Painting on tissue paper

I liked the painted tissue paper I made by trying a lot of techniques on one project, so I tried to recreate it.

I started by painting a piece of 9x12 inch mix media paper with gesso I had tinted with yellow acrylic paint. Then using mod-podge I glued down glitter tissue paper.

Using soft pastels I colored the tissue paper.

Next I covered the pastels with mod-podge. The mod-podge blends and seals the pastels and holds the tissue paper in place.

I painted another piece of mix media paper with gesso I tinted with blue acrylic.

Then I pressed the tissue paper painting onto the blue paint.

Then I pressed the tissue paper painting onto the blue paint. I wanted a little more contrast, so I painted some of the tissue paper orange with watercolor markers.

I tried again, this time I started with a green background and pressed the painting onto red and yellow paint.

On this piece I used several layers of different colors of pastels, than several layers of different colors of tinted gesso. The end result is pretty messy.

I cut circles out of the last painted tissue paper project to use on a box I made to hold paper for a new project.

I used the piece I cut the circles out of to go on the bottom of a box I made to hold my watercolor paper I cut up for zentangles.  The end result of the painted tissue paper was not exactly like the first time, but still very interesting. Because the layer of mod-podge you can paint on them with watercolor or any other medium. I shaded, shadowed and highlighted the pieces I glued to the boxes I made, and they look great. If you try this technique yourself, don’t be surprise if it does not look anything like the pieces I did. The fun part is it will always look unique, just have fun with it.

Tissue paper and pastels handmade card

I started with white cardstock that I marbleized with gold spray paint. I decided instead of a color wash I would glue tissue paper with glitter on to the cardstock using gel medium.

Using soft pastels I added color to the tissue paper.

I applied mod-podge to the tissue paper to seal the pastel; when I did the pastels blended together.  The painting looked muddy after that. In order to add contrast, I painted some mixed medium paper with gesso that I had colored with light blue acrylic paint, then I put the cardstock with the tissue on top of it and pressed down lightly. The gesso covered only the raised parts of the tissue paper.

I cut the cardstock up into pieces and made two simple cards that can have more added to them later, to make father’s day cards or thank you cards.

Handmade collage card

I had planned to make this card simple, but I got carried away. I starting with the marbleized paper with the blue wash, it did not seem like enough, so I tore off a piece of a acrylic painting I had already cut up.

I glued both pieces to orange cardstock, and then I decided I did not like the background, so I cut most the background out. I outlined the paper that did not get cut out with copper acrylic paint.  I painted the rest of the background with gold acrylic paint. I needed to attach white cardstock to the inside of the card to give me something to glue the new background to. The new background was more blue paper, brown cardstock and a piece of a watercolor painting that matched perfectly.

 The card can be a thinking of you card or something can be written or drawn on to the top right hand corner. I love all the layers on this card; I will have to make another one like it, on purpose this time.

Thank you card from marbleized paper

I’m still working on replenishing my thank you card reserve. 

On this card I used two sheets of my marbleized paper. I used the one with the orange wash and the one with the blue wash.

I cut a piece from the orange wash paper and taped it to the front of the card using double-sided tape. I cut curvy strips off the blue wash paper and glued it on top using tacking glue. I wrote thank you on the small strip, then used watercolor to add shading and shadow. I used a white sharpie pen to add highlights. 

The card is a little strange; I’ll just need to pick someone that appreciates strange to give the card to.

Cards using marbleized watercolor paper

The gold paint on the watercolor paper was a little flaky, so after I cut out the shapes I sealed the paper with mod-podge.

         

I made the two cards pretty much the same. The watercolor paper is outlined in gold on the first card and blue on the second. It is glued on blue cardstock using tacky glue on the first card, glued on light orange on the second. Both cards have white cardstock taped on the inside using double sided tape. The first card could be used for anything. If I get better at my handwriting, I will write happy father’s day on the front. The second card is a thank you card. I am happy with the two cards, I'm sure I will use both layouts again.

Cards using marbleized red construction paper

I cut out a piece of my marbleized construction paper and painted the edges with gold acrylic paint.

I painted watered down black acrylic over the gold to give it an antique look. I cut out two pieces of yellow cardstock, a bar to go across the card and a smaller piece for the thank you tag. I decorated the bar with red markers and wrote thank you on the tag. I painted the edges on both bar and tag with gold acrylic paint. I wrapped yellow embroidery floss around the bar. I glued bar and tag to the card using tacky glue, then added bows I made from the yellow floss.

front

back

On the second card, I decided to make the card from the construction paper. I glued some shapes from cardstock onto the front of the card, and then painted them. Then I painted around the shapes. I taped white cardstock on the inside of the card using double sided tape. 

I love this card, but I’m not sure what I will use it for.

Marbleize paper using spray paint

I found a wonderful tutorial on marbleize paper on AlisaBurke’s redefine creativity website.

It looked like fun so I thought I would give it a try.

I used a small kitty litter tray I no longer use for my water tray. 

 I could only find three cans of spray paint.

I brought out some red construction paper, a couple pieces of watercolor paper and some white cardstock. Following the directions, I sprayed the paint into the water and swirled it up with a stick

I had gold, black and blue, but the blue did not work and the black was old and gunky.  I decided I liked the gunky paint; it left a strange vainy pattern.

This is the cardstock.

This is the watercolor paper.

  The red construction paper looked good, the rest of the paper needed help. I used watercolor to apply a thin color wash to the other papers.

I liked how my paper turned out, but if I try this technique again I will use a bigger tray for my water and more varieties of new spray-paint. Maybe I can find samples of spray paint that would be perfect.