Sheryl's deco: Faux Batik Technique (sometimes called Faux Bleach)

My friend Carol asked about a deco page I'd done. I forgot to scan the back page of this one, but here's the front.

This is one version of this background technique. There are many out there. Here, I stamped ivory card stock with embossing ink using an ornate stamp. I embossed using detail clear embossing powder. When cool, I washed it with a very light wash of Twinkling H20s in blues, greens and purples.

When dry, I placed a blank piece of newsprint over and ironed off the embossed powder. The result is a great resist effect.

I wanted to know what would happen layering more ink and another stamp over that, so I tried it and got a different but really cool resist there. I used Fluid Chalk ink in a purple called Wisteria.

The woman w/numbers is from Diva Stamp Impressions and she was stamped on a scrap of paper that had been treated with Color Mists. I keep lots of brightly colored scraps around me (in large piles, if truth be known) and there's almost always something that is just the thing for whatever I'm working on.

This is is Sheryl's deco on the AV group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Art-Venture/

And as a a bonus: "Faux Batik Technique" is fun to say!

Chrissy's Deco for Art Venture

On a beautiful early fall day, I took my stinky Radiant Rain spray watercolors (love them, don't like the way they smell) outside and had a day spraying over leaves and ferns (thanks to Susan Chong for her inspiration on this) onto various hand-painted papers and plain watercolor paper. The pages I did for Chrissy's art venture used just a small stash of many papers I made that day. She likes nature themes.

Art Venture decos

And these are pages from Carol C's and Carol S's decos on the Art Venture group.

Love these little collages

I've probably said this already, but I'm having the best time working in the decos for the swap on NGS. I find these small collages great "block busters." I've been continuing to feel creatively stymied on some of my bigger projects, but these small collages help keep the creative juices at least flowing. Here are two sets I finished last night.

The pink/orange/green set uses Color Mists, various inks and stamps and an acetate overlay. Though you can't tell on the purple set, the left-hand panel is embossed and has a really nice sheen to it. The right-hand side actually has a tag with fibers and a starfish charm inserted into it.