One Little Craft Tag Challenge #72

On watercolor paper tag, create a background with distress paints and the Acrylic Paint Smooshing Technique.  Let dry.  Stamp the background, image and sentiment (Unity) with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Doodle around images with a pigment pen.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #59

Dot Distress paint in three colors on a vintage french piece of text page.  Let dry.  Stamp sentiment on a spare piece of vintage page.  Tear and highlight the edge with distress paint in Seedless Perserves.  Let dry and adhere to tag.  Adhere sticker to base of tag. 

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #29

On a watercolor tag, create a background with distress paint using the Acrylic Paint Smooshing Technique and let dry.  Stamp all images with Archival Ink Jet Black.  The figure and the background stamp are from Unity Stamp Company and the numbers are from Amy Tangerine.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #25

On a vintage dictionary page create a background with Distress Paint and Acrylic Paint Smooshing Technique.  Let dry and then adhere to a chipboard tag.  Stamp the sentiment with letter stamps and Archival Ink Jet Black.  On watercolor paper, create colorful paper with Ken Oliver Color Bursts and let dry.  Die cut stars for the color bursts paper and adhere to the tag.  Emphasis with Stabilo All Pencil. 

Panpastels to the rescue

Every create a background then realize that it's just to bright to be a background that it will take over the entire piece?  Yes I've done it once or twice myself. One way to fix it is to some how cover it with a white or buff color. For this card, I started off with that problem but I used panpastel in white and a stencil to push the painted piece into the background

Ingredients

Acrylic Paints (Distress Paints)

Non-stick Craft Sheet

Spray bottle with Water

Watercolor Paper (Canson Mixed Mefia)

Panpastel (White)*

Sponge Applicator

Stencil

Stamps (Tim Holtz)

Stamp Pad (Archival Ink Jet Black) 

Pitt Pen

Adhesive (ATG)

Washi Tape

Card Base

Steps

1. Apply acrylic paint to craft sheet making sure that the color do not touch each other to decrease over blending. Spray with water. 

2. Lay watercolor paper on top of paint. Smoosh around just a little bit. Pick up paper and if more paint is desired repeat this step. If there is any paint let spray with water and repeat on a different piece of watercolor for additional backgrounds. 

3.  After watercolor piece is dry. Apply panpastel* over the paint using a stencil and a sponge applicator.  

4.  Stamp images with archival ink. Doodle around age with pitt pen. 

5.  Using adhesive apply panel to card base. Place pieces of tone washi tape around edges as desired. 

* I found Panpastels work best due to the binder in the formula. But you can use any chalk or pastel but you will not get the vibrancy of Panpastels and will have to use something like a fixative or hairspray to bind it. 

 

On this altered book page background, I did the opposite. I thought the background was to pale and flat so applied panpastel in a purple color and a doily stencil.