Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Need A Tissue?

This month’s GPP Street Team Crusade is painting tissue paper.  March has been crazy – busy with work and making cards for others – so I just started this month’s project yesterday.  I was ready to throw in the towel on this one and get an early start on next month’s, but I really wanted to try the technique.  I’m glad I did because it was so much fun.

First, I choose a white piece of tissue and an orange-red piece.  Both were stolen from school nothing fancy.  Sometimes when I try a new technique I throw everything I’ve got into and go big.  This time, for some reason, I used small sheets to start.  I painted gesso over each piece.  Usually I skip this step because when I finally get a chance to work, I hate waiting for it to dry before I can get started.  However, this time I did use it since the tissue paper is pretty weak otherwise.

It was a dry and windy day, so the gesso actually dried pretty quickly.  I was able to start the painting later that afternoon.

Since there was some orange showing through the gesso, I used a warm color palette on that one and cool colors on the white piece. 

I dry brushed and stamped.  I tried to create texture with the end of my brush and by painting some weaved paper and pressing it on the tissue paper.

After drying over night, the journals were created the next day.  I had numerous ideas but the small sheets of paper limited me. 

The warm sheet was so bright and cheery.  It just made me happy which was the direction I took with that paper.  I stamped the letters onto the tissue paper, punched some circles, and used the remaining paper as a free form shape.  The picture was cut out of Vanity Fair a few months ago and I’ve been dying to use it.  Being that this is journaling I always feel the need to write all over my pages.  My plan was to write over the free form shape, but in the end, I just couldn’t do it.  The colors were just too pretty.  I used silver gel and wrote on the dancers.

For the second page, I cut out squares of the tissue and used them to frame the page that I had prepared in purple, green, and blue dry brush.  I then began to doodle on each square.  At first, I used my regular, fine tip doodle pen, but the colors were too dark and it didn’t show up.  I then used a thicker sharpie marker in order to see the doodles.  I don’t love it because it was hard for me to work small with the larger pen.  Overall though, I think it’s pretty.

I loved working with the tissue paper!  What a fun technique.
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17 comments:

  1. Kimberly - glad you found the time to try this. Looks like you had fun! I appreciate all the in process photos and your detailed descriptions. Wasn't it a cool thing to layer on that painted tissue? Terrific pages, thanks for sharing!!

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  2. That is so cool; they came out amazing!

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  3. I love that! I really need to get my creativity on...I feel like I am missing something with out it.

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  4. Creativity just makes me so happy. Any and all forms : )
    Beautiful!

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  5. wonderful pages! I agree about your warm colors page...beautiful :D

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  6. Beautiful Job!
    I have no creativity whatsoever. Where can I buy some of that? To mask my lack of talent, I pretend that I'm so busy with household stuff that I don't have time for anything else. But that's a secret between just you and me if you don't mind. See you soon. Your Friend, m.

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  7. I want to come over next time and have some art therapy with you. I'll even be quiet!

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  8. Your pages are great! Thank you for the step-by-step. You've inspired me to finish mine, I am down to the wire-ha!

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  9. i like what you did with this technique! Great to see you could squeeze it in this month! Do share some of your card designs as well!

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  10. This is so fun! I love all the photos! Sure looks like you had lots of fun with it!

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  11. I really liked both pages, the are both great.

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  12. I love it! Both of them look great, but the orangey one is my favorite.

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  13. I thing both pages rock - your doodles on the last one is awesome! and you absolutely don't have to write on every page, some pages are just perfect as they are!

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  14. Great layouts! Love the orange tissue.

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