Susan has a fantastic tutorial of
this technique on her blog. It sounded like a great way to use up the little bits of color sprays I have in mini misters. I laid watercolor paper on an old plastic tablecloth outside and sprayed a mixture of yellows and orange sprays some that have perfect pearls added to them. These are sprays I mixed up for earlier projects, and am not sure what is in each bottle. LOL
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The instructions were to have a generous layer of watercolor sprays over the paper, it didn't seem really wet to me, so I sprayed on some water. The colors were very intense, so the water didn't make them too washed out, but did blend the colors together.
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Next, I placed a large piece of plastic wrap over the paper and pressed it into the paper and let it dry.
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Next I sprayed a contrasting color (here green) directly onto the used plastic wrap and re laid it over the paper and let it dry.
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Here is the finished sheet. Susan said we could over stamp at this stage, but I'll wait until I have a specific project to work on as these papers are large 9" x 12" and will later be cut down into smaller pieces.
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For the second sheet, I used the rest of the blue and purple sprays I had in mini misters, some had perfect pearls in them. It wasn't very wet, and was fairly concentrated color, so I sprayed water of the paper and laid on the plastic wrap.
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When it dried, I lightly sprayed gold radiant rain on the used plastic wrap and relaid it on the paper.
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Here's the finished sheet:
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This one was a mixture of red & orange sprays, some with perfect pearls in them.
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I sprayed full strength purple on the used plastic wrap and placed it over paper.
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Here's the finished sheet:
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For the last one, I sprayed on some the yellows and little bit of green I had in mini misters, some with perfect pearls added. To add more color, I sprayed on full strength green Adirondack sprays and then sprayed on some water to spread the concentrated greens around a bit.
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When it dried, I sprayed the darker green Adirondack spray on the used plastic wrap and laid it over the paper.
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Here's the finished sheet:
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These were lots of fun. A great way to use up ends of sprays. I like having the perfect pearls added to the sprays for the shimmering look.
2 comments:
Carol, these are outstanding! They'll look absolutely gorgeous when you cut them up! Surprisingly (to me!) the green/yello and the purples are my faves!!
I love them all. I love the blue & purple the best though :) I'll try this because I love it so much!
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