As soon as I read the article by Jean Littlejohn in the current issue of 'Stitch' I knew I wanted to give it a go. So I set to and painted my bondaweb with acrylic paints.
First colour: Quin. Burnt Orange.....
..... followed by Phthalo Blue.....
..... then Quin. Nickel Azo Gold.....
..... and finally, Iridescent Copper mixed with a little Red Oxide.
This is what it looked like once it was dry. The copper certainly stands out a lot more.
I then found a piece of synthetic velvet coloured a deep blue and red using transfer paints. This I realised later was a mistake. This piece was originally white, the transfer paints just sit on the top therefore the back stays white. I should have chosen a piece that was a deep colour all the way through.

The bondweb was ironed onto the synthetic velvet.
And a sheet of gold coloured Transfoil was ironed on top.

(And in case you didn't already know, you can buy your foil from here at a really good price!)
Deep mauve organza was then ironed on top.

This is what the piece looks like after the intial embellishing had been worked.
Further embellishing makes it look like this.
And this is where I had to stop. As I said earlier I used the wrong ground fabric therefore I couldn't embellish from the back as Jean has done and even from the front the white was beginning to show through. I think next time too I might try and accentuate those ridges and puckers that you can see in the two photos above.
So at the end I decided to set the heat gun on it.

And this is the final result.

Not really what I was after but it still has possibilities.