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| PAGES WITH PAINT |
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| PAGES WITH GESSO |
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| WOVEN GESSO STRIPS |
I've been playing around with old book pages over the last few weeks. The hardest bit was biting the bullet and actually tearing up a book!!! In the end this one was a very old paperback which had pages missing and which was falling apart. Plus I already had another copy! Even so........Having finally cleared the first hurdle the rest has been comparatively easy.
One of the issues faced when using book pages for craft projects is that sometimes the actual words on the page are inappropriate. I gave some of the pages a light coating of acrylic paint - a second light coat would have obscured the words sufficiently whilst still retaining the look of text. For the second sample I used gesso, with similar results. The main difference was that the latter was "toothier" and would probably make a better base for stamping etc.
If you're still worrying about the text being too readable, you could always cut your paper into strips and weave it together as shown in the third picture!
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