One of the YouTube presentations I viewed recently demonstrated decorating newspaper to make background papers. The artist mentioned packing paper. Since I had saved a long strip, I smoothed it out and gessoed most of the length of it. Next, I used a wide flat brush to paint the outer edges with pink acrylic paint. The center, I painted with yellow. Last, I added brush strokes of turquoise blue. I loved it as it was, but there was more to do.
I spritzed water over the paint, took a textured paper towel, and blotted off the excess water. That left light areas where I intended to rubber stamp some images.
Something unexpected happened while I was brushing the paint onto the paper. I started to sort of lean into it, going with the flow, enjoying the process. A feeling of well-being settled over me. It was almost like a relaxant. Not to the point of falling asleep, no. But that good feeling lasted several hours after my art session. It reminded me that ART IS GOOD FOR YOU.
I tried rubbing my turquoise ink pad over a swirls stencil, but not much ink came through onto the paper. Then I flipped the stencil over to clean the ink off with a baby wipe. As the ink spread into the spaces of the stencil, I got the result I wanted after all. So I changed my approach. I put the stencil down on the background paper, pressed a scrunched-up wet wipe into the ink pad, and used it to dab the ink.
Next, I used pink ink over a flowers stencil. I'm thinking that this technique is more controlled and maybe (?) less messy than spraying ink over a stencil.
I rubbed gold ink randomly over a circles stencil, finishing with black inked roller stamp and a script block stamp.
Finding afterwards that the long sheet of paper had folds, I cut along the fold lines to make smaller sections after I finished stamping.
I might gesso the backs to add support to the thin brown paper, and then fold the six pieces to make mailing envelopes. We'll see.
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