 Hello everybody, okay, so now, yeah, I am Gonna try to convince you to save yet another piece of trash. I know I'm crazy So I was watching a recent video On Pali Patti Pali Parish's channel It was a recording from one of her use streams where she's working on a collage and making some ATC cards And she had some mulberry paper. There are some lace patterned like mulberry papers that are really pretty There are some that are grid patterns or some that are really abstracted and there's this one that has kind of these swirly patterns in it and I Remember I remembered I actually don't have any of that paper and I'm out of it And I would like more and then I thought oh, I really probably shouldn't spend any money I wonder if I can make something that'll work. So this is what I came up with and The nice thing about this is you can this you can tear these just like you do the mulberry paper and have this nice like raw edge and They'll collage onto a painted background So you can collage them onto a painted background. This is a painting paper. I got from my friend Cindy udder and I would recommend I'm gonna show you how I make these I would recommend that you leave yourself enough room to Like tear and fray the edges This is made out of trash and craft paint You can glue it on. I'm just gonna use a matte medium but you could use deco posh or The mulberry papers are nice and they're beautiful and if you have them use them, but they're expensive This is cheaper Because it was made With just stuff I had now you could if you don't care about the like fibrous quality of this you could use Like tissue paper and if you want it to be more transparent How cool is that? You could paint on top of it. You can do I really love it All right, so this is how I made it and here's what worked and what didn't So the first time I tried it. I used golden fluid acrylics now I know you're all thinking okay. Those are really expensive. I don't have any of those Okay, that's fine because they didn't even work the way. I thought they would I got this as a result, which is fine, but is very It's And I'll use it and I like the way it looks but it wasn't what I was shooting for I was really looking for Something with thinner lines that wouldn't spread out so much like this one So this is how the fluid acrylic looked And then I decided to try craft paint and these are how these turned out. This was much better craft paint has a consistency of like a soft yogurt So if you're using a fine tip bottle like these then it works fine You don't have to add any water to it or anything I recommend you don't use anything thicker than that because you won't get you'll have trouble getting it Out of the bottle and if you use thinner like fluid acrylics, then it's going to be too watery And you're going to get something that looks more like this, but maybe that's what you want. I don't know You'll have to experiment and try where the base is for these are dryer sheets So I do recommend Like this one in this one. I Didn't iron first. I know iron a dryer sheet. Yes. You have to iron them It's really hard to get a nice pattern on there if it's not ironed and it's wrinkly straight out of the dryer So use a low to medium setting on your iron and just give it a quick once over so it's nice and flat and Then take you can do white. You can do your favorite color as you see I did some in turquoise. These are deco art Americana craft paints and for the turquoise one I mixed some blue grass green with a little bit of aqua sky and the white one is white wash and You could do a grid. You could do these swirls. You could do any pattern Give it a little shake and then don't touch the bottle to the dryer sheet. Just hold it above Whoopsie. I'm out of paint Because I use that one too much. Let's try the white and Just make a pattern with your paint and then let it dry and now I'm doing this on top of a non-stick craft sheet I'll let it dry for two or three hours and it won't be completely dry But it'll be dry enough that I can actually hang it up and once you hang it up and you have air flow going through both sides And it dries faster So that's it a really fun easy way to make fun collage embellishments for your journal or your painting papers out of trash Dryer sheets something you would normally throw away. 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