Grand Gothic Iron Work Christmas Window and Blog Candy.

Good Wednesday morning.  Here is another one of the new Poppystamps window dies.  If you haven’t checked them out yet you are missing out. My project today uses  a combination of the Grand Gothic Window and Grand Gothic Iron Work.  They are so beautiful.

I would have attempted to put some type of stained glass window behind the iron but haven’t figured out how yet.  That leads me to my blog candy offer. Please leave me a comment if you have a good suggestion on how I can apply the appearance of stained glass to all of my new Poppystamps windows.  I will award one lucky winner with the new Poppystamps Antique Lamp Post. You will have until noon on Saturday, October 13 to qualify for the random.org drawing.

 

I die cut the window and sponged versa on it and embossed with black embossing powder.  I wanted to have the wrought iron look. I cut out a piece of white vellum and attached to the back of the window with mounting tape.  I popped up the embossed layer with mounting tape for added dimension and then attached the window to the embossed base with another layer of mounting tape for another bit of dimension.

I punched out the candles in both red and yellow and cut the flame portion off the red and attached to the yellow with glossy accents. I extended the length of all the candles  and attached them to the base of the window. I arranged pine across the window sill and added the red bow.  I applied glossy accents to the red portion of the candles and yellow stickles to the flame to add sparkle.  It doesn’t really show in the photo. 

OK.  I’m counting on you guys to give me ideas for creating stained glass windows.  I thought maybe I could use alcohol ink markers to color transparency but it didn’t turn out very well.  Please give me your ideas and advice. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

 

 

Paper: Black, White, Red, Yellow, Old Olive, Vellum   Accessories:  Poppy Stamps Grand Gothic Window, Grand Gothic Iron Work, Martha Stewart Branch Punch, Martha Stewart Birthday Candle Punch, Sizzix Loving Thoughts Embossing Folders, Glossy Accents, Mounting Tape, Glue Dots, Stickles , ATG, Big Shot,

Comments

[Carmen S]

1.

Have you tried clear accetate, with perhaps some distress color on it.

[Starqueen]

2.

Hi Kittie,
Oooh, I do love that window combo and your card is exquisite!
I think you can "make" stained glass by cuting the ironwork die out of multple colors of vellum along with the black wrought iron outline. Then piece the colred sections within the iron work. I hope that makes sense...
Thanks for sharing all you do!

[Christy]

3.

What about the idea of cutting a lightweight vellum or transparency of the window shape and coloring with permanent marker or sharpie??

I love love love the card!! I have really got to get me some of those die cuts!!

[Marleen]

4.

Ik zou de ramen doen met twinkles. Heel mooie kaart !
Groetjes Marleen

[Ellen]

5.

Hi Kittie,
There was a TLC challenge on SCS several years ago. I think it was TLC181~Stained glass. This would work perfectly if you attached the die cut in front of the acetate.
Your card is GAWGEOUS!!!

[Ellen]

6.

Forgot to tell you to mix glossy accents or crystal effects with reinkers and paint it on. It really does look like stained glass when you are done. Here is an example....
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1015394?&cat=500&ppuser=142185

[holly aka kopykat]

7.

Straight into my fav's this goes...along with most of your others, lol. I think I would cut out the window in velum, attach it to the back. Cut out the iron and attach it to the front and then color the vellum on the back with my copic markers and then see from the front how beautiful the effect would be. Coloring on the front of the vellum would be too obvious and not really give you the look you are trying to achieve. LOVE the blog candy! Thanks for the chance to win!!!

[Gabby]

8.

That is a beautiful die and your card conveys such a "peaceful" holiday feeling. My first thought on how to create a stained glass window would be to cut or tear small pieces of paper, glue them to a solid piece of cardstock, then place behind the window. Then I realized you may not end up with each section the same color. On second thought, knowing how perfect and precise your designs are, that would probably look too messy for you. I think the best way would be to decide which colors you want to go in each section, then cut small pcs of each color accordingly. You'd have to then adhere them into each section of the window. Otherwise, you could put the die cut window onto a solid piece of cardstock or velumn and color the sections w/copics, markers, pens, pencils, inks and then fill them in w/gloss to give the appearance of glass. Hope my ideas help you. :)

[Susan]

9.

