Hello there crafty friends! Hope you are all having a Happy New Year! Today I wanted to share with you a scrapbook layout I created using for The Crafter's Workshop a couple weeks ago.
The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own.
The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own.
With the Fall season past and Winter in full swing, lots of my photos seem to have a theme behind them…looking up! These are a few of my favorite ones from November. The colors were so powerful and vibrant, I thought it was perfect for the reality of our recent gloomy days.
Using the colors in the photos, and the graphic nature of them, I thought it would be interesting to create a simple organized page with three stripes of color, using watercolors. I used the Clear Gesso first onto plain white cardstock and let it dry completely.
Then I used liquid watercolor, diluted a bit, to paint on the stripes. The liquid watercolor is great because it is reliably even, and I wanted consistency.
After waiting another few minutes to let the paint dry, I mixed 3 tiny batches of paste in the same colors, using the liquid watercolor to tint the Thick Modeling Paste. I chose a fairly loose, organic stencil to contrast the more rigid lines of the photos and stripes.
Starting at the top of the gessoed area and the top of the stencil, I added the blue modeling paste over the blue watercolor. I very carefully cleaned off the stencil in between colors, not wanting any transfer. I am normally too impatient to complete this step, but it really does make a difference.
After the blue was mostly dry, I repeated the same steps, using the yellow, then red. I skipped down the stencil a bit, so it doesn’t read like the complete stencil pattern, just more of a pattern of texture and shapes.
After letting all the paste dry, I adhered my photos, embellishments and title.
Using the colors in the photos, and the graphic nature of them, I thought it would be interesting to create a simple organized page with three stripes of color, using watercolors. I used the Clear Gesso first onto plain white cardstock and let it dry completely. Then I used liquid watercolor, diluted a bit, to paint on the stripes. The liquid watercolor is great because it is reliably even, and I wanted consistency.After waiting another few minutes to let the paint dry, I mixed 3 tiny batches of paste in the same colors, using the liquid watercolor to tint the Thick Modeling Paste. I chose a fairly loose, organic stencil to contrast the more rigid lines of the photos and stripes.Starting at the top of the gessoed area and the top of the stencil, I added the blue modeling paste over the blue watercolor. I very carefully cleaned off the stencil in between colors, not wanting any transfer. I am normally too impatient to complete this step, but it really does make a difference.After the blue was mostly dry, I repeated the same steps, using the yellow, then red. I skipped down the stencil a bit, so it doesn’t read like the complete stencil pattern, just more of a pattern of texture and shapes.After letting all the paste dry, I adhered my photos, embellishments and title.
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PRODUCTS Used:
TCW9007 – Clear Gesso
