Painted Papers

This week instead of painting flowers or faces I painted background papers to use for greetings cards. I started with brown grocery bag paper, soaked it, scrunched it, soaked it and scrunched it again. After flattening it out  I applied various shimmery and bright colored acrylic paints. I used a brayer lightly to connect the colors so that no brown bag showed. Too much brayer-ing and the colors would turn to mud. While the paint was still wet I dropped mini beads, glitter and glitter glue onto the surface. I sprayed them with hairspray to set the PearlEx I also added to the paints. The tan that looks like bag color is really a pinkish brown, formed by mixing a pink acrylic paint with a rust color one. I used too much paint. Next time the paint will be thinner so the colors are more distinct. This technique was borrowed from the blog of Sally T - HERE. I am posting these for Paint Party Friday challenge.