Here is my first page done with one of the lovely kits from Scraps of Darkness! I've been oogling their kits for a few years now, and my fantastical husband got me a subscription for my birthday this year. What a guy!
That background was simply black with white script, but I decided I wanted a little zing! To get the texture and color, I used strips of bleeding art tissue paper. Instead of wetting the paper and peeling off, I painted on some matte gel, and stuck the tissue to it, being sure to crease and crunch the paper as I went. At that point, the colors were too bright for my taste, so I decided to dirty them up. I used some Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Chipped Sapphire to darken and pick up the wrinkles.
The little piece going up the side is the same technique, done on a different paper, this time black with a flor-de-lis pattern.
After that, I did some more inking and distressing, and I cut up some doilies and used some Picket Fence White Distress Stain to stamp on some text. I think the happy colors matched my little man's happy expression.
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