Friday, May 8, 2015

Oahu Blue ~ Mixed Media Tissue Paper Background

     I just LOVE the gorgeous teals and blues in this photo that my sister took of the Hawaiian coast! It gave me the perfect opportunity to get messy with my stamps and sprays.




This month's color challenge at Lindy's Stamp Gang really sets the mood for this photo.



     I started this page by stamping the Script Background onto cream tissue paper using permanent black ink. Ranger's Archival Jet Black Ink works great, and is what I used!  Then I tore it into strips and used a spray adhesive to apply it to cream cardstock.  Next I used the Texturized Stencil from TCW with some gesso. 


     Once the gesso dried, I sprayed the whole background with some Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays. Starting at the bottom of the page, I used Clam Bake Beige and Treasure Island Aqua. Then working my up I used Tiffany's Blue, Delphinium Turquoise, Tibetan Poppy Teal, and Cotton Candy Pink on top. I wish you could see all of the beautiful shimmer that these sprays leave!



     For my design inspiration I used sketch #138 from Sketchabilities!


   All of the papers are some older Tim Holtz (Lost and Found), and the Heidi Swapp tags were a RAK from my friend Lisa. Thanks Lisa! Although they already had the misted look on them, I added some more Lindy's sprays to give them some shimmer. I used the Reinforcers stamp on the tags, embossing them with Lindy's Stamp Gang Midnight Pewter Embossing Powder. I also embossed the Fern Fronds and distressing around the photo with the Background Soup stamp set, all from Red Rubber Designs. You can really see the awesome texture that the Lindy's embossing powder leaves on these Alpha Thickers that I used to spell Oahu. I also used Thickers (Rainboots) to spell "blue" applying (Stream) Alcohol Ink to them. 



Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!




12 comments:

  1. nice project!!! thanks for join us at sketchabilities

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  2. beautiful background ! it looks like sand ! thank you for playing with us at Lindy's Stamp Gang !

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  3. great layout with beautiful background :) thanks for playing with us at Sketchabilities

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  4. Beautiful work! I love how the background almost looks like sand! Thanks so much for joining the Lindy's Stamp Gang Challenge!

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  5. Great background and lovely details! Thank You for playing with us at Lindy's Stamp Gang Color Challenge this month!

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  6. what a beautiful layout, love all the details,thank you for joining in with us over at Sketchabilities

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  7. Love the background you've created here very inspirational every single detail is gorgeous!! Thank you so much for playing with us this month at the Lindy's Stamp Gang blog & good luck hugs Amy xox

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  8. Oh so fabulous Andrea!!! The background you created is simply fabulous! You have used the colors beautifully! Thank you for joining us at Lindys for this months Color Challenge!

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  9. oh Hawaii is my dream)))) so great take of the sketch! thank you for playing along with us at Sketchabilities!

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  10. I love the background with the tissue paper! Great work!Thank you for joining our challenge at Lindy's Stamp Gang!

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