Parchment Paper

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

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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