Make Your Own Collage Paper with Any Acrylic Paint — Part 2

Today I’ll show you a surprising way to make your own collage papers using any type of acrylic paint and paper you probably already have. It’s Part 2 of the series on how to create beautiful collage papers without any special skills, techniques or supplies.

I’ll show you exactly how I paint my collage papers, including what kind of paint gets the best result. I’ll also show you how my handmade collage paper looks inside of my own visual journals, and how your new collage papers can inspire other creative projects.

Making simple collage papers to use in your art journal, visual journal, collages and in your paintings is so satisfying.

I’m inspired by the Matisse cut paper collages — which he created by painting on paper. If you haven’t yet tried to paint with collage paper, I hope you’ll take away some ideas to get started.

While it’s fun to collect scrapbooking and decorative paper to use for mixed media collage backgrounds, you can easily make your own scrapbook paper, in whatever color palette or design you like best. This collage paper tutorial is perfect for your DIY paper collage paintings, art journaling, or to add to your sketchbook.

If you haven’t seen Part 1, it’s right here:

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[LisaSonora]

🎨You might have been making your own collage papers already! 🎨Let me know if this technique inspires you — also any questions you have or future video suggestions are ALWAYS welcome!

[JessBryant-bzsl]

Thank you so so very much Lisa!! I'm not sure how I haven't found you until now, I have watched SOOOO many(99.9% of the time... USELESS) videos looking for EXACTLY what I just found in yours.. You're seriously my new favorite creator and I'm so glad I stumbled upon your page. You are such a great teacher, so many of these quote-unquote teachers on here are so unrelatable I would come onto YouTube looking for inspiration or tutorials on how to do certain things that I didn't know how to do and almost all the time ended up only frustrated or feeling like I could never be as good as these people on here with their fancy machines and expensive products and things that I probably will never own in my life, and to be honest for a while I kind of had just given up on doing what brings me so much joy which is all different sorts of paper crafting because I felt like never in a million years could I make anything even close to what everybody else on here was making. I would search and search and just could not find anything that was relatable....and then here comes Lisa saving the day with some old bank statements and some cheap paints and Bondo and things that were either already laying around my house or that I can easily pick up in a dollar store. You're a true artist and I just want to say thank you for making yourself relatable to people like myself who love creating and just don't happen to be super rich. I'm sorry about my long novel length comment, but I just want you to know how great I think you are and what a blessing you are to this community.

[dawnjames]

Thank you for helping me let go of the perfection, and just practice playing!

[alicevanuden]

So many good ideas in this video. Using a sketchbook for leftovers of your materials and tear the pages out so you don't have all those loose papers around is something I take away from this video. And I love how you used the magazine image and the collage piece in your journal. I love all the video's you've shared lately, thank you Lisa! You're the one who always help me to get back to my journal when once again I've forgotten what it's really about.

[sherrybarfield]

Really wonderful and useful information! Thanks.

[AngieTrianta]

I love seeing what you do with the collage papers you made in the first video. Thank you for sharing your process, it’s fascinating. It especially blew my mind that you use a credit card to paint on your canvas breaking all the “rules” I thought I knew about how to make art.

[CicelyReneeDoesLife]

thank you so much for sharing these tips

[maxinelang]

Awesome! SO many ideas to try. I saw a wild abstract garden in the papers you showed at the end....more ideas. Thanks LIsa!

[dorothyviljoen]

Thanks so much for sharing, Lisa. Only seeing these videos now. I’ve also done a lot of painting backgrounds on scrap pieces of paper. It is such a surprize when you start cutting it up for tags, hearts and other embelishments to use in your junk journals😀 Something else that I recently started doing, is painting over old dress pattern paper and the using it in collages, painting it onto collages with matt medium. Surprizing results too. Thanks for all your tips and tricks🤗 Happy painting❤️

[PBampm]

So glad I saw your video. I was just about to toss all my scratch papers out. Now my old paints have the new job of making beautiful collage paper. Mahalo 🎉

[swl]

You have inspired me to not use styrofoam meat trays as a palette! Thanks so much for the inspo!

[paprluvr]

I had done the same things that you did with the painted papers. When I used the papers, they would stick together. What can be done so the papers won’t stick together?