Playing with Pigment Powders for Paper Artsy!

A very late entry to Paper Artsy for this Pigment Color challenge.....




















I continue to love working with texture pastes and gels after exploring these for Paper Artsy recently.  After reading Astrid's recent post about saving our bees, I played around some Ken Oliver Color Bursts, thinking I would try to achieve some crackle by mixing some powdered pigment into the crackle medium.

I first mixed a bit of gold Primary Elements mica powder into matte medium and applied through a Tim Holtz honeycomb stencil, and then applied the altered crackle medium.  I then applied metallic gold acrylic paint, and it was immediately clear that the crackle was not happening, although the Color Burst background is pretty. I added some gold metallic acrylic paint, but still no crackle. I like the glow I got when I heavily diluted the paint. But still, not a go.  I forgot an earlier experimentt mixing some type of pigment with crackle paste, which also failed to get the crackle!

So, back to square one, and forget about the crackle!  I had swiped the leftover gold mica homemade paste onto a tag so not to waste it....

when this dried, I ran it through a wrinkled distress technique with Wild Honey, Seedless Preserves and Ground Espresso Distress Inks - applying these to my craft sheet,spritzing with a bit of water, and swiping the tag through.  When dry, I sprayed with some Heidi Swapp gold spray.  Loved what resulted!

And it looked like to moon to me.... so I decided to try some other versions - here with black mica.

After the black mica version dried, I added some stars by stenciling with Wendy Vecchi gold embossing paste,

And once the stars were dry, I swiped the tag through Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Dried Marigold Distress Inks using the wrinkle free distress technique, as with the previous tag.  Once dry, I spritzed with Heidi Swapp gold spray.

I made one more version, this time using copper Primary Elements with Wendy Vecchi translucent texture paste:

which, when dry, I spritzed with Iced Spruce and Wild Honey....

and then when dry, spritzed with Smooch sprays in yellows and browns, though these do not show in the photos.  Once done, I cut the tags to eliminate the hole, and placed on a journal page - phases of the moon.

I am sharing this at the latest Paper Artsy challenge, Mixed Media World Autumn Colors, and We Love To Create "Anything Mixed Media, and

Thanks so much for stopping by, and please do leave a comment - I always love to hear what you think!  xx Lynn