วีดีโอ

I use those cutting mats from Dollar Tree for smaller pieces of paper.TFS

Great tips and cool papers! Thank you!

Thank you!

What I *REALLY* want you to teach me... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Is *HOW ON EARTH* you keep your craft space so clean? 😫 Hmmm... I really liked the look of that second crackle product in the jar, it looked like it was super glossy and quality, much better than the first...but I don't think the results were as good. Obviously you used a ton of products to make super chunky crackles, but both were a little bit disappointing that they could just drop off the paper. Yes you managed to fix that, but you shouldn't have had to do that imo. I would expect better results from such products. Maybe they work better on furniture perhaps? Solid wood that can't stretch and shrink like paper? But then these are not sold for home decor, although many people use them for such, they are sold for artists, so what surface are MOST artists going to paint on if not paper...🙄 Still it's great that we get to see them at work on screen so we can be aware of results, I do appreciate that. But both companies should appreciate *YOU,* because as an artist you managed to make their products look like they WEREN'T an expensive waste of time. If someone with an ordinary crafting channel had demonstrated them, I think they'd have looked like a complete fail. I've always been a silver person, always wear silver jewellery and not a fan of gold, plus I'm allergic to gold. But recently I've become mesmerised by crafting projects using proper iridescent mouthwatering shades of gold. So I HAVE TO ASK, what is that brand of gold paint that you used? That intensity of colour was so deep and pure, it literally looked like you were spreading on molten metal. 🤩 I NEED that gold paint in my life! My favourite pieces you made were the gold and blues, and the silver and blues. Again that silver paint also had a true metallic sheen to it, although not as much as the gold or as pretty, but it was there. I think many metallic paints look glorious in the tubes, but are disappointing in reality. Very thin and more glittery than metal. So I need your best recommendations for gold and silver paints please. Not spray paints either, but artist paints that can be mixed with water. On that note, I don't have any alcohol inks yet, but I didn't know you could spritz them with water and mop them up like that??? That's a new realisation for me. I would have thought they were permanent and dried super fast...like a Sharpie. They have alcohol inks in right? So it's kind of odd to me that you're able to do that... something's not computing in the science area of my brain with that! 😂 Although it's been that many years since school that doesn't surprise me! My brain's science area is probably the size of a mouldy old shrivelled peanut by now! 🤣 Ooh and one last recommendation if you don't mind...what is the WHITEIST pen that you know of? I have a Pental brand one and it's more like a chalk pen IMO. Not very opaque and the more you go over it the more it removes of the previous layer, very annoying. Then I bought a Posca brand one as I've heard so many people rave about Posca pens, and I have to say I'm not sure why people rave about them? It's just a paint pen, right? The problem I find with paint pens is that the paint flow is unpredictable. They're either dry and scratchy, or flooding without warning. I shake the hell out of them and push the nibs as instructed, but the flow...just doesn't. Flow I mean. So if you could please recommend gold and silver paints, and the whiteist pen ever, I'd really appreciate it! I want it so white, that brands are competing over it being the whiteist ever...like those two guys did a few years back over the blackest paint in the world. 😂 Thank you for sharing. 🤗

encouragement

❤So ciol

Another fun thing to try!!!! Thank you, Cat! LOVE IT!

Lovely!

The straw one was very cool❣️❣️

Wonderful to learn new ways to use teabags. I've used them before as part of a cluster on mixed media, but haven't stamped them before. Thank you.

Catherine, I always enjoy your mark making videos.

Catherine, thank you for the inspiration. I need know I have straws somewhere! x

Great video and ideas! I love using the cardboard filler pieces with the honeycomb pattern on my gel plate but had never thought to wrap string around it. Going to go make one now! What type of black paper are you using? It’s so vibrant. I’ve been struggling trying to find a suitable black.

So confused yiu say glue then matte medium. . Help

I love your willingness to play, Catherine, thank you!

You didnt say what kind of paint. Acrylic or watercolor.