Beautiful card! I love the window and those candles are perfect in front of the window. What I do for the stained glass look is...I cut a piece of acetate either with the die or by hand, in the shape of the window. I then place my window down with the back side up and the piece of the acetate on top of that. Using a cuticle Q-tip (because they have a pointed end), I color each section with alcohol ink. Working from the back you can see the different sections showing through from the wrought iron / lead work of the stained glass window. I adhere the acetate piece all around the edge of the window so that it doesn't show when I flip the window over. Hope this all made sense. I love the look alcohol inks give on acetate.

[linda dekker]

10.

What a gorgeous card, I think clear sheet (accetate) and permanent markers works fine. I do it myself that way.
hugs Linda

[Barbara Jay]

11.

Gorgeous card !! Like minds think alike LOL.
I have been working on the faux stained glass idea too.

So far I cut out the Grand Gothic Iron work in black CS. Attached it to vellum and colored the sections with water based markers.
I do parchment craft and color on vellum. The way I do it is to scribble the water based marker on a white ceramic tile and pick up the color with a damp brush.

The velum is translucent so it looks like stained glass.

Then I cut the entire colored vellum piece with the Grand Gothic window die so I would have space to glue it to a second die cut of the Grande Gothic window die edge . I find that mini glue dots in places where they will not show is the best way to attach vellum to anything.
Barbara Jay

[Moz]

12.

Stunning card Kittie!
I would use Alcohol Inks on Acetate. It gives a lovely translucent look, just like glass, and is easy to work with. Hope this helps!
Hugz

[karenladd]

13.

Wow, this arched window die is gorgeous! I would turn it into a stained glass window by attaching clear acetate behind it and coloring with alcohol inks!

[Gail]

14.

Hi Kittie, perhaps you could get some ideas from this link? http://creativeexpressionsdesigns.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/marbled-acetate-christmas-cracker/
Your cards are always so wonderful x

[Chris]

15.

Hi Kitie- I love your card! How about trying the Egg shell motif on Splitcoast Stampers? I have not tried it myself but can't wait to try it. Here is the link to the tutorial-
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/eggshellmosaicbackground/

[Bridget]

16.

Oh my goodness, Kittie, exquisite...I love how you push the boundaries and give us so much inspiration with your use of dies...and enable us, of course! I wonder if sponging acetate with an ink like Stayzon would give an even color on it? Just a thought....

[Pat Garvin]

17.

sponging on glossy cardstock or acetate

[Laurie]

18.

Another awesome card, thanks so much for all the inspiration

[Scrappy Belle]

19.

Beautiful idea. I use acetate and sharpie pens because they do not smear and their small tip will allow a tight squeeze in the small areas. Cannot wait to see the card.

[Rosalia]

20.

Kittie, what a beautiful card! I have made stained glass in my computer by "drawing" diagonal lines for the "lead" and then coloring in each pane with pale pink, blue and yellow. I then printed it on onion skin paper to give that wavy look of stained glass. I left some panes uncolored so that the onion paper showed a soft beige. Using the onion skin gives a translucent look to the "window"

Or, my daughter said you could scan in the scroll work and bucket fill each section with the colors you wanted and then print it out.

[Stephanie Bonin]

21.

How about alcohol inks used as watercolor. I just saw a tutorial on Splitcoast stampers. By the way, this window is gorgeous.

[Peggy]

22.

Hi, I've used vellum to create stained glass...you could make a die cut and use it as a template and color the vellum for the window based on the pattern. I really love these window dies...now I've got to have them. Ha. Ha.
Beautiful card!
Peggy

[liz in mo]

23.

