WOYWW and {Homemade Colorwash Sprays}

Hi there! Hope your week is going by smoothly so far :) I was doing some bloghopping and happened upon Julia's blog and her WOYWW (What's on your workdesk Wednesday) weekly posts that she hosts. So I thought to myself, hmmmm this sounds fun, maybe I'll give it a try :p

Since I will be showing you my workdesk, I guess I will now have to admit that since my last post I haven't been all that great with cleaning up after working on my projects. 
LOL, so much for that New Year's resolution!

Here is a photo of what I was working on Monday.  My desk pretty much looks about the same, but I have every intention of clearing it off today :p

Money for me at the moment is very limited and I'm on an extremely tight budget so I've had to be a bit more resourceful as far as art supplies.  But that's the wonderful thing about art journaling and mixed media, pretty much anything goes and you're only limited by your imagination.  Luckily too, I bought lots of supplies and hoarded them when I was able to afford it :p

I've been wanting some Ranger colorwash sprays for the longest but at about $4 a bottle and up, that was a bit beyond my budget.  Luckily, awhile back I was able to purchase some Adirondack ink refills for $1.50 a bottle and decided now was the time to make use of it.

Now my next dilemma was spray bottles. I really didn't want to have to buy any so I decided to tranfer the contents of my smooch spritz bottles into another container (paint containers from the dollar store) and use the misters for my colorwashes.  I really liked the mist of these sprayers but they were constantly clogging on me because of the mica in them, so making the decision to switch out the contents was an easy one.

After playing around a bit I ended up with a "recipe" I was happy with. Now I have a bunch of colorwash sprays and LOTS of ink still leftover to make more :) 

Here's my "recipe" and how I made them:

1. Empty and clean out bottles

2. Fill halfway with water

3. Add 20 drops of ink (I really wanted vibrant color, add less if you prefer it lighter)

4. Add 1/8 tsp. of acrylic glazing liquid  (You don't have to do this, but I wanted to make the spray more permanent)

5. Shake, Shake, Shake

6. Fill the rest of the bottle with more water

7. Cap and Label

8. Your done!!

I sprayed them onto white cardstock and punched that out with a tag punch. Then added that to a binder ring. This is how I like to catalog my sprays :) 

Thanks for stopping by! Hope the rest of your week is wonderful!