Hey bloggers Rita Barakat here!
The kids are back in school (yay!) and already I am thinking
The kids are back in school (yay!) and already I am thinking
what am I going to do with all that artwork? After all
"Every Artist was first and amatuer!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So I came up with a mini album!
How about taking a picture of your budding artist
How about taking a picture of your budding artist
and filling the pages with pictures if their beautiful artwork?
This would also make a wonderful gift item for the granparents!
Of course I had to decorate mine, (but you could let the kids do it)
I will add their pictures as I get them!
I used this album is the 8 inch circle album from Clear Scraps.
You already know that you adhere lots of different papers to acrylic
but did you know that you can use lots of
different mediums to
color acrylic if you use gesso first?
color acrylic if you use gesso first?
Paint it on or use an old gift card.
The trick is you must let it dry completly!
Then you can paint, mist, stencil whatever –
and it looks really cool!
(If I do say so myself.)
(If I do say so myself.)
Did I mention I like purples?
I also used texture paste and a stencil directly on the acrylic (without gesso).
What you are looking at is a clear page with
the stenciled frame and words. (see below.)
Hint* I used cut up words and had the same saying on the back- the trick is
on the back of the word "the" is the word "in" and the back of the word
"in" is the word "the".
Covering the entire page with gesso allowed me to
play with all types of techniques.
I think these will be great backgrounds for my budding artists!
Your turn!
Clear Scraps Project Post 
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