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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Inspiration for the moodboard challenge for May

Inspiration for the moodboard for May.. come join in: a prize to be won at Rubber Dance!

This background is Ecoline (you could use any watercolor!) on photo paper! .. it makes for such beautiful backgrounds! Give it a try.. I collect photo paper from thrift stores, real cheap. I love paper; even the different brands of photo paper give very different results.

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Paper Weaving Sketchy Flower

This time I'd like to share this technique I recently learned from a post by Karen Dunbrook : Paper Weaving. (I want to give credit where credit is due ) ..
Thanks so much Karen for this inspiration!

Start out by cutting/using up paper strips of about 1,3 centimeters wide and weave them to form the background ..

I chose to make it slightly larger than I would need, so I could just cut the unneeded part away. No need to glue he whole thing, as long as the edges are glued.

As I used regular cardstock strips, I needed to cover the background with a transparent gesso first, as the color will soak into the cardstock.

I chose to color the image with a ready made watercolor, to have more control of the coloring (from Ecoline and Dahler&Rowney).
I put a kitchen towel underneath while coloring the images to absorb any color that would go through the holes in the background.

To provide a nice backdrop for the weaved paper background I created a background with the same colors, and stamped around the edges randomly with some text and mixed media stamps in colored and black ink.

Apart from stamping sequins I also adhered real ones with glossy accents.
The weaved part is adhered to the colorful background with 3D tape for more interest and depth.

Don't tell Susanne, but I think this flower is one of my most-used stamps :) ;
for this project to work I had to use a stamp with a lot of white space, so it's perfect.

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Monday, November 16, 2020

My Creative Monday for Magenta - watercolors on photopaper

Remember me doing a whole bunch of cards on photopaper; using watercolors on it?!

I did not like the background, so painted it with a white water diluted acrylic paint.

I heat embossed the script in white and added white with an acrylic marker as shown; now the flowers pop.