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Monday, March 24, 2008

Decorative Paper Tutorial......

I've been experimenting with pages from books to make my own decorative papers for backgrounds on my Artist Trading Cards as well as collages. I thought you might like to see the process......

The first thing to do is to get a book you are willing to sacrifice and tear out a page. Dilute a little acrylic paint and brush over the entire page. Make sure it is diluted enought that you can still see the text show through.....

Next dilute a little bit of robin egg blue acrylic paint and dip the bottom of the paint bottle in it and stamp circles randomly over the paper.......After the blue circles have dried, I took a bronze colored ink pad and dabbed it all over the paper here and there.......

I looked throught my stamp collection and found swirls and I flower that I liked and stamped with black ink over everything.....Next, I took the tip of the brush and dipped it into crocus yellow paint and made dots all over...The last thing I did was to take sequin waste and use to it stencil dots with brown ink.So now I have a piece of background paper to use for a few ATCs!