DIY Designer Paper with Acrylic Paint

Autumn with you today to take you on a fun little journey with the new range of paints, Skin Tones Acrylic Matte.  I absolutely love this range from apricot to rouge to porcelain - they are gorgeous!

I thought I would test them out on my new Gelli Plate.  I definitely need more practice with the plate, but it was fun nonetheless.  You could replicate these techniques with a brayer DTP if you don't have a plate.  I printed the pink you see on the left, then loaded my plate with a lighter color of paint.  I stamped this soon to be released numeral stamp into the plate and stamped onto my pink panel repeatedly.  After, I did another press with the paint left on the plate, which reverses the image as you see in the finished product below (left).

I cut the best sections that would make great bases and then used the scraps with dies.  For my first project today I am showing you what I did with this center layered panel.  You can see the number printed paper worked great to cut my doily.  The numbers don't show, just the color variation on such an intricate die.

I made one more sheet of colored paper by dropping a little paint onto my craft mat and spraying with water then smooshing my paper into it.  I used it as the base to stamp these butterflies from the Victorian Garden set repeatedly in pink and brown ink.

I gave everything a splat of Metallic Goldfinger Acrylic to finish it off.  The photos don't show the color variation and depth, but trust me it's there!

The next day I picked up one of the other panels and decided to test out Distress Oxide inks over the paint.  Just as I had hoped, the paint did resist the ink in a way.  The ink soaked into the unpainted sections of my paper.  I decided to overstamp and make a pattern, similar to designer paper.  So I embossed the butterfly repeatedly.

See there the number stamping coming through the butterfly?  This butterfly stamp is just soft enough to make a beautiful pattern without being overwhelming.  LOVE!

Here you can see the resist I was referring to.

I layered up some dies and our fabulous Flutterby stamp, which I stamped in brown over some leftover smooshed paper.  Finally, I added one of the sentiments from the set, stamped in the same DOX and attached with the Tiny Attacher.  Thanks for reading to the end!  ;0  I hope you are inspired to make some paper today with your IndigoBlu stamps.  Until next time...

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Walk Gently

Hello Jannet here, and today I am going to be using the stunning new Victorian Garden, and Mindfullness Stamp sets. Victorian Garden has beautiful butterflies gorgeous flowers and two lovely sentiments plus a bumble bee! Mindfullness has wonderful sentiments and an amazing butterfly.

This month we are thinking about "Things with Wings" which inspired me to bring some of our beautiful nature indoors to enjoy.

To create a Nature background I individually mixed a little water with Grandmas Teacup, Olive Waistcoat, and Warm Tan. I laid a wash of Grandmas Teacup onto the top of half the watercolour card, then using a clean wet brush I wiped off some small areas of the blue to create a cloud effect.

I used Olive Waistcoat and the Warm Tan colours on the remaining card by brushing, dabbing, and dragging the brushes in different directions over the card. Using a Coffee Archival inkpad I added the "Walk Gently" sentiment from the Mindfullness set.

I love pressed flowers, so I decided to add a Forget-Me-Not to the picture. (I press my flowers in between paper towels and place them in a thick book. Of course the correct way is to press them between blotting paper and use a flower press!)

I mixed Snow White paint, and Clockwork Heart luscious together and brushed it quite thickly onto the flower stamp and stamped it onto card. The thick paint gave it some texture. I used Snow White paint and Olive Waistcoat paint for the dandelion and fussy cut them both.

The butterfly from the Victorian Garden Stamp set is just beautiful and has quickly become one of my favourites. I used versamarker to stamp it and followed with black embossing powder.I mixed the luscious powders with water and used some artistic license to colour the butterflies, I think I created some new species! I followed the same process for the bees.The luscious powders make them gleam and sparkle beautifully.

I gathered a few twigs from the forest, and used raffia to tie them together to form a frame for the picture.

I juggled all the pieces around until I liked the look, and then adhered all of the flowers, bees and butterflies in place.I adhered the background to the back of the twiggy frame.

To finish I tied a length of raffia onto the back for hanging.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and happy Stamping!

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