This may have already been mentioned, but you could use alcohol inks or copics on a piece of acetate, or on a piece of tissue paper, I can't wait to see how you do it though, because I bet it will be beautiful!

[Jan Douglas, Florida]

24.

This is something I've done and it works beautifully.

Cut out your ornate window.
Lay it on double sided sticky sheet. Trim away excess.
Cover the whole thing with microfine clear or white glitter and burnish it in real good.
Now color with alcohol markers as desired...I use Copics...CAUTION...DO NOT use brush strokes...PAT/DAUB your markers into the glitter and color sections from the center as the ink will run/spread a bit.
Mount finished piece onto clear acetate, vellum, cardstock depending on the look you want to achieve.

This works great with outline type stickers...love the gold ones especially.

Good luck.

[Kathy Hogan]

25.

What a beautiful card. It's already in my favorites.

I would try coloring the back of vellum with regular markers. If you didn't want to color all of the sections what about the polished stone technique on acetate?

[Donna R]

26.

My first thought was tissue paper collage style. I remember making stain glass effect items as a child with tissue paper. The glue wasn't as good back then and you could always see a glue line but I bet you could find the right glue that wouldn't show the glue lines. Beautiful card with or without the stained glass effect.

[[email protected]]

27.

Just love all of your cards. I would take photo paper and smear some alchol inks on it with a few dabs of silver or gold here and there.
Mary Lou From WNY

[Debra Sellers]

28.

Hi Kittie,

I have used double sided sticky sheets before, traced the pattern onto it and cut out sections at a time to apply different colors of micro glitter. Works great!

[Lori A-O]

29.

Acetate and polished stone technique works well for me.

[Kym Weber]

30.

Hi Kittie~I've seen where you use glossy accents and different color microbeads. It is absolutely stunning when completed. Obviously, the gothic window would need to be glued down well first, a light coating of glossy accents and then whatever color microbeads you would like to start with. Then on to the next color until you have each section covered.

Your creation is still absolutely gorgeous! The creativity that can be done with that window!

Hugs, Kym

[Carol Leader]

31.

Use light weight acetate behind the iron work, after the iron work has already been run through the Xyron. Make sure to go over the iron work, when it is still inside the 2 layers from the Xyron, to get off all the extra glue from the open spaces. Then use gel pens to apply the stained glass after the iron work is on the acetate. The gel pens flow on. Besides the Xyron, you could use a spray adhesive on the back of the iron gate. It's gorgeous.
Carol Leader
(if I'm lucky enough to be chosen, I'll be away next week and probably not on a computer)

[Carol R]

32.

As others have suggested the first idea that comes to mind to make a stain glass window is to use acetate. I'd color from behind the window with alcohol markers or use very fine glitter following the openings of the iron work. Your card is beautiful using the Gothic window dies.

[Laura Lok]

33.

Couple of suggestions. What about bits of colored tissue paper behind the window. Or polished stone technique. Or lastly just some vibrant color on paper then some dimensional glass or crystal effects over that

[Betsy B.]

34.

You could lay a piece of acetate over the die and color with a permanent marker, then glue to diecut. That should be pretty easy and work well!

[Birgit]

35.

There is a product from DecoArt called Glass Stain and it is good on glass and plastic. What if you used clear acetate under your window and applied the glass stain. I don't know if it would work but with your talent you can make anything work! ;)

[Katherine Lawson]

36.

Hi Kittie, when I did doll houses, I used to use transparencies and Gallery Glass, or other stained glass craft paint. It's very translucent, and you can even make it a bit textured if you want variety in your "glass".

[sally]

37.

just love your card as I love all your creations kittie, how about mirri board and alcohiol inks with blender, acetate is a great idea, promarkers, expect all these have already been suggested, now I have to go out and buy that die, you are a naughty girl for putting temptation my way with all these new dies lol,

[Linda R.]

38.

Hi Kittie! I think I'd try cutting the window out of 4 or five rich jewel tone papers and then piece back in the colored pieces in your beautiful black frame.

[Dianne]

39.

