Embroidered Collage

Time for another round of decorating paper.  This time I expanded on last year's efforts with printfoam, craft acrylics, and colored card-stock.  I made four printing plates, instead of two, just drawing with the wrong end of a paintbrush.

I used a pack of 12x12 cardstock in shades of blue, light green, and cream.  I bought craft acrylics in a couple shades of blue and a couple shades of cream.  I applied the paint to the printfoam printing plate with a wide foam sponge brush. It took a few tries to get the right amount on.  In a number of pages that first print is very blurred.  The second night I printed over the sheets again, generally, although not always, with a different pattern.

I liked my results and reserved a few of them for myself.  But I added another step to the pages I was contributing to the swap.  I used my Art Stix, the Prismacolor colored pencils in stick form, to add circles or waves or shading to each page.  Some still look oceanic and some just look interesting.  I'm very happy with them.  25 pages down and only 5 more to go.