Recently there has been a huge interest in card making. Card making is a hobby that can cover a wide range of different crafting techniques.
The use of acrylic paints in card making will add another cost effective and interesting option to the materials you can use in the final card. If you already have a range of acrylic paints you’ll be able to use these paints to enhance your card making materials.
A popular style of card making uses layers of different papers to give the final card more interest and/or extra height.
Paint Your Own for a Perfect Match
You can paint your own backing paper to suit the other materials you wish to use in your card.
The simplest way is to apply a wash of colour or colours to some pre-stretched paper. Let the paper dry, remove the paper from the pad and cut it to the size you want to use for your background paper.
One effective method is to dampen the paper with a spray bottle of water and drip on the colours you wish to use – letting the colours spread and blend together. This can be subtle or dramatic depending on your choice of colours.
Use Salt for a Textured Effect
A variation on this method is to sprinkle on some salt after applying the colours. Leave the paper to dry, and then brush off the salt. The final result will have a lovely speckled, textured effect.
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