Glue Resist Backgrounds

This is the second background technique in Trish's 2008 Background Noise Sketchbook Challenge. In making my journal page I cut off 2" squares of the backgrounds I made. I still have a good sized portion of each background to use for ATCs, tags & other uses.

I used tacky glue for both techniques, because that is what I had in the house. I followed Trish's advise and made lots of messy backgrounds. The two pictures below are of technique #1. Pour white glue over matte card stock and using a plastic card, spread the glue around, then use one cut up edge of the plastic card to create texture. I found with the tacky glue, I needed to wait a couple of minutes after spreading the glue before creating the texture. Otherwise the glue just ran back together. Better add that note to my journal page!

I was too impatient to wait overnight for them to dry. After 5 hours, I ran Color Box Chalk inks over the glued surface, they were just a little tacky. My red fingers added extra color to the last blue card I colored.

The next day, I decided they needed a little something more, so I sprayed them with either Radiant Rain Shimmering Mists, or homemade mists I had created. This gave them a little shimmer, they don't show well in these pictures, but I can see the difference.

The following pictures are of technique #2. Squeeze the white glue bottle over matte card stock to create random patterns. I did a couple random, but also had fun doing deliberate patterns. I have a hard time doing random. I did let these dry overnight.

It was recommended we use pigment inks to color these, because pigment inks easily wipe off the dried glue, giving the "resist" look. On a couple of the backgrounds I used Color Box chalks, and used Brilliance inks on the rest. I really like how the metallic Brilliance colors looked on this technique.