Plaid and a painty peek!

I have been getting inky and painty lately, come to think of it lots of my layouts recently have major portions to them that are in the artistic realm.  No real surprise I guess but they seem to gather in clumps 🙂  This week I am tackling plaid in my layout for Get It Scrapped and my first instinct was to create my own. I love using a wide Copic marker to create my own plaid pattern.  This particular plaid turned out very subtle and suited the layout just right.

 

Lori 8 by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: cardstock; American Crafts and Bazzill Basics, ink; Copic, Washi tape; Lil’ Bee, letters; American Crafts, stick pen, star and ribbon; unknown

To create the plaid I used a wide Copic marker.  I then touched a darker sketch marker to the wide tip in 2 spots, holding it there to transfer color onto the wide tip.  (this does not ruin the tips!  Copics are great this way!)

I then pulled the wide marker across the page once or twice.   I added the darker color onto the wide marker again and then pulled a few more times.  I continued the process until I had completed the area I wanted to cover going horizontally.

 I repeated the entire process going perpendicularly over the original set of lines.  The example I have uses a different color going into the vertical lines.

In my layout I used the plaid as a base for my layout.  The pictures were not spectacular but very representative of our quiet birthdays, so the plaid added a little pizzaz!  I LOVE the plaid variations in the article check them out HERE

A week from today I have the second class in my Mixed Media series starting.  We are getting painty!  We will be looking at 4 famous painters and using their techniques to learn painting styles we can use on our mixed media crafting projects.  Here is a peek!

Happy Thursday!