Book Study - Pulled Paper

 On NGS group, we're doing a study of Darlene Olivia McElroy & Sandra Duran Wilson's book "Surface Treatment workshop" This week we're looking at the section "Pulled Paper".
 Start with painting your surface as desired. Using a paint brush or palette knife apply a thin layer of soft gel medium to the surface.

 Lay down newsprint or an ink-jet image down and burnish with a bone folder. Let set for 30 seconds. A shorter time, the ink might not transfer, a much longer time and the paper will adhere and not lift off.

 Lift the paper off, now that the image will appear in the reverse of what's printed. This looks nice and grungy.

 Here's a background I left the paper down too long and could not lift off the paper.

 Painted over the paper with gold Lumiere paint and heat set to get the bubbly texture and speed the drying process.

 Applied a thin layer of soft gel medium, burnished down a sheet of music. Happy to see the ink transferred.

 Here's another one I did with a music sheet over paper painted with pearl white Lumiere paint.

The authors state than this technique can be done with many layers and a variety of images. Lots of fun experimenting can be done.

Christmas ATCs V

 The first one uses a Foxy Oxi background.

This one has a glimmering rainbows background.

This background is enameled foil.

These last two use the ink spots alcohol ink backgrounds.

Christmas ATCs IV

 The first two atcs use the heated oil pastels backgrounds.

This one has a plaster gauze shape added.

 This one uses a luminous paste background.

 This one uses the Garden Walk technique. At the time, I was frustrated that my backgrounds didn't resemble the ones in the book at all. But I think this background is perfect for this atc.

 This one uses a flashing or ventilation tape background.

Christmas ATCs III

 This first ATC was made with black & white gessos.The golden triangle was made with plaster gauze.

This background used a gesso resist technique.

 The next two were done with stencil techniques. This one is acylic paint and a stencil over an old worksheet.

 This one uses foil and a stencil over same old worksheet (different part). The wing was made with plaster gauze.

This one uses aluminum foil  over a texture plate.

Christmas ATC II

 The first three ATCs were made with the plastic wrap backgrounds.

This one also has the plaster gauze as faux encaustic.

 These last three have techniques from the metal leaf techniques.

Trees ATC

 The theme this month is "Trees". Started with some paste paper I made several years ago. Cut into 2-1/2" x 3-1/" bases.

Embossed tree image with white embossing powder. Colored the edges with a copper metal leafing pen. Added a white ribbon with copper brads and wrote in the letters L I F E in the circles of the ribbon.

Christmas ATC I

 Using up some of the backgrounds I made this past year. The first four are from the Sponge Rollers and Art Foam techniques.

 This one was made with the torn masking tape technique.