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Even earlier this week but since so many of us are cyber-cropping, here's something else to play with.
I'm blending 2 lessons together again since they're similar. I skipped the Nev'r Dull (my lungs can't take the chemicals!).
Phone book paper -
This is just so easy - glue your page from the phone book onto your ATC. Coat it with a mix of acrylic paint & glazing medium (again, use what you have!). Remove exess with a baby wipe. Apply a second color for depth. Dry well (I hate that part). Decorate (fun part).

Tissue paper - Christy helped us with this technique at ReCreate in October - use gel medium to adhere tissue paper to your card. Add more layers and the crumplier the better . Paint over the top layer - this is when you can smush down any air bubbles. Decorate!

Phone book paper - used an ad for an exterminator which made me think of spiders and halloween. Almost added some green to make it qualify for Christy's challenge

Just used these two techinques to start some art journal backgrounds. Thanks for posting these this am.

Way to go! Seems like once I have a background, it's easy from there.

Pam-- I am using the phone book BG for RA RRATCs. Such fun. I may use the tissue paper technique for the second set.
Love your SPOOKY bug ATC.

wwwwaaaahhhhhhh i dont have a phone book. i can definately give the tissue paper one a go though. i'm so glad you posted this one! just this morning i moved a piece of tissue paper on my dresser and thought....now why was i saving this? i remember it was for a specific technique.

oops forgot to add....
FANTASTIC job pam! love the creepy bugs with the ad. perfect!

I had to scrounge for a phone book - we rarely use one. Not that I can read them which means I'd have to go scrounging for reading glasses.
If you don't have a phone book, use copy from any type of ad or catalog to see what you can come up with.

good idea! i have tons of japanese ads laying around here. i'm sure when they pack our things they are going to wonder why i have all these "papers".

I'm glad you said that, Pam and Michelle. DH got a package from Hong Kong yesterday. Once I saw the newspaper padding and the pretty stamps with birds on, I ran off with that stuff! and I was thinking of this challenge.

Maybe I can try these tomorrow. I'm kinda at a stand still for the rest of the day.

Very cool! Definitely in my 'try it next' pile..

Cool - thanks for sharing - I have some old phone books laying around - may have to try this on some ATC's.

Diana

We had just gotten some phone books - don't know if they were kept or not but I'll go searching. May just have to get that BB book one of these days.

here is the tissue paper technique--I used it for a 2 page spread in someone's art journal