Elle Barry's Recipe for Yummy Brayered Paper
Brown paper grocery bags are what I use for this purpose.
After cutting them to desired size, wet completely and wad up into a ball. Flatten and repeat this process.
Take any kind of acrylic paint and put several colors randomly on the paper and brayer in short little spurts so the colors blend a little at the edges but don't brayer all together or mud or only one color will result.
At this point loose glitter or pearl ex can be added.
Let the paper dry and when it is dry but still wrinkly, take a stamp pad of Encore Ultimate Metallics (or put some metallic tube acrylic on a cosmetic sponge) and rub it over the high places (where the wrinkles are standing up) and let it dry.
Put some protective paper on your ironing board, place the brayered paper face down, spritz the back and press flat with your iron.
Now you can use glitter glue, webbing spray, (1 or more colors) and Krylon Glitter Spray to finish it off....
I love to make this paper. I've used tube acrylics like Liquitex as well as the little craft pots that come connected together and the cheap kind in bottles. It all works. I've used different kinds together... doesn't matter. I'm going to try some cheap tube watercolors next. The hardest part is figuring out what to do with it all. I just want to keep making more and more!
Hope you have fun with this too.
These brayered paper images take a few seconds to load but they're worth it:
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