Hello there,
How are you
all? In my last post here I talked about Neenah Card Stock
which is excellent for regular cardmaking and works the best with ink blending, stamping, die cutting and as a card base . Today, I am sharing few other speciality papers and how they work with different mediums. I am sharing few
other papers we have at Crafters Corner. See, each paper has its characteristic
so read the package carefully to get the best out of it. I am listing few of them with its meaning .
- Acid Free -
Means it has pH 7.0 or higher. In our school chemistry we learned about acidic
and basic substances and their pH scale measures . If the pH is less than 7 it
is considered acidic. Such papers (eg. news paper) deteriorate and become
yellowish and brittle. So your cards and scrapbook will deteriorate over time
if you are not careful choosing your papers.
- Lignin Free
- As we know papers are made from plants. Lignin is a natural occurring bonding element in plants that holds the
wood fibre together. While lignin is not an acid, it does give off acids as it deteriorates.
Therefore if you have a paper that is only acid free, but still contains
lignin, it will become acidic over time.
- Archival
Quality - means paper is acid & lignin free, made from cotton and processed
in a way to make it more durable.
- Cotton Content
- makes paper strong yet pliable at the same time. Cheap papers are made from
wood pulp rather than cotton.
These papers
are made of cotton and cellulose. They are professional grade paper made in
Italy . It is cold press paper which means it has texture. The bumps and dents hold colour pigments very well. It adsorbs water quickly without warping and gives
bright images.
I simply
stamped and heat embossed images from this penny black set . I used various distress inks ( I
don't have distress markers. I love to dab my ink pad on an acrylic block and
use it as a palate.) Die cut is by PTI die. It didn't buckle or warp a bit in
spite of using loads of water and ya, I never tape it down...:P. Use regular
glue to mount it on Neenah CS.
And here goes my first video. (It has a spelling mistake but hey...i didn't have time to correct it). It is very basic and mute but I request you all to go easy on my video making skills...:) I really wanted to share how i use distress inks as water colours.
Hope you will enjoy it. And don't forget to leave a comment.
This paper is
super smooth which makes it ideal for solvent
based markers, felt tip pen, ink, airbrush, pencil & charcoal.
I have used the Altenew stamp with black Memento ink for stamping and Copic markers for colouring. Because of the paper's smooth surface, the marker tip glides very smoothly making colouring so...so easy and gives beautiful blending. And it is little less absorbent which means you use less ink to blend.
For the next
card, I have used same paper for panel . I used Altenew -Figure Effect- stamp
set. Background is stamped in smoke grey-versa fine ink. Added few splatters in
gold. For the panel, I used Hero arts
Ink Daubers to make that little green slope. Both the figures and 'more than
you'll know' sentiment are stamped with versafine-black ink. Added little
glossy accent on heart.
As
the paper is smooth, stamping was super neat. Along with Neenah this is going
to be my go to paper.
3.
In my last post, I worked with Neenah and pigment inks. Today, I used various
dye inks for stamping on Neenah. See the end result.
I used
Papertrey ink stamp to create this fun pattern by stamping multiple times with
various (memento, wplus, heroarts) inks. Die is by papertrey too. I stacked
various colored die cut underneath to give dimension to sentiment. It gives
very elegant touch to the card.
4. You all know about Fabriano paper. It is
textured on one side and smooth on other. Their colors are bright and pretty.
Here i have used the smooth side of white CS as my card base. it is a simple
single layer card with multilayer stamping.
I created a
cluster of flowers using wplus9 stamp and various memento inks. Sentiment is by
Simon says stamp. Smooth side is ideal for stamping. Textured side can be used
as base when you are mounting stamped panel on top of it.
5. Next paper is Brustro Artists'Oil Painting Paper. I don't know how
many of you have used this paper but I used it for the first time and I am very
impressed. It has this unique paper surface which is obtained through
a specialized texturing process. It is similar to linen canvas.
- I applied texture paste using Tim Holtz Stencil and some acrylic colour splatter. I took one portion of a cover plate die cut by Winnie & Walter. I coloured the die cut using acrylic colours with a piece of foam. Added foil in few parts once dried. Added diamond die cut, sentiment and two rub-ons to finish it off. This paper is perfect fit for mixed-media artists.
I loved this paper so
much that I decided to try acrylic colours. I wanted few tags for a friend who
is an artist. So instead of making each tag separately, I decided to make a
large panel and cut it into tags eventually.
I taped down a panel with masking tape and painted a whole
rainbow with acrylics. Once it was dry, I added a wash of white color and drew
some shapes with sharpie. I kept on adding layers till I was happy. I was so
engrossed that I forgot to take pictures in between. Once it was dry I cut the
panel into various tags.
Look at the gorgeous canvas like texture. Love it.
I hope this post will help you to choose a perfect fit paper for your project.
Please leave a comment here if you would like to know about any particular product. I would love to hear from you all.
Keep crafting and be happy...!
Supply List:
Papers :
- Fabriano
Inks :
- Versafine Black, Smoke grey
- Copic Markers
Stamps:
- Simon Says Sending and wishing
Other :
- Ranger Embossing Powder -white
- Gesso
- Thermo web foil and glue
