Saturday, July 13, 2013

Just Us Girls Technique Challenge!

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t's Saturday and time for another Just Us Girls Challenge!  This week with your technique challenge.  Check out this VIDEO HERE.  With just a little gesso or white paint you can tone down your inked, painted or stained surface for a subtle look.  


Here is what I came up with:



Inks and Sprays I used

Light Gesso added:







Thanks for stopping by!  I've been on a roll with creating these 8 1/2 x 11 pages.  Here is a snapshot of a bunch of them:


It's fun just making backgrounds and playing with different mediums.


Be sure to swing on by the Just Us Girls Design Team to see what they did for this great challenge!

How to play: Please copy and use our graphic on your post. You need to upload your new project [no back dating please for this week's challenge to your online blog or to a public photo gallery. Leave a link that goes directly to your project in the Linky Tools form at the bottom of the JUGS post. If you upload to online galleries, please use the keyword or tag, JUGS197. After you post to Linky Tools you may also leave a comment here.


Deadline to be considered for the "Chic of the Week" is 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, July 18th. The   Linky Tools form will close at that time. Our top pick, "Chic of the Week", will be announced on the following Friday morning. Thanks for playing with us this week!

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Maria







4 comments:

Vicki Dutcher said...

This was a fun, fun technique! I adore mixed media and ALL your bg sheets are so ready for use. I bet that was fun to make all of them -- Great job picking this for the challenge!

Lisa Kind said...

What a great technique and I love your results! And those babies are adorable! Your other papers look fab too!

Anonymous said...

LOVE those pages! I am so glad you chose this technique, I had such a blast with it! I even went to HL this morning to stock up on some new goodies (Gesso, etc.)

Nancy said...

You were busy...love all the other pages you made and this one is fabulous. I have been scrappin this summer and you gave me a great idea to incorporate this technique there! Great page and thanks again for the fun!!

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