WATERCOLOUR BOOKLET

This technique will be run over two classes as there are 7 atc's to be made as well as a folded booklet that's made from an A4 sheet of paper.  We are using only one colour of Ranger Distress Ink Pad (shock, horror.... how can you choose only ONE colour!!!) and a metallic acrylic paint, I used Ranger Distress Paint in Brushed Pewter for my samples.  The idea behind this booklet is to let the sentiment (or word stamp) be the focal point with a 2nd focal point being your image stamp.  I love how simple and clean these look and can just see this being made as a birthday booklet for someone.  My first example has Rusty Hinge as the only colour and Brushed Pewter (silver) as the metallic accent colour.  Of course you'll need a Ranger Archival Black Ink Pad to do the stamping.

 

Here's the booklet completed...

 

 

Front Cover ...

 

Inside pages 2 & 3 ...

 

Inside pages 4 & 5...

 

Inside pages 6 & 7...



Single atc...

 

These next two are two individual ones for my next booklet.  This

colour is "Peacock Feathers" and I've used the Brushed Pewter

Distress Paint again as a contrast metallic.
 

 

These last 3 are from the previous Rinse Aid class.  LOVE Canvas Pad Paper.

"Too fast"...

 

"Heart sing"...

"Fairy whispers... 



RINSE AID RESIST... RE-VISITED

Rinse Aid Resist is a technique that I first learned about from Claudine Hellmuth's Collage Discovery Workshop Book and I last taught a class using this technique in 2007 and then again in 2010 so I figured it was time to touch on it again.  Here's a link to the previous blog posts about it.  This time I have tried using the Ranger Distress Paints with the dishwashing Rinse Aid and it still works great with these paints!  Last time I was using Jo Sonja Acrylic Paints or any other normal acrylic paint that had been watered down to create a more runny consistency to create the resist effect.   The Distress Paints work just fine with this technique and I've found using baby wipes to remove the dried paint on the Rinse Aid works the best to show up the lighter areas.  Here are the first 3 samples from this technique.

 

"Now what"...

 

"Blood Night"...

 

"Day-dreamer"...

 

These last two atc's are from my previous class  -  Gesso Stencil Spray Stains.

 

"Happiness"...

 

"Soul"...

 

More samples to come from the Rinse Aid Resist class and hopefully I'll have my cover done for this book in the next fortnight too!