For those of you interested in more ways of using up that white tissue paper, this one is courtesy of Violette's Creative Juice, from her book Journal Bliss:
First you cut a shape from cardstock, and glue it on your substrate. (This happens to be a journal page.) Next, wrinkle some tissue, smooth it out, and glue it to the substrate. (Use the glue most appropriate for your substrate.) When dry, paint with acrylic paint. (Note: the above was coloured with Pan Pastels rather than paint.)
Yesterday was real playtime - getting messy with paints. Michelle Ward's monthly creativity crusade inspired these:
Hop on over to Michelle's Crusade site for complete instructions.
Does anybody else have a large box/bag of white tissue paper from gifts or clothing purchases that they can't bear to throw away? I see a few hands have gone up among you crafters.
I've been looking for something to do with this stuff for years, and suddenly my friends (real live and Internet) have been answering the call.
First, Heather at the stamp club showed us how to make fake washi paper:
This is made by dropping random drops of dye re-inker on wet tissue paper (spray with water) and moving the colour around with a soft paintbrush. A second sheet of tissue can be laid down to absorb some of the moisture and colour. After drying, you bond the tissue to freezer paper and decorate with stamps. (The freezer paper gives it a nice stable weight for further craft handling.)
I tried a similar thing with watercolour sprays and it also worked well. Thanks, Heather!
I'll post another tissue paper technique soon!
In a panic that nobody would want to trade my Ice Cream, Insects & Indigo Artist Trading Cards ("ATC") at the Vancouver ATC Group, I made a few with a hand carved daffodil stamp:
The April Design Challenge for the Vancouver Artist Trading Card Group is Ice Cream, Insects & Indigo. You may choose any or all of the ideas (or invent your own). My last three ATC's for the swap are collages:
The April Design Challenge for the Vancouver Artist Trading Card ("ATC") Group is Ice Cream, Insects & Indigo. You may choose any or all of the ideas (or invent your own). I previously posted an ATC on which I tried to include all three elements. This time I left off the Ice Cream, and went with a butterfly stamp from Magenta:
