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This is my second project adapted from Stephanie Ackerman’s Doodle Too Class (a class that totally rocks my socks off, btw). I made four houses to represent each place John and I have lived in over the course of our marriage. I will show you how I added text, and provide you a printable of the phrase. I am not going to show you the details of the process creating the scene, because I want you to take Stephanie’s class for that. In general, you just Mod Podge shapes cut from scrapbook paper onto a background created with acrylic paint.
Once your background is fairly complete, at least having the main elements in place, scan it into your computer, open in Photoshop and play with various fonts and phrases. When you are happy with your text, print it and transfer to the original background as shown. You can print my text below to use for your piece if you would like. Just right click it to pull up the full res version and print that.
This is what my text looked like over the scanned image. I turned off the background layer of my art and printed just the black text on white paper for the transfer.
The Ott light is super helpful and awesome for transferring text and for seeing what the heck is going on in my mixed media art!
Pitt Artist pen, size small
Pen-touch White Pen
After I was happy with the text and the outlining of my shapes, I applied a coat of my favorite Mod Podge ever. It is an antique finish and it is so cool. I use to glaze my final pieces to pull the layers together with an antique tone. Then when that dried I would seal. Now I do it in one step with Mod Podge antique, and it turns out exactly how I love it. Thank you Plaid!
