Samplers from the Distressed Paper Tutorials

Posted by Kim Newberg - September 26, 2016 1:06 PM

Hi Everyone, Here are my finished distressed paper samples I had created in my Distressed Paper Tutorials Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Coffee filters and tea bags

Shipping tags including before and after

Paper Doilies and Candy cups

Stained fabric with coffee and pink dye

Here are the makings of a simple altered book page

Envelopes notice the cd envelope, this will be great for a round CD card

Still have to cover that ugly text both front and back

Paper Bags stained and coffee stamped

Coffee stained and Olive oil stamped

Darker coffee mixture

Teabag staining, inked edges and coffee stamped

Blotter paper that looks like great distressed paper! Total Accident! LOL

Here is the paper that was on the blotter paper

Stained and scented with vanilla and cinnamon

Pink and Brown text pages

The round ring impression comes from resting an object (bowl) while wet.

Assorted techniques

Bleached cardstock with and without paint wash

My favorite, stained paper towels

Here is an art piece I created using some of the distressed paper with other found objects and recycle bits:

Titled" In my world I am King of recycle and reuse.

Created on a 4.5 x 7 matte board I used a vintage image, my background

paper is the original black that was distressed with bleach and copper

paint. I then used a variety of the ephemera from collage sheets

including the coins, rusty name plate, and the King's crown. I added

some glitter for gems on the crown.

The rusty items, I used a bottle cap, a rusty nail with

beaded top for his royal scepter, 2 paperclips hold a paper coin roller

(actually glued) this paper holder holds a tag that has two pull tabs

glued on each side and strung with a fibre tie. When you pull the tag

out, one side says recycle, the other side says reuse.

A couple of other bits used were some kind of metal piece and a broken part of a ruler.

Backside is finished with distressed music sheet, title and artist info.

There you have it! Enjoy!

Distressed paper using household items Part 1

This is going to be a lengthy tutorial because I took many pictures while I was doing this and narrowed it down to 75 pictures.

I used a variety of household products to get the results for my pages as well as many familiar products and basic tools.

The assortment of papers I used include: envelopes, text pages,

blank paper and card stock, shipping tags, paper towels, napkins,

filters, tissue paper, paper bags, fabric, doilies, cupcake holders,

construction paper however you are limited only to your imagination and I

will let you know of others as I think of them along the way.

Some basic supplies required

but easily improvised are: a couple of flat baking sheets, roll of paper

towels, paint brushes, sponges, containers for mixing paints, spray

bottles, and other items you will see as the tutorial progresses.

Items used to create effects:

Instant Coffee crystals

tea bags (used)

vanilla extract

cinnamon

acrylic paint (or water base paints)

bleach

olive oil (essential oils for fragrance)

powder fabric dye

ink

water

Slight warning/caution: You may have an incredible desire to

drink coffee and eat vanilla and cinnamon cookies so I suggest you have

something to suffice your cravings while you work.

something to suffice your cravings while you work.

Then adding a piece of paper to the baking sheet, I lightly spritzed it with water, enought to dampen the sheet but not immerse it in water.

Using a paint brush I applied some of the coffee mixture around the edges of the paper. Don't worry about being perfect, we are distressing!

The edges will start to bleed into the middle of the page creating a nice staining effect.

I then used a paper bag (not shown) as a blotter paper to hold the wet

paper. You can use wax paper, paper towels newspaper etc to hold and

blot the wet pieces. Make sure you don't let it dry against another

paper completely, if this happens just wet both papers under the water

tap and gently pull apart.

The next page I covered completely with the coffee stain even across the page image.

After I removed the second sheet, I had an over flow of liquid still in the baking sheet so I used a paper towel to absorb some of the extra.

Normally I like to use a 2 ply heavy paper towel for this purpose, but I just had thin towels on hand today. You are going to love this paper for your art creations, Easy to work with and the colors take so well to the paper towels. Be sure to lay it out or hang it up reasonably flat when it is fully absorbed, move it around a bit before it completely dries so it doesn't stick to another paper.

This next piece of paper is wrinkled tissue paper, in fact it's the little paper that comes wrapped around mandarin oranges in the box. (yes, I save and use it all) Again spritzed with a little water to dampen and then brushed on the coffee stain.

Then I added some coffee crystals in spots for more intense stain spots.

Sprinkled some cinnamon powder

And a little vanilla

Now bake in the oven.......just kidding LOL but now you will definitely

be wanting those cookies! This makes wonderful scented papers, I stain

gift tags at Christmas for a wonderful lasting smell under the tree.

You can use all types of spices and flavor extracts to blend into your papers for a variety of scents.

Be sure to wipe away any granules of cinnamon dust when dry if you are planning to print on these papers through your printer.

I spritzed with more water to help the paper absorb these addons, and

then blotted with paper towel to catch the excess as well as stain more

paper towels. Very nice effect with the darker crystals.

Here's a recycled paper bag ready for staining. I used the spoon to apply and then blotted with a paper towel. This created a different effect. The sopping paper towel works great to get into the gusset of the bag

This last piece of paper I used to absorb the rest of the liquid in the

pan. flipping on both sides and not completely covered. I may come back

to this piece with some other methods later.

Note: if you want darker staining, just leave large pools of coffee for

the paper to absorb. The longer you leave it, the darker it will be, as

well as using more crystals and less water will give a darker finish.

However this will make your paper a little more brittle the less water

you use. Experiment as you go!

This is part 1 of 3 staining and distressing.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

You may feel free to print this tutorial for your own personal use,

however this tutorial and the accompanying photography is copyright Kim

Newberg 2008 and may not be reproduced in part or whole for publishing,

teaching or web usage without prior written permission and consent.

Art Journals

Hi Everyone in blogland,

Yesterday was a snowing blowing day off so I stayed in my jammies all day and made these lovely art journals,
They are 6 x 6 inch and filled with 50 blank pages,(100 sides) and have several pockets to hold tags, tickets or other treasures. Some of the pages are decorated with little bits of papers on the edge but are for the most part waiting for the person to fill with their own muse.

I have embellished the outsides with found objects and luscious fibre trims.

I had so much fun creating these little gems.

Enjoy! Thanks for stopping by!
kim

Art Creations Friendship Page and ATC Artist Trading Card

Hi Everyone,

Just adding some pics of 2 art swaps I just completed.

A friendship page for the PDA Friendship pages group theme: May Flowers. This is being sent to my swap partner Rosie from Australia, I hope she will enjoy..

The other is an ATC/ACEO artist trading card swap for May theme: magic garden. Now waiting to know who my swap partner will be. Hah for once I am ahead of the deadlines for both projects.

If you would like to participate in swaps like these then come and join us on PDA aka Paper Digital Art

 

Thank-you for stopping by!

(((hugs)))

kim

Let Music be your inspiration to Dance 8 x 10 art collage

 This piece is listed for sale on ebay: imagesbykim 8 x 10 art collage on a wooden base.
Title: Let Music be your Inspiration to Dance