Today I am sharing with you a technique for using up all those left over pieces of tissue paper that you had left over after doing the tissue paper bleeding technique earlier.

I wanted to use the tissue paper pieces to add both colour and a texture to recycled cardboard so this is what I came up with.

1. To begin you will need some cardboard taken from boxes, if you lightly peel off from the corner of the cardboard you will reveal a little of the corrugated board underneath.

How much corrugation you reveal depends what you plan on using it for, if you want to stamp on it then you need to keep some of the backing intact so you have a flat area to stamp on.

If like me your just going to use it as a mounting board then you can peel off and remove most of the backing.

2. Once you have your corrugated cardboard you need to squirt a dollop of clear drying glue (e.g. pva) and an equal amount of white gesso onto the board.

3. Next squirt some water over the top of the glue and gesso and then paint the mixture across the entire board.

4. Working quickly so that the mixture doesn’t have chance to dry start placing random pieces of tissue paper across the corrugated board.

5. Use your brush to press the tissue paper into the grooves of the corrugated board.

6. If you find the glue/gesso & water mixture starts to dry add more so that you can paint a light coat over the top of the tissue.

7. Continue until the entire board is covered with tissue, if you overlap the pieces you will add a nice texture. Once you are happy with how it looks, set it aside to dry.

Once it’s dried you’ll notice because you have used a 50/50 mixture of glue and gesso that the layer of white is actually a lot more transparent than what it would be normally thus giving the textured tissue paper a kind of shabby chic effect.

These boards are ideal for mounting handmade cards, tags, artwork or even quotes onto and cost nothing to make!

You can add further layers of paint if you wish by highlighting the corrugated ridges with ink or paint.

Here are my corrugated shabby chic tissue paper panels plus a couple of close ups below:

The following board has been painted along the ridges and edges with black paint to add more texture and distress:

This technique also works well on flat surfaces too, here are 2 tags backgrounds I created:

This is what the tags looked like after I distressed them with ink:

Below is a sneaky peek of a project I made with the boards, I’ll share that on my main blog shortly:

I hope you enjoy playing with this technique, more technique make overs coming soon!

Trish Bee
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I’m having so much fun with the tissue paper bleeding technique and I can’t stop! Don’t worry though as I am moving onto Caught In Crystal Technique soon so you can have a break

Today I’m showing you my fabtastic paper flowers that I dyed using this technique, here they are below, no explanation really necessary as I followed the instructions in my tutorial for making backgrounds!

Don’t they look cool? My favourite part about them was the gorgeous background they created on the paper which was revealed after I’d removed the flowers:

Neat huh?

Incase the above pictures aren’t enough here’s a another to share:

I will be sharing another technique with tissue paper this weekend, this time using the actual left over tissue paper from the bleeding technique. Watch this space!

Trish Bee
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Continuing on with my Tissue Paper Bleeding Theme I am going to share with you an easy peasy technique for making your own printed washi/masking tape!

It is very easy to create, here are the photographic 3 steps!

Step 1: Take a non-stick work sheet (teflon cooking liners also work) and peel off strips of masking tape and stick them onto the surface like so:

Step 2: Spray the masking tape with water, completely cover with tissue paper and then place a sheet of card over the top and leave it to dry overnight. When you come to remove the tissue papers your masking tape will look something like this:

Step 3: Use a sheet of card as a mask to protect the individual strips of tape and stamp random designs directly onto the colourful tape:

Now you have some unique printed masking tape to use in your art projects!

I haven’t used mine yet, and yes it still remained sticky despite all that water I sprayed on it!

Close Up:

When I said I wanted to go back to the beginning and revisit older techniques, I didn’t realise how far back I’d end up going! It must be at least 2 decades since I last played with this technique, it’s shocking how much time flies!

Tissue Paper bleeding is a fantastic way of creating multicolour backgrounds, what I love about it best of all is that its totally random and you have no real control over the end result. It’s like waiting for magic to happen!

To kick us off with this technique I’m going to first go through the original version of the technique and then at the end I’m going to add my Technique Make Over Tips.

Traditional Method

Items Required For This Technique:

• Coloured Tissue Paper –

For this technique you need the cheap coloured tissue paper, don’t buy the acid free varieties because they are bleed proof. I bought mine from the children’s craft aisle, the brand is graphix, it comes in very bright vibrant colours.

Before I began I tore a big box full of tissue paper in a variety of sizes so that I had pieces to grab and go with when I was experimenting with this technique.

• Spray Bottle Of Water –

The other item you’ll need is a spray bottle full of water, you can use the garden type sprayers as you want to be generous with the water application.

• Several Sheets Of White Card Stock –

It doesn’t really matter what type or colour of card stock or paper you use; obviously white is going to give you the better results but there is no rules which state you have to use white, you could even use patterned scrapbook paper.

How To Create –

1. Generously spray water all over your card stock.

2. Working quickly layer a variety of coloured tissue paper pieces across the card surface.

For best results: make sure you keep overlapping the tissue papers and keep adding a mist of water over the top as you work, the more water you add the better the colour bleeds from the tissue paper.

At this point it will look something like this:

3. Once you’ve covered the card with tissue paper, take another sheet of plain white card and place it directly over the top of the wet tissue paper to create a sandwich.

4. Run your fingertips across the back of the card to press them together then set it aside to dry.

The longer you leave it to dry the better the colour bleed results.

I checked after 4 hours and was happy with the results, but for most of the backgrounds I left it to air dry naturally overnight.

5. Once the background is dry, separate your card sandwich and collect all the tissue papers together to use in a future project (I have one to share with you!)

Because you created a card sandwich you will end up with not one, but 2 beautiful colourful watercolour backgrounds!

Each background is unique, you can make up a stash in one session to use in future projects.

Here are a couple of mine :

Make Over Tips For Tissue Paper Bleeding Technique:

• Tissue Paper Shapes Watercolour:

Cut shapes from tissue paper for a themed background, for example hearts or circles:

Before:

After:

• Die Cut Ghosting Effect:

Place die cuts onto the card stock before you layer with tissue paper to create both a shaped ghosted area within your finished background and also a gain watercolour die cut shape afterwards!

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After:

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More die cut backgrounds:

• Stencil Ghosting Tissue Paper Background Technique:

Use your stencils to create a ghosted white out area in your background, the beauty of this is that you can create both a positive and negative effect from the stencils!

Simply spray the card with water first, layer stencils over the top, spray more water and then layer over your tissue paper.

Make sure you cover the entire design, use your fingertips to poke the tissue into the smaller areas of the design.

Before Tissue:

With Tissue Paper:

Background Result:

Another Stencil Background:

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• White Vinegar Tissue Paper Bleeding:

Instead of using water on your background you can use distilled white vinegar, this results in a more vibrant colour bleed effect as you can see from the background samples below:

• Tissue Paper Bleeding With Doileys:

You can dye paper doileys (and anything else made from paper for that matter!) using this technique as you can see from the examples below:

Background created with the doileys:

• Crumpled Tissue Paper Bleeding Backgrounds:

If you completely wet the sheet of card stock it allows you to crumple the sheet very easily, just keep spraying water over the top until your happy with the crumpled effect.

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After:

More Make Over Tips Coming Soon!

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Share Your Creations!

If you have been inspired to create backgrounds or art work using this technique why not link up your creations using the linky tool below: