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.

Quick and Easy Technique

Today I'm going to show you a quick and easy technique to use on any page or card. Below is a sample where I used it on a card for Father's Day.

Start with the paper of your choice. Flip it over so you are looking at the back. If you use a zero centering ruler you can line it all the way against the edge and use the holes in your ruler as your guide. If you are using a regular ruler, space them 1/2 inch apart and 1/2 inch in from the edge.

Punch holes over your marked area.Use a craft knife to cut 2 parallel slits from each hole to the edge of the paper.

When your done cutting the slits across, it should look like this.

Turn it back over to show the front side. You can use it just like that or ink across the page to add that aged look.

Your quick and easy handmade technique is finished.

Here is a page I created using the same technique.

Pink Paislee Pop Fashion page layout

I was eager to use that Pop Fashion paper from Pink Paislee, but with three boys I don't get to use much pink. Then, I remembered these pictures that have just been waiting for some pink.

I cut the small frames out of the transparency because the photos I was working with did not fit.

I adherred it to the paper at an angle then flipped it over and trimmed off the excess.

I love those silvery metallic rub-ons, so I started adding them. They are not kidding when they call these press-ons. Light rubbing is all that is needed and they tranfer easily.

In this close-up you can see how silvery the clear overlay is that I trimmed down. It was a full 12x12 sheet. I'll probably use the rest on the page that will go across from this one in my album.

I took a bright pink felt flower and added stickles for dimension.
I punched out a scalloped circle from the remains of pink pink cardstock and ran it through the Sizzix big Shot in the Cuttlebug embossing folder, then inked it to layer under the felt flower.

I used the Cricut to cut out this butterfly accent from the Storybook cartridge.

Then curled the wings around a Tombow Marker and added small self adhesive pearls to the center of the butterfly.

The butterfly doesn't show up very well in the photo of the layout, but it's there.

Prima 6x6 clear paintables and alcohol inks

For our NSD make-n-take project, we used Prima 6x6 Clear Paintables. We painted them with alcohol inks, a blender pen, and white acrylic paint.

Below is a page layout I used one on.

For those of you that couldn't attend the event, I've included step by step directions .

The clear Paintables come on a 12x12 sheet with 4 different patterns that can be cut into 6x6 squares.

We used a clear acrylic sheet as our ink pallet. You can use any non-porous surface. Select the alcohol ink colors you would like to use and add a drop or 2 of each color in different spots.

Fill an H2O brush with alcohol blending solution. (Once you use blending solution in the brush you cannot use it as a water brush, so make sure you mark it to know the difference.)

Start by placing your 6x6 paintable on top of a white piece of scrap paper. This will allow you to see what the colors will look like on your page.

The alcohol ink will dry very fast, but the solution in the brush will reactivate it. Use the brush to pick up the color you want and begin painting.

Another great thing to remember is you can wipe the brush clean and go over any spots you want to clean up, it will easily remove the ink.

After you finish painting the front, turn your paintable over so you are looking at the back side. Use white acrylic paint to cover all of your colored areas. Make sure you stay inside the lines, otherwise you will see white paint on the front side.

Melanie and I were so busy running around on Saturday that Carol E. painted this one for Melanie to use on her page. Didn't it turn out great?

Thanks Carol.

In this layout, Nancy used one of the clear paintables and she didn't paint white acrylic on the back, that way the frame was translucent so that you can still the design of the background paper through the painted image.

Make Your Own Accents

Here's a technique you can do at home. We will be using a hot glue gun to get creative. With a few easy steps you can customize your colors to fit the project your making. .In the layout below you can see a side border and my flower centers were created this way.

Start with a hot glue gun and a craft or Splat mat (heat resistant). Make drops of glue, any size you need, and let them dry. Don't worry about the strings of glue, you can tear them off after the glue dries.Next, put a couple of dried glue dots in a baggie and add a few drops of alcohol ink (you waste less if you work in the corner of the bag). Shimmerz paints also work great to paint these little droplets.

When your ready to attach them you can either use Zots or reactivate the hot glue by touching the back of your dot with the metal tip of your glue gun (if you choose this one, work fast before the glue dries again.)

Below you can see I used the same technique on a card that I made.