Cool tut - I've seen a lot of vinage 'tea stained' stuff as well - this helps me because I have to grunge up stuff and scan for the digital scrapbook kits I design (that look is really in)...
megrockstar
April 08, 2007
I remember I did this in third grade on a project. I used tea and i soaked it. It came out good too but not as good as you did here(with the coffee).
I also took a match and burned a few areas and immediately blew them out and let the paper get 'singed' a little more and a tiny bit more of a used look.
Great idea here with a poem.
thanks!
DIY Maven
April 07, 2007
Hey b_o_cs! Absolutely, a hot dry iron will help with the wavies.
b_o_cs
April 06, 2007
great work! but the shett is a bit wavy... how may it 'ironing'???
elizabethperry
February 03, 2007
We always used tea to age the treasure maps we made, when I was growing up. Then after the tea had dried, we'd rub a tiny bit of vegetable oil over the page, which made the stained paper turn translucent and look more the way we imagined parchment did. Sometimes we'd burn the edges, but it was risky - you could lose a map that way if you weren't paying close attention.
lizandbogart
February 03, 2007
Great post! I've done this, but I used tea instead and I didn't have to bake it. You can also burn (very carefully) the edges.
Keter
February 02, 2007
Kewl! I remember doing this as a kid, but with lemon juice, salt, and (I think) cream of tartar (NOT baking soda/powder for sure!). Sprinkle the powder on the paper, then spritz with the lemon juice from a spray bottle or spatter with a toothbrush. Bake in a low oven until dry. The spots where the lemon juice stuck more would darken, yielding a parchment look. It was a variation on the idea of using lemon juice as invisible ink that gets revealed when warmed over a candle flame.
Your method is just as good and no doubt will be a lot less smelly. ;o)
Thing to remember with paper treated with acid (coffee and tea are acidic, too) is that the acid will continue to eat away at the paper and anything else the paper comes into contact with, so it shouldn't be used in scrap books, or enclosed with any item of value (stray humidity can pick up the acid and affect items not in direct contact) so ixnay on sealed cases/shadowboxes, too.
No first-hand experience on this, but theoretically you should be able to neutralize the acid by soaking the finished paper in baking soda solution. Try an experiment with this before doing it to a nice project, though, to see if there are any unexpected effects (bleaching, loss of fiber strength, etc.).
bruno
February 02, 2007
Way to go, Maven! This is a really cool tutorial.
DIY Maven
February 02, 2007
BTW, if you want your new antiqued paper to be nice and flat, you can iron it at a medium/high setting. No steam, of course ;)
Debra
megrockstar
I remember I did this in third grade on a project. I used tea and i soaked it. It came out good too but not as good as you did here(with the coffee).
I also took a match and burned a few areas and immediately blew them out and let the paper get 'singed' a little more and a tiny bit more of a used look.
Great idea here with a poem.
thanks!
DIY Maven
b_o_cs
great work! but the shett is a bit wavy... how may it 'ironing'???
elizabethperry
lizandbogart
Keter
Kewl! I remember doing this as a kid, but with lemon juice, salt, and (I think) cream of tartar (NOT baking soda/powder for sure!). Sprinkle the powder on the paper, then spritz with the lemon juice from a spray bottle or spatter with a toothbrush. Bake in a low oven until dry. The spots where the lemon juice stuck more would darken, yielding a parchment look. It was a variation on the idea of using lemon juice as invisible ink that gets revealed when warmed over a candle flame.
Your method is just as good and no doubt will be a lot less smelly. ;o)
Thing to remember with paper treated with acid (coffee and tea are acidic, too) is that the acid will continue to eat away at the paper and anything else the paper comes into contact with, so it shouldn't be used in scrap books, or enclosed with any item of value (stray humidity can pick up the acid and affect items not in direct contact) so ixnay on sealed cases/shadowboxes, too.
No first-hand experience on this, but theoretically you should be able to neutralize the acid by soaking the finished paper in baking soda solution. Try an experiment with this before doing it to a nice project, though, to see if there are any unexpected effects (bleaching, loss of fiber strength, etc.).
bruno
DIY Maven
dentedvw
Neat idea!
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