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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Scrapbook Saturday - Mixed Media Layout



Today I´m going to take you trough the process of building a mixed media style scrapbooking page by using pieces from the Soft Summer Nesting Components kit together with Paper Wings stamps.


I started off my project by applying thin gesso over a plain cardstock. This makes the cardstock stif and more resistant to water. I use a spatula to spread the gesso and don´t mind if it gets uneaven. Most of the time I use a heat gun to speed the drying process.


When the gesso and cardstock are completely dry it´s time for the fun part - paint, ink and stamps! First of all I spray water over the cardstock (on both sides). This keeps it from bending to much when applying ink. I ramdomly sprayed on mist in different colors, after drying I started stamping randomly with the background stamps from Paper Wings. Before the stamping ink was dry, I added more water to get a watercolor effect. You can see how wet it was before drying on the last picture above.


When I felt happy with my background I left it to dry again. When dry I started adding more stamped details as well as cut out paper details. I sort of build my pages step by step. First a bit of ink, then some stamps, a bit more ink, some paper pieces, more stamps etc. You get it. After some more drying (it takes a while to create a page like this one....) I started to add my decorations. 


I love how the wings turned out on the page!



And this is what the finished page looks like. Hope you enjoyed my step by step!

Inky waves from Marie Johansson.




4 comments:

  1. Beautiful layout and great tips! I was just telling Carrie that I wondered how those beautiful mixed media layouts are created. Every time I try, my paper warps a lot so I appreciate you sharing your tips on keeping it flatter. Take care!

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  2. Stunning LO Marie! You've really showcased those fantastic stamps so very well! Love ur colour palette too! Thanks for sharing ur tips too :)

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  3. Beautiful layout Marie!!! Love all the layers you used!! Thank you for sharing your process with us!! I never thought to spray the back of my cardboard!! Great tip!!

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  4. Gorgeous, love the fun bright colors and the background is amazing!

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