Ribbons, Lace, and Good Intentions: July 2016

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Breathe

Here's a beach card for you. I love the dreamy mood created in the beautiful photo by Paper House, and decided to use it as my focal point,and inspiration.

Supplies Used:

To make this I sprayed my dry watercolors with water,scribbled on some water soluble oil pastels on my craft mat, and made little puddles of paint of the blues,greens, and purples I planned on using. Using watercolor paper, I misted about half the page, and applied a small amount of paint. I misted again, and tilted the page in different directions to let the paint run, then again to soften any hard edges. I used a heat gun to dry it,then put on more layers in different colors. I also used metallic watercolors,and watercolor pencils. I took small amounts of teal liquid pearls and brushed them on all the edges of the paper,flowers, and on random spots on the glitter.

You can see I flicked on paint all around. To create more texture I used glass glitter in clear and champagne,shells, bling, and sequins. The page got too busy, so I brushed on some white watercolor,and white acrylic paint. I rubbed on pearl mica power all over the card. To finish up I put more diamond glitter glue on the edges of the flowers.

The little girl is from a greeting card I cut up, and the great egret is from a photo I took locally.

The flowers are watercolors over dry gesso, followed by clear glass glitter and pearl mica powder.

Thank you so much for looking, and have a great week!

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Believe

Hi everyone! Melissa here with an art journal page for you. I love the detail and intense colors of Paper House products, so I made a stunning pink dahlia image the center of the page.

Supplies Used:

I used a page of a 9 x 12 watercolor book to support all the media I wanted to use. I prepped the page with white gesso, followed by texture paste applied through some paper die cuts. I used pink shimmery watercolor, and water soluble oil pastels. I didn't have a sprays in the colors I wanted to use, so I mixed what I had with water, and brushed a lot on the diamond texture. I tipped the page in different directions, let the color run all over,misted it with water to soften and blend it,and used a heat gun to dry it. I used the same process for the green. I glued the beautiful flower image onto a piece of paper and put it on the page. To add more texture I added glass glitter, micro beads, seed beads, and threads I pulled from a piece of gauze. I lightly brushed the pink crayon over the diamond texture along the outer edges of the page, and misted it. I added green watercolor randomly in between the diamonds. If any of the colors ran I blotted them off with a paper towel.

To add more visual interest I put on butterfly and rose stickers, rub ons, flowers,bling, stamps, a cut up black and white vintage photo, and die cuts.

The page looked too busy, so I brushed white gesso over some areas. Along the edges of the page I brushed it on lightly, as an accent.

I don't really like a mat white look, so I brushed pearl mica powder over all the areas I'd used gesso.

Thanks for looking, and have a great day!

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Peace

I painted a few cherry blossoms using a photo as a reference,and then stenciled on some modeling paste. I added flowers, pearls, die cuts, microbeads,sequins, and stickers. I added more paint using Shimmers , Twinkling H20s, Watercolor pencils, Viva Decor Inka Gold, and Winsor and Newton watercolors. After almost everything I put on, I used an empty hairspray bottle filled with water to mist on water. This blended the colors and softened edges.