Painted Papers II

HEY EVERYBODY!!!

I'm back!

Finally, I know.

It's been a while. 

And I've missed it, I really have. 

I've just been really busy with school and volleyball stuff.

And busy planning for NaNoWriMo.

But more on that later. 

It's just good to be back after being gone. 

It feels like longer than just a few days though.

Today was actually my first time doing anything with paint in about a week, so that was good for me too. 

I was basically just playing around with papers and stuff.

Making up some new techniques.

And working on some stuff for my Layering tutorial. :)

So yeah. The page above is probably one of my favorites.

Basically to make it was pretty simple. 

I took a plain sheet of printer paper and a white crayon.

And then, using the crayon I drew hearts over the whole thing.

I made some watercolors and went over then whole thing with a light pink.

The crayon resisted the paint.

Then I used a darker pink wherever the hearts were. 

I love it.

This one used pretty much the same technique.

But I used another color.

And I drew a different shape.

In the last one I did some basic hearts.

And in this one I did some Traci Bautista inspired doodle flowers. 

If you've ever seen Traci's work, you'll know what I'm talking about.

If you haven't seen her stuff, you really should look her up.

She's an art journaling genius.

Really.

Here are some index cards that I was playing around on.

I love the size. 

They're just so small.

And cute.

So yeah. I'm not going to describe the techniques I used on these cards,

Because if I did, then I'd be up all night.

Because, if the truth be told, I really don't know.

I was just messing around, and I used several different techniques per card.

I was just trying to develop some ideas.

If you know what I mean.

This is a dyed paper towel that I did real quick to use up some leftover washes I had.

I didn't want to be wasteful.

Yet I didn't really want to do anymore washes either. 

I basically just took a paper towel and folded it up.

Then I folded that in half.

I dipped one end in blue dye.

And the opposite end in a black one.

I really like the way this one turned out.

The white stripes are the white of the paper towel showing through.

This is going to be fun to use.

And last, but definitely not least, we have a paper that I made using a homemade stamp.

You can see it above.

The little flower doodle into foam.

How cute.

I made this paper, and even though I love the way it turned out, I have no idea how I got that effect.

I wish I could remember. I'll have to do some experimenting to find out.

All in all I think I did seventeen papers. 

Cool, huh?

Anyways.

Like I said in the beginning, I haven't been around much because of NaNoWriMo.

I did it last year. 

It's basically a challenge to write a 50k novel in the month of November.

And I've been planning. 

Planning like crazy.

Doing the plot, and the scenes, and trying to layer the story.

Yeah. I think this is going to go well.

Collage Fodder Pages

Hey guys!!

I'm back, and this time with some collage fodder-ish pages.

Ha. 

You guys are such enablers.

Thanks to Kerri and Dede, I ended up making about 12 paper for Dede's paper swap she's been hosting.

You basically just make a bunch of papers in an 8 1/2 x 11" size, and send them to her. 

Then she swaps them out.

You can probably contact her on her blog for details I suppose.

Anyways, I had a lot of fun doing them so please;

DON'T STOP ENABLING ME!!

:D

But to be serious, I did have a lot of fun on these pages.

They encouraged me to play and mess around and just have some all around fun.

I did some color scrapings, some magazine pages, some scrap material pages (tutorial MAY be coming soon) and some monoprints.

Monoprints are seriously my new favorite thing to do.

Link to any tutorials you know of in the comments if you would.

I would literally be eternally grateful.

Ha. 

Now we're in the Toy Story movie.

Anyways. 

Here's a second batch that I was working on.

I think that they all turned out pretty cool.

One of the ones in the first photo I actually have posted on here before, but I decided to post it again.

I used all kinds of paper too. 

I used copy paper, cardstock, lined filler paper, paper from a dictionary, and photo paper.

The ones above show the cardstock, filler paper, and copy paper.

The others I'm going to save for another day.

I did a bit of experimenting with different techniques on some pieces from a dictionary;

I have a little dictionary that I bought from Goodwill to tear up for pages.

I know it seems bad at first.

Especially for me.

I'm a book lover at heart, so to tear the pages out of one almost killed me.

But it's like anything else.

It gets easier with practice. :P

Just kidding.

But seriously though.

It's not so bad after a while. 

And the results are totally worth it, in my honest opinion.

Though I don't know how much my opinion means to you guys.

But it matters to me so...

Yeah.

That's all I've got for you guys today, but I'll see you tomorrow!

Bye!