Woohoo look at all the comments, love it. The card is beautifulllllllllll...

[Jean H. Hall]

40.

You could try Dazzling Lights Technique. You can find video on this at: www.L-INK-edtopaper.blogspot.com/ It uses aluminum foil (crumbled), ink and acetate window sheets.

[Miranda]

41.

Hi Kittie, wow love that window, it's such a beautiful die and of course you make them even more superlicious!
Just a question, in your tutorial I saw a distress tool to crunch the flowers, what type or brand do you use for that?
warm greet Miranda

[kathy amstutz]

42.

US give YOU ideas? ha! Your ideas awe me!!! I would think maybe you could use a blender pen with Stazon to draw a stained glass window on a transparency and color it in with different colored sharpies; wonder if that would work.....good luck and I look forward to seeing all the cards you make with the inspiration from your readers AND your own marvelous imagination. oh! and I'd LOVE to win the dies!!! Thanks for the chance.....

[Leslie]

43.

I am going to try this method - Cut the window frame and window and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Cut the window frame from clear acetate. Adhere the window to the acetate. I'll use the DecoArt glass stain to color in the sections. Kittie this card is absolutely beautiful, as always. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.

[Laura Love]

44.

Gorgeous card Kitty! I saw a stunning card on splitcoast stampers that used a glitter stained glass window technique, where you stamped on a thin layer of acetate, then glittered the reverse side. Turns out breathtaking!! Here is a link to the card I saw that explains the technique...

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2150059?sort=&page=&sortby=&sorttime=&sortdir=

Thanks for the chance to win that cute post die! Can't wait to see how you do the stained glass :)

[Donna]

45.

Gorgeous card Kittie,
I used a similar technique when wanting a varied color behind a cut out butterfly, and we used acetate colored with alcohol inks, works great, each little section would not be one specific color like they do it in real life, the only way to do that would be to cut out each section individually.
Or maybe glue down the cut out ironwork grill, glue it down well, where nothing could leak underneath it, onto acetate and then color each section separately as you now have a sealed palate, using what ever medium you want to color it with. Do you know what I mean?
Just food for thought.Think I will attempt it, my dies should be here any day, will let you know how mine turns out.
hugs
Donna

[Angelic C.]

46.

I love the christmas card. I would use glossy paper and alcohol ink.

[Colleen]

47.

I love the card you made and its beautiful just the way it is. But if you wanted to add stain glass to the next card you make with this great window die, I think you should cut several different colors of velum and piece together and place on the back of the window die, that way you would have several extra pieces for more windows! Or you could just put white paper behind it and emboss each section to make a design with different colors. Thanks for a great giveaway.

[KellyRae]

48.

Gorgeous card and I LOVE the candles in front. A stained glass look would be easy to achieve with alcohol or sharpie markers on either transparency sheet (for a vibrant look) or vellum (more muted). Diecut the sheet using your window die, then attach to the back of your cardstock window, attach your ironwork diecut to the front of your cardstock window, and flip over the completed window to color each portion. Another option would be to print a brightly colored floral or garden photograph onto your transparency sheet, then use your window die to diecut the shape and attach as above. Pop up your completed window on your cardfront. Thanks for your inspiration!

[Allisa]

49.

Fabulous card, love your work. I have noticed that some stained glass is more transparent than others. For me, I would go with cardstock pieces to make your design, and then cover in liquid glass to give the look of stained glass.

[ChrisAndCat]

50.

This is gorgeous, I wonder if you could colour acetate in some way with inks to act as the stained glass? Love the window, I need that die too!!

[Diana Nguyen]

51.

Beautiful card - I am loving that new die. I didn't get a chance to read through all the great suggestions so forgive me if someone has already mentioned these:
1. The cracked glass technique using ultra thick embossing powder
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/cracked_glass/
2. Cutting different colored cardstocks that have been clear embossed with the same die as the scrollwork and using those different pieces as background if you wanted each pane to be a different color instead of a mosaic of sorts. It sounds a bit tedious but all your cards are so detailed it'll be a breeze for you.

