Using Texture

One of the facebook groups I belong to has all kinds of exchanges. Some are happy mail where you mail to your partner things that fit the monthly theme and some we make specific things to send like ATC's, journals, journal pages or in this case tags.. One of the upcoming exchanges is for textured tags. I have never really played around with texture much. I never really THOUGHT about it. So I went and got myself some modeling paste, dug out some stencils, chip board, matte medium and other assorted items and got to it. How hard could it be right? I am here to tell you that it is highly addictive. Like chips, you can't have just one.

The best thing that I discovered about texture is how you can manipulate color! ;I had Gelatos ( I just adore the Faber Castell Gelatos BTW ), iridescent medium, acrylics, stamp dyes you name it and I probably tried it. Here is a sampling of the final products.

This on had chipboard hearts and jewels.  The background texture was made by layering modeling paste on the tag and pressing another tag on top and then pulling them apart.

The texture on this one was made using a circular piece of plastic canvas. and the images are from some napkins I had

napkins again over top of corrugated cardboard and a chipboard butterfly

Stenciled modeling paste with inkagold highlighting the raised parts.

napkins again this is the "other side" of the two I pressed together.  I added more modeling paste and pressed corrugated cardboard into it.

that circular plastic canvas again and a jar lid

napkins and stenciled paste background

I don't think the pictures actually do this much justice. I am really pleased.I am listing some of the products that I used below. Have fun!