Thursday, October 6, 2016

CORRUGATED LAYERED ATC'S

This class utilises the thicker corrugated cardboard as the background and then other chipboard layers are added on top of this.  Each piece is painted with black gesso (or black acrylic paint if you don't have black gesso) and then assembled.  To attach the chipboard or laser-cut pieces you can use gel medium, glossy accents, good quality double-sided tape if your piece allows for it or as in the case with the wrought iron fence below, staples!  Then a white spray is used, either Dylusions White Linen or Ranger Distress Spray Stain Picket Fence and either while wet or allow to dry, add additional colours.  I've tried to stick to only one other colour or at the most two as these pieces are atc's (2-1/2" x 3-1/2" in size), you can easily muddy the colours if you use too many.  Then other embellishments, wording etc are added.  A bit of a fiddly technique but I love the dimension of these atc's!

"Unpleasant Dreams"...

"Fragile"...

Gardeners"...

"Seeker"...

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