Creating Texture

If there is one thing that I walked away with after taking Christy's SheArt Workshop, it was a renewed love for creating texture in my layouts. Recently, I have been a lazy scrapper. I haven't gotten my fingers dirty in a LONG LONG time. But Christy's workshop reminded me just how much I love things such as bubblewrap and punchinella and paint and texturizers...and these don't have to exclusively be used on canvases or paintings....you can use all of these fabulous, around the house, found items on your layouts, TODAY!

I used some large bubble wrap that I found laying underneath my scrap table (yes,  my scraproom is a total pile right now!) to stamp on my layout with gesso:

 
I used gesso because I like the nice thick texture of it. But I wanted to add a little bit of color over the top of those beautiful white circles, so I dabbed a little bit of Liquitex Liquid Ink in Cadmium Yellow Light Hue onto a paper towel and lightly wiped it over the top.

You may have noticed just how cute and darling the cardboard shapes in your March Kits were. I loved them but wanted to add a little va-va-va-voom to them. So I chose 2 butterflies, one medium sized and one small. I painted the medium sided butterfly with my white gesso but being careful to leave bits of that lovely cardboard texture and color peeking through. The small butterfly I painted using Liquitex Liquid Ink in Cerulean Blue (can you tell I loooove this ink yet?) let it dry, then lightly dry brushed some white paint on the ridges of the cardboard to add some more texture and depth of color. A quick swipe around the edges of both butterflies with the Liquitex Cadmium Yellow, helped tie the elements to the page.

 

And it is amazing what a few swipes of paint across a layout will do to add visual interest and even more texture to your layouts. It doesn't get any easier than that??  A few zips of a pen to add some "fake stitching" and anchor the layout together.. and you have a pretty texture rich layout and guess what....some dirty fingers to match!!!!

 

Take a shot at any of these easy steps to adding paint texture to your layouts and come back and share your results with us. We love to see how and what YOU create!

 

Comments

[lori jolley]

I love this Dena! I love the circles and the swipes of color - I love everything about it - I think I will be scraplifting your ideas from this one!!

[christy tomlinson]

um I REALLY LOVE THIS!!! lol