Happy Wednesday and welcome to the blog! Today we have Linda with a beautiful mixed media collage piece. Don't you just love all those stitched layers and the cute tea bag labels she included?! Watch the video to see how Linda prepared her papers and created the collage with them.
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Hello there, this is Linda!
It’s “For the love of colour” this month and I want to show how I add colour and marks to various pale coloured surfaces. I love how tea beautifully makes marks on used tea bags and every tea creates a different colour. And what about the great effect white and black ink marks have on recycled craft paper.
On this collage project I wanted to try out a new product. I’ve had it for a while, but never used it. It’s Lutradur – a non-woven stabilizer. I used two different kinds I wanted to try. I had a great Gelli® print left over from my first project with BMMAC and wanted to use it for this project.
I scanned it and then printed it on to the thickest kind of Lutradur 100g. The thinner variant I covered with a thin layer of gel medium before stamping on it. Not sure if I had to do it, but I did. The vintage photo is scanned and then printed on a sheet of canvas, I then glued it down with gel medium and added colour to it with Oil pastels.
There where so many different processes here so it was easier for me to take pictures during the process and then make a video with text and pictures. I hope you like it and of course any feedback or questions are welcome.
The collage is mounted to a black background. I thought it looked better than on a white background. It made the colours and texture pop. Love the text on the hanging teabag labels so I used them as they were.
The paper behind the photo is a paper I used to clean of the brayer when creating collage paper for another project.
Here you can see the stitches and how I coloured the photo with oil pastels.
Here you can see the 3 layers of the heart in three different materials and colours.
Love the colour of the used teabags and it looks great with the pink and purple.
Products used for this project:
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