Howdy Crafters - I was in the mood to do up some more parchment papers. I was solo this time - it took 1.5 hours to complete 114 papers - love the crinkle. I have photo of my preparation table, the finished stack of parchment papers and a few shots of some I created today.
Tutorial below [I was inspired by Ellie W - her link is below for you to watch how she does it]
Thanks for stopping by. Gail
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| Getting my area and supplies ready to create Parchment paper |
Finished Stack of 114 Sheets
The aluminum pan [2 for $1 at Dollar Tree] was used for this pattern
Coffee Rings - use the rim of a quart jar or a coffee cup to get these rings
I used Distress Ink and wrote Coffee
Rainbow colors of Food Coloring
Blick Water Color sprayed on paper
Gail Scott ~ Parchment Paper is EASY
to Create! You can do it! ~ Sept. 2018 ~
I use my gas oven at 200 Degrees to
bake my finished printer paper.
Supplies:
1. Regular Cookie Sheets or Aluminum Cookie sheets
from the dollar store for baking your colored paper in the oven - I prefer the light weight dollar tree Aluminum Cookie sheets.
2. Aluminum roasting pans or
rectangle baking dishes for coloring your paper
3. Several Cereal bowls or plates [for mixing
food colors to make different colors]
4. Toothbrush, spoon, quart jar/coffee cup
[use the rim for coffee rings], sponges that have the handle, paint brushes
[a variety], water to mix food coloring for different shades - or other items
to make prints and such - I have an aluminum pan that has circles in it [from dollar store] - this
gives a nice effect
4. Printer paper
5. Food Coloring - you can use it
directly from the bottle or mixed with water - I have done both depending on
what look I want.
However, a few drops of yellow food
coloring in a bowl with some added water [about 1/8 cup or less]- will give you
plenty of bright color on your paper- experiment to see what colors you would
like to create and shades: light, dark, medium etc.
Mix the colors such as Red and Green
to get shades of browns. Yellow + Blue =
green Yellow + red = Orange
Blue + Red= purple [you can get info on
the internet for mixing different colors to get a new color.
I have also used TH Distress Stains
and sprays on my paper and used in the oven. The coffee grounds with hot water
did not work for me very well - I guess I do not know how to do that.
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I bake my
prepared papers in a 200 Degree gas oven for a few minutes - usually less than
5 minutes - depends on how WET the paper is - when you have a sheet of paper
that is very wet - put another sheet of paper on top of that - press on it -
now you have 2 sheets to bake
After
coloring, I lay the paper on cookie sheets - 2 sheets per cookie sheet - or you
can stack them - I have tried stacking and it works - just keep checking the
oven and rotating pages so they dry - find what works best for you.
* I have used
the back of a spoon to dip in the solution and smooth around the paper- I have
poured the solution on my paper to get the paper entirely covered.
* A Toothbrush
gives a different effect - craft sponges [the one with a handle] works great
too - as well as paint brushes to get your food coloring mixture on your paper
- make designs, swirls, etc. on your paper to give a different look. Unlimited to what you can do when creating
your paper - use your imagination.
* For coffee
rings - take a jar and dip the rim into food color mixture then start stamping
on the page with the jar - gives a nice effect.
There is so much
you can do in creating parchment paper and I love the CRINKLE after the paper
dries. [You can iron your paper with a
craft iron - I have not tried that but I read that somewhere].
Use your
finished parchment paper for Journal pages - card fronts, tags, etc.
I have
STAMPED on the parchment paper with clear and rubber stamps. Works great for
me.
Here is a tutorial by Ellie that got
me started on using food coloring for Parchment Papers - thank you Ellie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD0Y8RTXWrE
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