Playing with paint

We had a techniques class last Saturday called playing with paint. We wanted to show some fun ways to include paint on your pages and customize your colors.

Here are four different layouts using the same sketch.

Created By: Vicki H.

Created By: Teresa N.

Created By: Melanie H.

This is the layout I created as a sample for the class.Here's how to do it:

Start with a white piece of cardstock, non-stick craft mat, paint (whatever colors you chose), and a brayer. Tear the white piece of cardstock to about a 9x9 size. Put a few drops of each color on that piece.

Use your brayer to roll the paint up and down on your page.Then add a few more drops of paint and roll across the the page from side to side. Then set the wet cardstock aside to dry.Next you will need some bubble wrap, double sided tape, scissors, and a brayer. Measure the width of your brayer and cut the bubble wrap to fit. Put a couple small pieces of double sided tape on the roller, wrap the bubble wrap and cut away the extra so it is not over lapping.Put the paint color of your choice(I used white) on a scrap piece of paper or craft mat and roll the brayer in the paint.As you roll across your page you can see it adding a textured look.Then take it across the painted piece of cardstock you started with, to bring the layout together.Next take a scrap piece of cardstock, curl it around a pencil and release it. That wll give you a spiral shape to dip in the paint and stamp on your page. A few other things we did with the paint, but I do not have photos of are:

Edge the pictures in white paint.

Use a scrap piece of cardstock, dip the edge in paint and create our journaling lines.

Dip a brush in the paint and flick it off across the title(a tooth brush works great for this also).

Have fun creating with paint. I can't wait to see some more pages.