Striking Gold

 For today's post I've started with 140-lb. hot press (smooth surface) watercolor paper and covered it with gold metallic paint, loving this rich shade that Golden makes--

After the paint dried, I added stencils, holding each in place with masking tape --

The stencils shown above are:

on the far right, my 9"X 12" Borders #2 stencil -- 

at bottom left, a portion of my 9"X 12" Boxed Vines stencil;

my 6"X6" Mimosa stencil (upper left);

my 6"X6" Kaleid stencil (middle top.)

Next, I very lightly pounced thru the stencil openings with a Ranger alcohol ink applicator and just a few drops of Ranger alcohol inks, pictured below.  

Below is the sheet of gilded paper after the stencils were lifted off.

I then cut out each of the stenciled areas; most of them are pictured below:

Above:  For this print, I used a portion of my 9"X 12" stencil Boxed Vines.

Above:  For this print, I used one of the three borders in my 9"X12" stencil Borders # 2.

Above:  This print was made with my 6"X 6" Kaleid stencil.

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