The challenge this month from Michelle Ward’s GPP Street Team Crusade 38 is to paint tissue paper with gesso and acrylic while you are doing the same on your journal pages, then apply the tissue paper layers.
I admit I did three spreads before I got one I liked. The first two just didn’t look like [...]
Remember last month when I did my first GPP Street team challenge and tried to cut snowflakes? That was a disaster. This month the crusade is to create a journal page (actually I think it said spread, but I misread it and only did a page) with X’s and O’s. Here is my page. I’m [...]
There are several crackle products available and art and craft stores. The one I use is by Plaid.
The first step is to paint your page. You will need two colors for the crackle to show up. The bottom coat is what will show up through the cracks of the top color. I painted the first [...]
Just before I decided to focus on art to sell rather than more e-products, I had started writing a book on creating art journal backgrounds. I’ve decided to share these techniques with my readers as tutorials. Here is the first one using cut-out letters on your background.
Cut out letters
Materials needed:
• magazines
• letter stencils or die-cut [...]
