Tuesday 15 January 2019

Making Glassine (and other) BAGS

I'm playing around with making Glassine bags, enjoyed that, so I expanded it to making bags from packaging materials too, and Waxed Paper, new and used, actually the used waxed paper worked just as well as the fresh, but was more interesting right off the bat.



Here Left, I've added white gesso to some of the glassine bags, and used a 'Tearing Ruler' to create a decorative top to some of the bags.










Here right: are more bags, some I went a bit mad with and created HUGE ones.
Here I've started decorating some bags, I started by gessoing a bag, then I used a script stamp and you can see that I have lots of other stamps laid out of the desk, I'm thinking about which ones to choose to add to the script stamped bag, I only want a few, but I want to keep to a nautical theme.




I liked the result, using a bird on its own, a fish, a turtle, a compass, and a postage stamp of a seagull, so then I tried again with a few more stamps.

















Here I used a sailing ship stamp, the same compass design, a little anchor, the bird again, plus a couple of faux postage cancellation stamps, but with the same script stamp behind it all.






Then I tried a few other things, already stamped tissue, plus some painted raspberry cushioning from a punnet of fruit.


Then I used some rainbow ink pads for this peacock:



Then I used some 'Napkin Waste' the unused layers that you may have left after using the thin top layer on another project.

Here I also stamped INTO the Napkin Waste with stamps, the Napkin Waste was fixed in place with Gesso.














After it had dried I coloured it a lovely blue:


This bag was made from Grey Paper packaging.











Next I added the top layer from a paper towel I'd used to soak up ink, I got two sheets of this lovely stuff from that paper towel!
So I got two bags from that.



Like mirror images!










The last thing I tried was printing onto Glassine paper. I do NOT recommend this. It made such a mess of my printer that I may now have to buy a new one, so I only have a single example of this:







It's very nice, despite where it smeared a bit, but not worth the cost of a new printer.









Not sure what I'll try next, but it's been a lot of fun so far.