Dear Liza,
My friend Ruthie Inman is always teaching me new things! This week, we are making a new journal cover.
For our Zoom Art group this week, she asked us to pull together some muslin fabric, tissue papers or napkins, and some watered down glue.
So friends in Scotland, Illinois and Portland did just that. And the project, at least this part, was just as easy as it could be. We slathered the thin glue mixture onto the fabric, tore the tissue paper into pieces, and stuck them down.
I started with bright colors from napkins, and then softened them with the white layers.
We kept gluing until we had about four layers, pausing to let it dry a bit in between layers so the whole gooey thing didn’t disintegrate under our brush.
I finished my piece with some old wrapping tissue flowers and a butterfly from a napkin, and left it to dry.
And to make sure it didn’t stick to the mat and dried completely by tomorrow, I carefully peeled the fabric and paper layers off the mat and laid them on a cooling rack.
We’ll see what happens when we all Zoom Art together on Thursday!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 