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Paper Peeling
Technique
Demonstrated by Kelly Shults
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Supplies:
- Glue, Modge-Podge (my personal favorite), or Gel Medium
- A surface for your background: (canvas, altered book
pages, heavy-duty cardstock, watercolor paper, etc)
- Papers to cover your background surface: (sheet
music, maps, newspapers, text, dress patterns, etc.)
- Masking Tape or any low tack tape
- Ink Pads or Acrylic Paint (watered down)
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Optional Supplies: Clear embossing ink pad, metallic embossing powder,
acrylic paints, watercolors, glazes, Luminere paints, and Walnut ink.
- Stipple Brush or old/cheap paint brush
** Note:
For this demonstration, I am using heavy cardstock as my background
surface.
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Step 1:
- Take your paper and tear it into pieces.
(As you can see in the preview, I used pages from a book to cover
my background surface.)
- Begin to randomly glue the pieces to your background
surface, overlapping them as you go. Take care not to get glue on the
top of the paper.
- After you finish completely covering the background
surface, let the glue dry for a few minutes.
- Trim away excess paper.
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Step
2:
- Take strips of masking tape and apply randomly to
your page.
- Use a bone folder or your finger to burnish the
tape, to make sure it sticks well.
- Begin to pull up tape.
- Pull the tape in all different
directions. You will be pulling up layers of paper,
allowing the lower layers of overlapped paper to become visible.
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- This is how the background surface looks once all
the tape has been pulled up.
- You can also pull up and scratch away some of the
loose pieces of paper for even more distressing.
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Step 3:
- Take your stipple brush or old paint brush and pounce the bristles
into an ink pad to pick up color and stipple the color all over the
page.
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Now
take a complimentary or contrasting color of ink and do the
same. You can also directly apply the ink pad over
the raised surfaces.
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On this sample, I used several different colors of ink for an
aged effect.
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You
aren’t limited to inks! Experiment this technique with acrylic paints,
watercolors, glazes, Luminere paints, Walnut ink, Coffee or Tea
staining, etc. |
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Here is a variation of this technique:
I used torn up sheet music and book pages to cover my
background surface.
I used a couple of different shades of blue acrylic paint
washes (watered down), instead of ink pads.
I applied a clear embossing pad directly to the paper and
sprinkled silver embossing powder and melted with my heat gun.
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