Paste Paper
- Make Your Own!
Contributed By: Nancy
Handy
Paste paper is a textured paper
that you can make at home. I will try to tell you
how to make it, but it is easier
if you do it in a class so you can see it for yourself. It
is a lot of fun.
You can make paste paper look like papyrus, basketweave, African
texture, etc. You are only limited by the limits of your own
imagination. See 6 of my paste paper examples. |
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Ingredients
7 cups water
1 cup cornstarch (buy in any grocery store)
2 tablespoons glycerine (bought at pharmacy)
- Many pieces of paper
(paper that is not too thin, cut down to 5
x 8" or smaller)
- Acrylic paint (the kind that come in little bottles).
Make Slurry (the night before you need it):
Stir 1 cup of cold water with 1 cup of cornstarch
Boil 6 cups of water. After boiling,
turn down heat, and whisk in slurry while on stove. Remove
from heat and keep stirring till smooth
(NO LUMPS!). Whisk in glycerine. Cover
with wax paper till cool.
Leave out overnight.
The next day:
Making colors: Pour small amounts (around 3 oz) into paper cups
and add 2 tablespoons of an acrylic paint into each cup. You
can add some Pearl Ex in too. Stir it around to mix it
all in. Make lots of cups of colors. You will use them all. It
is now ready to use.
Use one of those painting sponges on a stick to dip it in (each
color gets its own brush) and smear it on your paper. Sponge
it on it layers. You can have a bottom layer of one color and
a top layer of another so that. You can have stripes of colors.
You can pull combs through it (straight
or waves or zig zags) or use a thin flat piece (make ribbon-type
squiggle lines or small diamond or square shapes). You can paint
a stamp with it and then stamp and smush it back and forth slightly
onto your creation (but clean the stamp with water quickly so
you don't ruin it).
The mixture ingredients above makes
a lot of slurry. Personally I would use half of everything listed
there, except the glycerine which keeps it from being dull or
matte.
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Handmade Paper Tips
Contributed By: Charlotte
Borgerding
When you are making your handmade paper,
stamp an image or verse on tissue paper, and while your paper
is draining on the screen, place the stamped tissue paper image
on the top and it will blend with the homemade paper. Very nice
effect.
In the example show here, I stamped the collage image, from Paper
Inspirations, and the key, from Magenta, on white tissue paper
with black Memories Dye Ink . I stamped the saying, "Wonderful
Friend" from Penny Black, with Port Red Memories Dye Ink
on white tissue paper. Make sure to trim away any excess tissue
paper on the images and saying.
Before I pressed the water out of the handmade paper, I placed
the stamped tissue paper images on the pulp and lightly pressed
them into the pulp till all tissue was wet and blended in. I
then continued with the rest of the procedure for making paper.
This is the very first time I have made my own paper. I was so
pleased with how it turned out using the stamped tissue paper
images. I hope others try this. It is so much fun! |
Stamp Artist - Charlotte Borgerding |
Fern Paper - Make Your
Own!
Contributed By: Zana Clark
- zana@stampzia.com
http://www.stampzia.com
Materials:
Hot Press Watercolor Paper - Arches140#
Wood Board or Foam Board for stretching Paper
Waterbased Colored Inks - FW Acrylics or Luma Pearlescent
Pressed-flat Natural Ferns
Spray bottle w/ H2O
Weight for pressing, large enough for covering stretched paper
(heavy stretcher board or ¼"plexiglass sheet)
Process:
1. Soak and then stretch watercolor paper on board.
2. Working outside, where ink runoff will not stain or harm your
yard, pour or spray inks on paper
surface. Move inks around by spraying with H2O.
3. Place fattened ferns onto the inked paper surface and weight
down entire area, leaving it in direct
sunlight to thoroughly dry.
4. Remove weight and then carefully pull off ferns.
Hints:
* You can spray the fern side that will be touching the paper
with Pam to prevent sticking. It also may
leave stains, though usually not too noticeable.
* I can reuse the ferns if I'm careful to save them as they are
removed from the paper surface.I do this
because I don't live where the ferns grow naturally.
* You can experiment with different soaked and stretched paper
weights and surfaces, as well as by
varying the amounts of inks you pour.
* It may take you a couple of trys experimenting to find the
fern look you love!
* I like to weight my fern paper down with heavy plexiglass so
I can watch the sun do it's thing.
Handmade Paper Tips
Contibuted By: - Paula
Jo
*When I am making paper from recycled junk mail or other sources,
I first shred or tear the paper into
small pieces. Then I let the paper soak overnight. The next day,
I bring a large kettle of water to a boil and add the soaked
paper. I turn the heat down to simmer and cover the kettle with
a lid and let the paper simmer for about an hour, stirring it
about every 15-20 minutes. Let the paper cool and then strain
it over a large bowl. Don't let the paper pulp go down the drain
or it will clog up. After the water has drained completely out
of the water you can use the paper just as you would the commercially
made paper pulp material. You can make this paper ahead of time
and store it indefinately in a plastic bag in
the freezer.
*Another hint I have is to make your own molds for envelopes.
Get some of the vinyl (like for car seats) at the fabric store.
Trace the inside of your deckle on the vinyl and cut it out.
Next, center an envelope pattern onto the piece of vinyl and
trace around it. With an x-acto knife, cut out the envelope pattern,
being careful not to cut the "border" around the pattern.
Place this pattern in your mold and deckle to form perfectly
shaped envelopes. |
