. You take a cottonball and soak it mildly in rubbng alcohol and put 2-3 drops of reinkers on the cottonball.  Then you take the alcohol/reinkered cottonball and dab it all over the glossy cardstock and you get a background piece that looks like stone.

I started out doing that to make fall leaves on the tree branches from the new set Branch Out, but I didn’t stop when I should have and it got toooo mottled looking. So then I thought about how I could use my new texture plates and polished stone and an idea hit me-could I do the polished stone ON the texture plate? So I set off to try out.

1.I started off with a texture plate (this is the new SU! texture plate called Damask-exclusive to SU!).

2.I took a cottonball lightly soaked with rubbing alcohol and dabbed 3 drops each of reinker in the colors of Cameo Coral and Rose Red.

3. Rather than dabbing the reinkers onto the paper, I took the reinkers and dabbed them all over the texture plate. Since it is plastic this will not stick to it or hurt it.

4. I laid my glossy paper down (gloss side on the texture plate) and cranked it through as I normally would

5. When I was done I gently pulled up the glossy paper and the main textured image you see is what came out. Pretty cool, huh?

The butterfly is glossy paper also dabbed with teh same color combo in polished stone. I went around the edge with a black marker to add some contrast. There is also a black cardstock butterflu underneath to ground it a bit.

I added 3 jumbo brads along the left side and used 2 fire crystal brads and 1 of the new crystal clear brads to add some more shine!

qtfm: whether doing pokished stone on paper or any other surface, use a clothespin to hold the cottonball. That way your hands will not get too inky or dried out from touching the rubbing alcohol.

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