I've done the wall paper and since my hand needs a rest, thought I'd get around to doing the water based textures. I'd previously tried out textures on this paper but not how to maintain them as some ideally needs to stay within strict borders so not to seep into the lizards tongue etc. Bearing in mind the magic tape proved unsuitable I wanted to do the curtain like kinda like this
but a lighter tone so tested to see how the adhesive border roll would work on this paper.
on the left side, it was applied pressed down hard and stripped off so that's like the worse case scenario where as the right side it hadn't been pressed quite so hard and taken off carefully.. though I'm not 100% sure if its wasn't pressed down firmly, how well it would abide by the pattern within the adhesive? Ultimately the adhesive will be in minimal contact with any line work, probably mostly around the vase. Masking fluid is far from ideal with this paper
So masking tape doen't effectively maintain the water based ink. and the masking fluid and magic tape take off the top layer. Redrawing over the ruptured surface, I wouldn't beable to get the same delicate line like imagine this happened on the lizards tongue.
not really sure what to do. See how my hand is tomorrow, at latest ill start the carpet by Friday and will have it done for Monday leaving me a week to finish it off.

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