I am looking forward to seeing what you end up doing!

[Denise]

52.

Tear tissue paper into small pieces and glue onto a piece of wax paper or acetate with a lot of random colors. Then attach the window frame and cut off the excess. I can just imagine how gorgeous it will look...now another thing to add to my wish list!!!

[Diana Nguyen]

53.

Just thought of something else - instead of clear embossing the cardstock first, you could just use the glossy accents to give it some shine.

[Sue D]

54.

Vellum! color back side w. markers and will show thru beautifully!

[Renee]

55.

Another fantabulous card Kittie. I have a similar window and use packing tape with sticky side up, of course. That way you can gently sprinkle your favorite ultra fine glitter colors in each space

[[email protected]]

56.

This is beautiful,Kittie, and I agree that it would work beautifully as a stained glass window. I would trace your iron pattern, then use your wonderfully vibrant colors to color in the pattern...then emboss it.

[kathy]

57.

i love the card!! i know a few years ago there was a craft where you put some type of glue on a garment then took foil and rubbed it on the glue (not sure if it was glue that was used) and the 'glue' took on the color & design of the foiling. i still have some of that foiling and i know it would look lovely in the window. the foil comes in all colors and designs. you may have to put a med wt acetate in front of it to protect the foil.

[Suzy]

58.

It's not exactly like stained glass where each section is an individual color, but you could use something like the polished stone alcohol ink technique and put that behind the window die cut. That would be very pretty. You could also use vellum behind the die cut and then color the various sections different colors. I've seen people color on the back of the vellum for a more muted look. And again while not the traditional stained glass look you could put paper or vellum behind the die cut that has been watercolored in any of a number of ways to give mixed or variegated colors. And I guess even though the die is very delicate, depending on your patience level, you could cut the die in as many colors and/or types of paper as you want and then like puzzle pieces put the colors in the places you want them gluing it all down to another piece of paper.

I didn't read any of the other comments, but will look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future using this die. It's always fun to see your projects.

[charlene]

59.

try to use a sheet of shrinky dink,color with sharphies,and cut to size. Allow enough because it will shrink.May have to try a few times.

[Pattie Jns]

60.

Good afternoon, Kittie, WOW! WOW! WOW! this is a gorgeous card. Personally I like it the way it is. so elegant in design and feeling. I checked many of the answers, if I was going to do the stained glass, I think I would use the glue and glitter one. It takes longer but love the texture feel. For smooth, think I would use foil colored paper and make a mosaic design , then cut to fit the iron frame. Spellbinders has metallic foil(beautiful and bright in colors for stained glass and Christmas ornaments.) but watch it wrinkles easy and sharp edges when you cut it.
thanks for sharing, and marvelous inputs.....LOL

[Loly Borda]

61.

My suggestion is to use colored vellum, or vellum that you can color yourself, even though there's not much spache to attach them... I love your work, Thanks for the chance to win

[Ingrid]

62.

I should use distress ink and a lot of gloss varnish!!! Greetings Ingrid

[Robin P]

63.

Maybe you could secure a piece of vellum behind the die cut & color it in with markers or Koh-I-Nor (sp) pencils.

[Anne Buist]

64.

Hi Kittie,

Do what I did for my Poppy Gothic Window and place shiny shiny two tone or plain washi type paper (got at Michael's) behind the window and grill work....or embossed the paper and rub it down with sanding block, or
if you prefer rub over the embossing with Black Staz-on ink.
Sincerely abuist Splitcoast gallery name)

[Saundra Grose]

65.

Love this card.

Have you thought about colored foils.

You could die cut the widow out of the various colors of foils then glue the "colored glass" sections behind the corresponding section of the actual window.

Saundra

[Andrene]

66.

My suggestion is cutting the basic shape of the window out in vellum (like a frosty window!) and coloring the scroll sections in different colors to look like stained glass. Super cute card - love that die!!!

