These patterns may only be used for the Memory Box project.
The patterns have been donated by the authors for this use only.

Little Star.... heaven bound

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Designed by Robin Krieger, 1998

Palette:

Delta Ceramcoat: Periwinkle blue White Antique gold Burnt Umber Dark Brown Sparkle glaze

DecoArt Americana Flesh tone Blush flesh French Vanilla Buttermilk Camel Yellow ochre Cadmium red Honey brown Emperor gold

Seal box and sand ,then basecoat with 2 coats of Periwinkle Blue while the second coat is still wet ... slip slap white in circular motion to form clouds. Touching here and there with periwinkle blue to blend in any hard edges .Using a star stencil . Stencil on stars using antique gold . Do the big star then do smaller ones . Make the smaller ones faded into the
clouds . When stars are dry go back and load brush with white paint and refloat near stars to make them look like they are going behind the clouds . Let dry and do again as needed . Box sides are done the same as the clouds but with out the stars.

Apply pattern.

Base coat:
Dress- Uncoat dress in 1 coat of buttermilk ,let dry .then rebase in 2 coats of french vanilla. Shade with camel and highlight with buttermilk. To deepen shaded areas reshade with honey brown .

Wings- Base in buttermilk. Shade with yellow ochre. Highlight with white . Float C strokes along top edge of wings . To deepen shaded area reshade with honey brown. When dry , brush over entire wing with sparkle glaze.

Face- Uncoat face and hands in buttermilk. Rebase with flesh tone . Load brush with flesh tone then dip 1 corner of brush into blush flesh and float around face . Shade hands using the same mix.

Hair- Using a small liner brush , stroke in hair ..first using honey brown, then dark brown and then burnt ember .

Eyes- are small dots of burnt ember . Using a small liner pull out lashes

Nose- a dot of cadmium red

Halo- emperor gold

Letters- liner with thinned white paint

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