The cover on this journal is made with Yupo watercolor paper. Hand stitched it onto a layer of illustration board. The butterflies (from Somerset Studio magazine freebie insert) were applied using the image transfer technique. The letters forming "Journal" were cut with the alphabet die cut on my cuttlebug on label sheets. Once cut I peeled off the paper and pressed them down at random then painted over the entire Yupo paper surface.The heart I cut from mylar just by hand then ran through one of the embossing folders on my cuttlebug. It will act as a bookmark. Thanks for reading!
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Sandra, I'm curious!! How'd you get anything to stick to the Yupo? I've tried watercolors on them and you can wash it off and it's also very fragile and can easily be scratched. Did you treat it somehow? Love what you've done with it!
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Hi Diane! From what I can recall I mixed Golden's Fluid Acrylic Paint with Golden's Polymer Medium or Golden's Matte Medium. The intensity of the colors don't seem to be weakened and it sticks on good. Give it a try. You won't need much; 1 drop of paint to 1 tsp Golden's medium to the journal size yupo paper.
ReplyDeleteThey now have cuttlebug cuts outs for cake making they are so cute it almost made me want to start baking cakes !!! NAAAA I think will stick with mixed media less fattening
ReplyDeleteAnother beautiful book and I like the heart bookmark, what a special touch.
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ReplyDeleteSherry, if you have trouble leaving a comment try using Google's CHROME browser. It will always work. Sometimes I can't even leave a comment on my own blog using Firefox so I just switch over to Chrome to leave the comment(s). Sandra