Holly Thompson’s Eco-print and Watercolor Journal Eco-printed papers and fabrics were made at Jane’s studio during one of SEVERAL classes. These include many of the things that Jane taught (Citrisolv transfers, watercolors, inking, coloring with carriers, and more). I used many of these prints, plus some watercolor animal paintings I have made… and created a little art journal!
The ACTUAL prints were not used – these pages were made by scanning and printing on cardstock papers. My original prints are all still intact. Ribbons were woven through eyelets placed on the cover, and beads were added to the outside. Tags and cards were made from the prints and those are stuck into pockets placed all over the journal. Notice the AWESOME Citrisolv dragonfly transfer on the page below. The armadillo tag is one of my zentangled watercolor pieces. I have a few of these scattered around in here – hadn’t figured out any way to USE them, so they made it into this little book.
For my “seriesâ€?, I gravitated toward vintage papers (sheet music, dictionary pages, book pages) as part of the eco-printing process. I printed on both the watercolor papers and on the vintage papers, and then glued them together. Below you will see a few examples of that. I love this‌ and it will probably always be part of my work.
I also used Photoshop to add some things into the prints – lots of experimentation here‌ started with adding my watercolor prints and veered off into the occasional OWL or EMU (below, I stuck the emu face onto one of my eco-printed carrier cloth pieces and then just started removing pieces of emu until he looked DONE!
The two Citrisolv prints below (spider and dragonfly) were done on Raw silk eco-printed fabric (and again, this was scanned in and printed onto cardstock). The owl was placed using Photoshop.
The dark leaf below (top of left-hand page) was a print of one of my silk scarves that was colored with a dark logwood blanket – I scanned the fabric, printed onto cardstock, and then used punches to make leaves out of eco-printed leaf fabric – how cool is that? There are a couple of other examples of this back on my page showing prints on vintage papers. I obviously like cutting out circles of prints as well…
Here are just a few more of the pages (there are lots more not included). I included 3 signatures of 6 pages each, attached to the album using elastic, so the individual groups of papers can be removed and replaced. I also added a few little lace pieces. This was one of my first journeys into the “scrapbooking/journaling� world, but I must admit that I’m addicted, and have now started doing a lot of boxes and albums.
Thanks for looking! Hugs from Holly