Cards: Faux Torn Mosaic Technique

At Splitcoaststampers you'll find this great link to a pictorial tutorial from Carole Burrage.

Using Cuttlebug folder, Flourish Frame, here are my three samplers using this technique.

Magazine pages provided a good source of colour variety for this card. I've also gone over the flourish with some purple metallic glaze though it hardly shows here.

With a p.v.a. glue base over cardstock to adhere the torn papers (edges dabbed with a brush-marker), then trimmed the cardstock centrepiece to fit the frame.

Two fine layers of a satin-glaze varnish to finish, allowing to dry thoroughly between each coat.

These brilliant papers are from a Sissix pad; black ink around the torn edges, and layered with a slightly larger black cardstock.

A light sanding over the 'flourish' for a distressed look.

Magazine pages for this one also, with a brown brush marker along the torn edges and more "distressing".

Thanks Carole (another Carole with an 'e' too), for sharing your tutorial.