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In today’s post, a video tutorial featuring; Tiger Paper. Tiger paper is my name for the background papers I produce using particular distressed inking techniques.
You Will Need
- Ranger Color Wash inks, in three colours. I use Stream, Denim and Eggplant in the video
- A larger spray bottle of water
- Gloves, this is a messy technique ;)
- A plastic box to spray into
- Blank newsprint or copier paper
- Cardstock
- Mini Mister bottles (optional)
- Sponge
- Plastic mat or similar to protect surrounding areas
***It is important that you protect the area, around your spray box. These inks do tend to spread and any unprotected surface may be inked if you do not protect it ;) ***
Method
Use a variety of different card stocks, each kind will give a different effect. Suggestions for cardstock to try:
- Water Color Paper with a texture
- Mat Board
- Coated card (laser printer paper could work)
- Glossy Card. Works very well.
Links
To find stockists of the products used in the film, here are links to their manufacturers.
- Ranger
- Tim Holtz product range, including Color Wash, with colour charts
- Cre8tive Online, UK stockist of Color Wash Inks
The finished projects featuring Tiger Paper, used stamps from;
More details on the Finished Projects, featured in the film
- ATC
- Clip Board
Tiger Paper is great fun to make. I hope you give it a try, do show me the results if you do. If it isn’t working for you, try different cardstock. This is one of those techniques where results vary, depending on the card you use.
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
Billie :)
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Billie –
Loved this video. The papers are just beautiful. I will have to pick up some of the Adirondack Color washes and give this a go. I really love the ways the papers came out.
Elaine
Hi Elaine
So glad you liked this film :) It’s a great fun technique, you get different results from different card stocks and varying the amount of colour you add.
I would recommend putting the colour wash into mini mister bottles. The original bottles are great but do spray for miles!!! An empty grocery box would be ok to spray into but will also quickly saturate with ink. The box I’m spraying into is a cat litter tray! Needless to say we don’t have cats! but it did give a large enough area to take a whole sheet of A4 paper/card in the base ;)
Have fun with this technique, its quite random in the results but makes great backgrounds to stamp onto.
Best wishes
Billie :)