Friday, August 26, 2011

Still doing!

I have had a busy week with some moments of feeling overwhelmed and its all great cos I am ahead of myself on my Affirmation ABC schedule. Once again, lets hear it for Paint Party Friday I  now have enough base papers as you can see - I need to make some more blue ones which I hope to get started today.

The stages to here are many. First cut base paper to size, then wet and scrunch the rice paper, matt varnish the base paper, then smooth wet rice paper out onto varnish and pat gently into place with paper towel. Dry. Then paint with wet acrylics. Dry. Iron the back of the paper having sprayed it with water first. Then paint a design on with a slightly stronger wet acrylic (some of them are too patterned and some not patterned enough in my opinion.) Dry. Iron  back again. Scribble on to colour  with carefully chosen oil pastels. Varnish with matt varnish. Cut backing paper away and voila! And, the great thing about it is I love doing every process, even the ironing, which I never do with my clothes!

 A couple of the stages.





I  was going to show you a picture of the backing colours, but I am still doing them.

There is still loads of work.  Lots and  lots and lots of letters to cut out, lots and lots of working out the best colour combinations (I have already changed the colour combo of the  rhino and Tiger) and  lots and  lots and lots of gluing. I know I should really just do a few pages and send it off to see if anyone is interested in printing it but I really want a finished project so am just going to finish it and then see.
Found another great photo site. It's called pixdaus. The photos don't seem to be copy written but am writing to each photographer, asking to use their image. Hope to get some replies soon.


30 comments:

  1. That sounds like a lot of work hun. they look wonderful. Dxx

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  2. Great results, and very interesting techniques! Valerie

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  3. That's a whole process! Man, you have patience. :) But the result is wonderful and worth it. Love how colorful it is.

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  4. Such a detailed process - you have more patience than me as I always just want to start right in without having to spend time preparing materials! Great job so far - I love all the coloured papers.

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  5. Wow sounds like a big process but fun all the way! Thanks for telling us how you do them!!! Happy PPF! Deb

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  6. What a great photo of all your pages. I had no idea the process was so intensive. Makes it that much more impressive that you are ahead of schedule.

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  7. This looks like you had fun!!! Great things will come from all of this hard work! hee - i don't like ironing, either! happy ppf!

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  8. Wooooow! I hadn´t realized the huge amount of working process the papers had! How did you learn it? Sounds really cool.
    Beautiful papers, so vibrant and colourful.

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  9. Looks like you have been busy with these gorgeous papers! :-)

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  10. how fun...love all of the beautiful papers...look forward to seeing the creations that emerge! Happy PPF! POP ART MINIS

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  11. Awesome papers and yes the process sounds very time consuming ~ You must love to do the work!
    namaste, Carol Happy PPF (Share the Creative Journey)

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  12. Great to see your process! Beautiful papers.

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  13. Oh My! I never knew there were so many steps to creating your wonderful affirmation art! Very cool. Thanks for showing how you create your work. Happy PPF! :-)

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  14. What an interesting process! Love how they look. Happy creating & PPF! Theresa

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  15. Oh these are totally wonderful!!!!
    what fun to have all these papers!!!

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  16. Wow - such a detailed process - thank you for sharing it with us... I love the variety of color!

    I'm looking forward to seeing more pages...

    xo
    Kristin

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  17. What a beautiful rainbow of papers!

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  18. These are great!!! I love the idea of making your own paper. I have been thinking about it for a long time. I have a lot of paper in my work and it makes it so much more personal in your work. Thanks for sharing that!

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  19. Thanks for sharing the journey, I already loved your affirmation art, but I now I love it even more knowing all the steps you go through to create it!
    Happy PPF!
    Stephanie

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  20. I like that shiney circle of preeeeetty papers! So colorful and happy and waiting for you to create wonderful things out of them! HAPPY PPF!

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  21. Yoo Hooo Rosie !
    Wonderful colors great work you are doing !
    KAT Griffin

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  22. bautiful papers!!! happy PPF and weekend too!!!

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  23. Very cool and love all the different designs. I've never played around with rice paper. Might have to do that soon! :)

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  24. I love all the bright, pretty colors. But what a process - wow! The results are fab & all that work is well worth it. :)

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  25. Thanks for sharing the process! Look forward to the end results!! Good job!

    Hugs Giggles

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  26. Wow, looks like great fun... happy PPF

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  27. can't wait to see the final project! Looks like a very detailed process.

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  28. sounds like a labor of love, they are all very beautiful and such happy colors. I can't wait to see what you do with them :) Happy PPF!

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  29. Absolute gorgeous colors - they are so beautifully bright. I they were mine I probably couldn't wait to get started on them. Fabulous.

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  30. Thank you for showing the process, they all look wonderful and well worth the hard work. Happy PPF, Annette x

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