Why It Works | Paper Blending

I looooooove blending papers. I most regularly use blending to make a paper be more of the color I want from a kit. For instance, if Little Butterfly Wings includes one color of a scratchy painty mixed media, I love the texture, but that color in the kit doesn't work for my photo or story. So I just use a solid paper (or a new layer with a color picker and a paint bucket) to mess with blending modes. I can alternate if I want the original paper above or below, if I want the paper darker or lighter. I mess with opacities...

I use this method for tinting photos, too. (Blending a solid paper with blend modes over a photo)

A Beach Photo by klee73010 posted Jan 29, 2018 at 8:44 PM

I haven't used the gradient layer mask for paper blending though. I usually rely on template pieces to include masks I can clip to, but, I've been getting a little better with brushes and layer masks after that dispersion technique for MOC... I'm sure this will be a piece of cake after that animal of a challenge (which I loved, seriously.) !!!

 

MY layout from yesterday used gradient masks. LOVE them! Honestly, I think at least 50% of my backgrounds usually have something blended into them with gradients.

On my first page of layouts, I have 7 out of 15 layouts that use gradients.

 

WOW, using a gradient to blend is awesome!! So glad you put this in the learning pad. Here are some I recently did for challenges.

For the style challenge; love how I got the darker side and the lighter side with the two papers.


For the journaling challenge; there are three papers blended here:

 

I used Dawn's Paint & Create to build my background.

 

I got one, I didn't know that you could keep pulling gradients on top of gradients on a mask that you created. Here is my example with a radial gradient.

 

Dalis... I love the movement that it brings to the page. Plus the lines going across and then the round blended spots really look cool together! I made a tut for Mirjam to add creases with gradients. Take a peek. (Adding Folds)

 

These are all gorgeous examples of blending! @Dalis the layered gradients idea is really neat! What an eye catching page. And @jk703 ... that tutorial was incredible!

 

OMG, I just browse it and I need to take time to check that tutorial out and play with it!

 

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I absolutely love how TLP teaches me so much!! I had never tried blending papers before and Jenn @jenn mccabe had a slow scrap recently featuring how to blend papers. I loved it and have been blending papers. Here's the layout I created for Jenn's Slow Scrap.


I just created this page for the PRD July Round Robin. I blended 3 papers on it.

 

@Cherylndesigns I think that was the lovely @Karen that hosted that Blending Chat! I LOVE that you are getting to try new things and having fun while scrapping! Both pages are awesome!

 

Duh - you're right. Sorry @Karen - brain not working today.