Here is another of the mini albums that went to Hochanda in March. This is layered up with lace and paint to create a shabby vintage look.
Process steps
1. Take the mini boards and using matte medium some lace onto the outer covers. Let dry naturally or speed the process up with a heat gun.
2. Add a fine layer of texture sand paste in the gaps between each row of lace and again dry.
3. Take the cover boards and the page inserts and paint everything with a coat of white gesso on both sides.
4. When everything is bone dry sand the edges and any rough spots then use a natural sponge to blend over a neutral palette of media acrylic paints mixing the colours on the project spritzing and blending them together with a babywipe as you go. Dry each layer before adding another. I used burnt umber, titanium white and titan buff.
5. Because I wanted the next layer of watery paint to seep into the recesses and not into the lace I gave the covers a couple of coats of matte medium. When they were dry I dipped and spritzed the washes over them then took some time to add the colours directly into the recesses with a small brush heat drying as I went.
6. Now came the time to add embellishments to the front cover…..
7. …. and to add some collages to each of the pages and some uplifting words.
