Sea-Themed Artist Trading Coins
Hello again! I am back, this time to show how I made the Artist Trading Coins pictured below. The Coins continue to be all the rage amongst the mail art traders, and I personally really enjoy working on a round shape. Aren't they cool? I love how they turned out! (I say that because most of the time, I don't know where I'm going when I start a project, so sometimes there's no telling how something will turn out!) Anyhow, I started with a 5x7 sheet of Canson mixed media paper and Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Inks in various colors of blue and the Iced Spruce color. I mushed one, two or three colors onto my craft mat, spritzed lightly with water, and dragged the paper through the wet colors. By dragging the papers, I get a nice smooth blend of colors. Because I had so much ink left over, I pulled out some blank Artist Trading Card mixed media paper to sop up the extra inks. I dried the papers between each layer, did another drag-through w...