Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Playing with tissue paper

Lately I have been in love with tissue paper... I just love how it adds texture to the background of a canvas. When I discovered tissue paper with images on it, such as these from 7Gypsies, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. But sometimes I don't like images to be all over the canvas - then I found this technique in Art Journaling magazine.

It was so simple I can't believe I hadn't thought of it before.... take just normal, plain old tissue paper and stamp your own images onto it. LOVE it! So here is what I did:


And here is what it ended up looking like:


I just love how it turned out and I can see me doing it a lot more. In fact, at my last crafty get together with some friends, I borrowed all their stamps and went crazy on the tissue paper I had. :)

This canvas is for sale on my facebook page. If you aren't on Facebook, just leave me a comment on this post and I can get back to you.

Thanks for stopping by! If you do have a go at using this technique, link me up with a pic of the finished product. :)

2 comments:

Cathy {tinniegirl} said...

That's an awesome technique. I love the result you achieved. I used to play with tissue paper a bit. I don't so much anymore, but it does do great things to a canvas in terms of texture.

Lena said...

Love that idea! I often use serviettes (separated into layers) for building up layers in my art journal pages. Will try stamping on the 2 white bottom ply that beg for a technique like this ;)