I am constantly inspired by surface patterns and textures. From a pile of doodled papers I found lace like doodling on unbleached printing paper. I decided to decorate it by adding white on some of the details and empty areas. It was a quick card: just adding the white and cutting it to the proper size. I pretty liked it so I made another card using the same concept but with different background paper. So, here are instructions to create these fun lace cards!
Doodled Lace on Paper
You can create an interesting effect of color changes in the background by painting the background paper with watercolors. Pick a thin black pen for doodles. I love making doilies that look like they are on the top of another. Draw the doily on the top first. Group your doodles and leave some empty areas around the groups.
Add White to the Background
I used Copic Opaque White in a jar for bigger areas and Uniball Signo pen for smaller areas. A white color pencil was used too. White acrylic paint does the job too.
You can easily make georgeus and unique projects with this technique!
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That is so cool! I would have made the colors a background and just illustrated something on top! Love the reverse effect!
Car, thanks! This way it looks more like the lace parts were attached to the white areas.
I love your work you are so creative
Love this one too. I shall have fun giving this a try. Thanks Paivi.
Dear Paivi,
you saved me! I was looking for some nice card for my dearest friend, without success…. but when I recieved your idea I decided to give a try. And I´m very happy with the results, not so nice as yours of course but to be the first time… very decent.
Thank you so much again! Greetings from Lima.
Hi Päivi,
I have tried ..almost ready, just cannot decide of the backround color 🙂 Thank you again!
thanks for sharing beautiful cards