PAINT SCRAPINGS

I have been playing with backgrounds extensively these past couple of days and having a great time! This is just plain ole playing! I have tried scanning some of them, but the gold and glitz just don't scan well, so I ended up scanning just the 'paint scraping' that I did.

TYVEK AND THREAD CAPTURE

This was prompted after reading and thoroughly enjoying Sherrill Kahn's book Creative Embellishments.

The first piece is painted and heated Tyvek. Iron tyvek between two sheets of Teflon ironing sheets. The other three pieces are fabric and threads ironed between two pieces of sheet protector. Again using the Teflon ironing sheets.

TEXTURE PAGE IN AB BOARD BOOK

This is page 4 in my board book titled Creativity, which I am doing with the Yahoo group, AB Canada.

This page is a fun one, lots of texture, tissue and paints.
Left side, I squirted on some threads of dimensional paint, two layers of different sections of the same tissue; gel medium, and finally a coat of liquid laminate. I then brushed on some blue green Pearl X when the laminate was still wet, and Perfect Pearls Kiwi.

Right side, I put molding paste on the page, ran a texture comb through it in a wavy design…let dry. Glued another tissue on top, stamped big fish on tissue and glued down. Stamped little fish with white ink, and lightly painted tops of page ridges with metallic paints. The diving boy is made with air-dry clay and painted with markers and rub-ons.

Taking a risk, isn’t he?!

MY FIRST ATC'S

These are ATC's I made with The Artist's Circle yahoo group. This is a workshop, and this is my first attempt at making ATC's. What a small canvas to work with! These 5 ATC's have just 3 items; next week we find out what next element to add.

EXPERIMENTING

This is the second spread for the board book Class for the ABCanada Yahoo group.
The two pages have different types of experiments happening. :))

INK EMBOSS RESIST

This is a technique shown by CrazyArtGirl in one of her blog postings. I tried it, came up with this. It is really hard to show shimmer and shine in scans, but here goes.

FOIL AND CRACKLE PAINT TECHNIQUE

This is a technique I decided to try using aluminum foil and crackle paint. This tech was given to us by Toni Curtis on the Yahoo Altered Books group. This is what I came up with. Now what to do with it? I don't know why foil was used instead of just plain crumpled paper, I don't see a difference. Perhaps when I use it a bright light will shine....