Here's February's calendar. As you see, I used one of the papers I created at the marbling class I took last year.
A bit of brightness for winter days.
Here's February's calendar. As you see, I used one of the papers I created at the marbling class I took last year.
A bit of brightness for winter days.
Last year I attended a workshop on marbling paper taught by the amazing Brittani Locke (The Soft Asylum), sponsored by the School for Bookbinding Arts and the National Sporting Library and Museum.
I'd seen marbled endpapers in old books and understood the basic concept of laying paper onto pigments that are floating on a liquid. But until this class it seemed to be one of those arcane arts that required knowledge out of the reach of mere mortals.
How wrong I was!
We learned about patterns, size - a solution of water and carrageenan that allows the paint to float on the top - and how to treat the paper so it accepts the paint without it washing away.
Our first pattern was Stone, a basic one that you can build on to be more complex. Stone is drops of paint flicked onto the surface of the size. I chose yellow, green, black, white, and black and learned for myself the lesson that the colors are much brighter on the paper than they appear on the size.
A new year, a great time to branch out with new techniques to be more creative.
Instead of using printed designer paper, I painted the background in shades of pale blues and greens metallic watercolors. The shimmer of the paint doesn't show up in the photograph.
I was able to stamp the calendar using inks of similar colors, Lost Lagoon and Blueberry Bushel (both from Stampin' Up!).