Tissue Paper Pinworthies

Hello everyone, this is Astrid here to announce our pinworthy choices from our June challenge Tissue Paper.
Like always, it was really hard to whittle it down to just 3, but needs must, so without further ado and in no particular order, here they are:

#8 Experiments in Paper

We loved the way tissue paper was used both for the cover and the inside pages of this wonderful album. The detail on all the pages is amazing!

#10 Elly's Creaties

Even though tissue paper is not the main feature in this project, we really liked this fabulous little house with all the natural elements and gorgeous textures.

#4 Suzz's Stamping Spot

The creative guides adored the super clever technique with embossing paste and tissue paper on this fabulous ornate tag. The effect achieved looks amazing!

We would like to thank all our wonderful participants for playing in our June challenge and congratulations to our amazingly talented winners, we will be sending you your AVJ Pinworthy badges to display on your blogs very soon.

There is still plenty of time to play in our current challenge Precious Metal, so do check it out to get all the details.

Thanks for stopping by like always,

Astrid and the Creative Guides

Tissuepaper Book Box tutorial by Astrid

Hello friends and welcome for our tutorial post here at AVJ. As the host for this month's challenge, it is my turn to share a tutorial for the project I made for that..

As you may remember, I altered one of these bookboxes that I am using to keep my wax seal stamps in. So let's get started:

Here you can see what the box looked like to start with. To cover it I used an old technique using scraps of plain tissue paper to end up with a sort of leather look surface.

I tore a hug pile of tissue scraps, the fact that they have this strange colour is just due to the bad lighting when I took the photo, they are actually white.

I adhered them to all sides of the box, including the spine of course, using gel medium.

I then gave it all a coat of clear gesso and then coloured everything with a mix of Distress Oxide Sprays and Decoart Media paints, until eventually I was more or less happy with the result, and then promptly forgot to take a photo of that stage, - sorry.

While the box was drying I started work on the front panel.

I adhered a piece of Tim Holtz tissue wrap to a piece of card with Collage Medium and then toned it down with some Decoart Media Translucent White paint, gently removing some areas with a slightly damp baby wipe.

I then turned to the inside of the box. I covered the inside of the lid with a piece of rice paper from Stamperia.

I then used Distress crayons and collage elements to add further interest.

First I used a stencil and texture past, then I added some washi and parts of paper serviettes (all further examples of tissue paper of course) and finally finished it with a wax seal.

I used similar elements for the front panel, moving collage elements around until I was happy with the final composition  and then adhered the panel to the front of the box.

The final stage was to highlight some of the raised  bits created with the tissue paper with Treasure Gold gilding paste and then to fill my box with my ever groing collection of wax seal stamps. I love how wax seals can create a finishing touch to collage projects and journals, and using them has definitely become somewhat of an addiction...

Well that's it from me for today. There is still plenty of time to add your own tissue paper project to our challenge and we would love to see what you can come up with!

Thank you so much for your visit today and hopefully see you next week when one of us will share a creative card making post with us all here.