Nice! Thanks for the info about matte medium and parchment paper when flattening it. I did not know they wouldn't just stick together!

My kids laugh at me because every time I go to their house I find some "trash" that will make cool marks!! 😂

I love the straw techniques and the string wrap technique -both new to me.

Very cool, Catherine ~ I've tried various crackle mediums and found my favorites to be TriArt and Kroma. Sealing them with Matte Medium is a great tip; I always had trouble with the crackle lifting when I tried adding inks or very fluid paints so this is a HUGE tip....I'm also going to try placing a 'crackled' paper on top of some dark, wet inks, as I quite liked the effect you accidentally got from the dried black paint seeping through the back of that one paper ~ it could produce some additional interesting effects. Thanks!! 🥰

I am not patient enough to do this technique.. ha ha.. but I can't wait to see how you use them in your collages

Wow, very cool. But, I would be harvesting a lot of the crackles that aren't adhered to use as embellishments, especially those beautiful gold ones! They just look so cute and would be unusual in a collage.

This was helpful on so many levels for me - seeing how the matte medium vs gel work, layout ideas and the various techniques you taught for me, a behinner. Thank you so much!

have you tried dropping some colored alcohol ink on them?

So pretty...what paper is best to use?

Ecologically, you do NOT want to be rinsing the toxic chemicals in paint, down the drain. . . Do you have ANY idea where it ends up?! It’s far better to clean up paint with cloth/paper towels, and send them to the land-fill! Though it IS the lesser of two evils. . . .

Exceptional tutorial really level the crackle. Do you think you can crackle on tea paper?

Great workshop…so fun👌🏻

Great workshop✌🏼

Thank you SO much for doing this demo for us. You have so many great ideas and your videos are inspirational

belle carte! ❤❤

So cool. ❤❤❤

Fabulous vid Catherine!!

Thank you!😊 I have been feeling blah and out of sorts, but watching this video has perked me up a bit; I may not be emulating Gene Kelly and singing in the rain, I am definitely grateful for Rains! Apologies for the pun..

Hi Cat. Thanks for another very cool idea! I’m wondering if you could add matte medium on the back side of your warped paper to help relax the paper and flatten it out. It seems like it would still help adhere the crackle to the paper without filling the cracks with the matte medium. Do you think this idea would work?

Very interesting results again. I'm looking forward to seeing your collages. Did you consider taping the paper to a board before adding crackle medium?

Interesting. I have played with crackle, but haven't enjoyed the results. May pull them back out and experiment again. Thank you!

Muito triste porque no meu país não encontro esses produtos para comprar. Preciso descobrir algo para substituí-los. Mas obrigada pela dica.

Crackle is so much fun, isn't it? I love Tri-Art Crackle. I also hear that Fusion Mineral Paint crackle is good. I like to tape my paper down to a piece of acrylic and then prep it with a coat of GAC 200 (gloss medium works, too). I find that this reduces the curling of the paper and really helps with adhesion. I love your addition of the gold. It's so pretty!

Perfect timing. I had ordered Tri Art the other day and it arrives tomorrow! Beautiful papers, especially love the one with alcohol inks.

I LOVE your videos.

Hi Catherine, I LOVE your videos. Could you do one that shows how you organize and store your collage papers? My small studio is completely overrun by all sorts of collage papers.

Cool video! Thanks so much! FYI alcohol ink doesn’t get old. Maybe try spraying with isopropyl alcohol? 🧐

That gold and blue one!❤

The free online workshop is very interesting and fun!

COOL. I love mixed medium. Is there a way to do this with personal photos? Maybe coping photos onto paper and using that as the bas

Excited to see another of your videos

I'm wondering...Do you add anything to the paint to thin it out?

What about a long cake iceing tool?

Many years ago, a gallery owner told me he used coffee in one of his paintings, and that as years went by, creatures - rodents? cockroaches? - ate through it. Something to think about. Will the coffee attract varmints? Does it matter if the art lasts for decades?