Battenburg Lace Motif in progress

Here is a lace motif piece that I am trying out.  I am using lace from a pillow sham that I cut up (got it from Goodwill).  I just got to the point where I laid down the first iridescent color in combination with affixing the lace.  I am experimenting with some more representational forms of L&L.

Here is another photo of it.  I am including this photo because it shows how the lace actually appears lighter than the background.  I believe it's because it sucked up paint while the background did not because it was prepared by acrylic paint under-layers.  I left the background plain on this one (instead of scrim or whatever) and I don't know how that's going to work out.