Sunday, September 1, 2013

Working with Vellum

I spent quite a bit of time working with vellum for a swap.  I wanted to use a technique where ink/paint on the backside of vellum is heated until it "pops" and becomes textured. I don't have a heat gun but I thought my hair dryer would be hot enough.  Perhaps not, or perhaps I had the wrong type of ink or vellum.  What I call vellum does not wrinkle up when it is wet as some descriptions say.


Vellum Nursery series:
(or did I title them "baby shower 1 and 2"?)
The trick seems to be attaching the vellum. For the bears, I glued white paper behind the inked shape so that the background would not show through.  One needs to remember which side was stamped, as the adhesive can smear ink

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