Art Journaling: Fused

In this month’s session, we explored art journaling with fusible webbing – a technique that brings texture, sparkle, and surprise to your layout. It’s a heat-reactive mixed media method that uses iron-on adhesive sheets to trap colour, foil, glitter, and more.

I vaguely recall trying out this technique back in art college, some 13 or so years ago, but I came across it again recently. I had been looking through my library of mixed media technique books and found it in both Surface Treatment Workshop (p.114 – Fusible Webbing) and Mixed Media Revolution (p.41). Since I have oodles of fusible webbing available after buying a whole roll of it for quilting purposes, I came up with this after some experimentation:

'Fused' journal layout with paint, metallic acrylics, foil and glitter held together with fusible webbing.
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Tea With Sugar?

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Whilst doing the ground work for yesterday’s sculpture, I made a second tea cup and saucer base. Today I made sugar lumps from polystyrene and Distress Rock Candy glitter and added them to a selection of tagged herbal tea bags for my cascade). Rather delighted with the outcome of this one too 🙂

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