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Twinkling H20's & Salt Background
I love the Twinkling H20 watercolor paints - they dress up anything you use them on with their shimmer!
Materials:
- Glossy Paper
- Stamp
- Brilliance ink pad (or pad that works on glossy paper)
- Twinkling H20 watercolor paints
- Pickling Salt
- Water mister
Instructions:
Protect your work surface. I like to use Ranger's non-stick craft sheet.
Take a large paint brush & put some water in each paint pot you are planning to use. Mix with brush so you have some paint ready to use.
Lightly mist the glossy paper.
Paint your glossy paper. I used 3 colors and painted stripes here but you can do whatever you like!
Paints will be running together. If yours aren't you can mist it again. You want it to be wet!
Sprinkle salt on paper. Try to keep paper flat so paint doesn't all run off. If an area looks too dry mist it again.
Once paint has dried gently brush off salt. You can speed drying with a heat gun or leave for a few hours until dry.
Pickling salt makes great backgrounds with Ranger Color Wash Sprays & Walnut Ink Sprays as well.
Stamp your image. I used Brilliance ink which works on glossy paper since my paper was originally glossy. It's possible you can use a regular ink pad once the it's painted (I'll have to try this!).
I stamped Inkadinkadoo's Botanical Script with graphite black Brilliance ink.
Your background paper is ready to use in a project like my Botanical Script card.
There's lots of ways to use these backgrounds:
- Cards
- Cut into small shapes & stamp letters or small images2
- Cut 2.5 x 3.5" and make an ATC
- Use in an altered project
- Matte pictures for scrapbook layouts
I did a few more backgrounds using the Twinkling H20's and either glossy or matte white cardstock. Numbered from left to right, top to bottom:
- 1. Light green, pale yellow & brown/orange on glossy paper. This scan didn't come through well but it is quite light - I think I watered the paint down too much. I'm not sure what happened on the lower left side but looks like there are strips that the paint ran off of - looks kind of cool I think! I did 4 blocks of color here - 2 yellow & one of each other color.
- 2. I used the same 3 colors here on glossy paper but made them thicker and did squiggly lines. The squiggly lines didn't come out much different than the straight lines above.
- 3. Used matte paper and orange, yellow & light brown paints. The color soaks into the matte paper. Misting first doesn't help either since it just soaks in. I've used shipping tags but maybe they have a shiney enough finish it works. These aren't terrible but you don't get the colors running together like you do on the glossy paper.
- 4. Used matte paper and teal, pink & yellow paint. These have a shinier finish than on the glossy paper but that doesn't show up in the scan.
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