[Glenda]

67.

I've painted on the back side of acetate with alcohol inks and it looks great from the front. Martha Stewart has some new transparent glass paints that seem like they would work great for this but haven't bought them yet. Good luck, and your card really doesn't need anything else. It's stunning as is!

[Susan S.]

68.

Love the card and agree you are the biggest enabler on the web right now - but we still love you. I would probably go with the Deco Glass Stain or Glass Paints on acetate or vellum. But be sure and cut out the back of th window through to the card so when the card is open the light shines through the front of the card and lights up the window. You can add an interior frame so that the window looks pretty from the inside too. It would be like a real window seeing through to the other side. You know you could tranform this into a four sided 'frame' around a votive candle that poured light through the windows surrounding it. You go girl!

[Denise Bryant]

69.

Gorgeous card!I love the window die and beautiful candles!
How about a piece of watercolor paper with this technique? I dampen it then lay torn pieces of colored tissue paper on top. You have to check the tissue to make sure it isn't colorfast. It should bleed into the watercolor paper and when it dries, it gives a beautiful look, very soft colors. I think it would be beautiful behind the window.
DeniseB

[Shari Albrecht]

70.

Love the card. So many choices on how to create stained glass: color on vellum & put behind the window, use pieces of different pieces of colored cellophane & I love the idea of using fine glitter with this. You could do it all in white and color it or use different colors of fine glitter. Good directions were given in an earlier comment.

[Linda R.]

71.

Absolutely love the card. You are definitely an inspiration and I really want the dies now. I agree with the others that the alcohol inks or the ultra fine glitter would make a beautiful window. Can't wait to see what you use after all the suggestions.

[Denise Bryant]

72.

Forgot to say that when the tissue pieces are dry, you remove them. So the colors wouldn't necessarily line up with the sections on the window, but it would look beautiful!
DeniseB

[Leigh]

73.

Dover Publications offers stained glass coloring books. I color with Sharpies, apply the ink heavily and smear it before it dries. Makes a wonderful stained glass effect!

[Diane Hover]

74.

I think it is beautiful...I went to a workshop today, and we made stained glass with egg shells...gorgeous...if you go to Dars Craft Creations (she is on my blog list), she has one on her blog...the tutorial is on Splitcoast stampers....so fun and so beautiful!!

[Caroline D.]

75.

Beautiful card and those window dies are now on my wish list! lol I just wrote my suggestion on your 10-12 Gothic Arch Christmas Post, but I'm putting it here too for a chance at your great blog candy. :o) I use sticky tape sheets and apply Glitter Ritz highlight glitter and burnish it on well like the instructions. Once burnished, the glitter doesn't keep falling off like other glitters. Then the cool part is that you can color the highlight glitter with your Copics and colorless blender pen without the glitter sticking to the nib. Plus you can get the most amazing shadowing/shading effects with this technique.

[Cathy Weber]

76.

How about trying metallic paper in different colors with diamond glaze on it? Thanks for the chance to win! It is hard to imagine that you are asking for ideas...I am ALWAYS stealing ideas that you come up with!

[shartl]

77.

This is so beautiful! I'm thinking that a transparency colored with alcohol inks and a Tim Holta applicator would look great...rather than using markers. I love it just the way it is now though!

[Victoria C.]

78.

Kitty, I LOVE this one...went straight to the site and bought all the dies. :) in the meantime I use to put stained glass in to christmas village windows.Ithink if you made two of the gothic windows, put one down, used micro fine glitters and very light glue or better yet the tacky paper (wonder tape the large size cut to the window size, the glitter sticks very well to the wonder tape.) I am going to try it this way...I pray it works..I learned a technique in a small mtn town 2 yrs ago...very pretty...I think Rocky Mountain Memories might have the technique as I learned from the owner...so pretty, neat clean....and I am going to use a gold marker to line the windows (the outside of the window) YOU gotA LOT OF great ideas...this is one more...love your work..love,love, love it..happy holidays, victoria