Altenew Educators "Anything But A Card" Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway

 

Welcome to the Altenew Educators "Anything but a card" blog hop and giveaway, The hop starts at the Altenew Card Blog Today my post is very different from what I usually share, I'm sharing 3 ways to create your own "faux handmade paper". When I was a child my Mum and Step-Father used to buy eachother the most beautiful cards made from handmade paper, I remember the torn edges and feel of luxury the paper had and wanted to try to recreate this.

In this first example I used kitchen paper, you could also use toilet tissue or Kleenex. I take 4 sheets and lay them on top of each other, I then spritz with water making sure all layers are damp, it's important not to add too much water, you are wanting the paper to compress and stay together. I then added some colour using my Metallic ink sprays and ran it through my die cutting machine with the  Beautiful Bergenia embossing folder. I left the embossed paper on a sunny window sill to dry.

In this second example I used tissue paper from the children's craft section at my local craft store, the process was the same but I chose to add colour with Altenew's Watercolour brush markers. I used the 

Daisy Bed embossing folder.

My final sample shows how you could use crape paper and swinking, If your not familiar with Swinking you should check out Laurel Beard she is the swinking queen. I added the layered cape paper to my Dreamy tiles embossing folder and rubbed an ink pad over the surface and then embossed, the wet paper allows the ink to bleed out slightly giving a beautiful distressed effect.

You could use the embossed papers to create backgrounds, die cut embellishments or like I did cut gift tags from them. I have't added any embellishments to them yet as I am reluctant to cover any of the detail but I think some small die cut sentiments would look really pretty. Will you try making your own Faux handmade paper?

Your next stop is Neha Aggarwal 

Prizes:

$200 in total prizes! Altenew is giving away a $35 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 07/04/2021 for a chance to win. 

There’s MORE! What’s a hop without YOU?! We have included an Inlinkz at the Altenew blog for you to enter your gorgeous Altenew “Anything But A Card” creations. We will pick 2 of our favorite handmade creations from those who joined the linky party and they will each receive a $15 Altenew gift certificate! Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 07/06/2021.

Altenew Card Blog 

Terri Marie Koszler 

Neha Aggarwal 

Bridget Casey 

Tenia Nelson 

Nandini Karmarkar 

Teri Stokes 

Rachael Shedeed 

Fiona Duff 

Eva Bussom  

Nenette S. Madero 

Roteja Galvan 

Karen Brown 

Sandra Woodson 

Helen Kalb 

Penny Pynnonen 

Rosie Neustaedter 

Irina Fonina 

Rebecca Sogn  

Nancy Souza 

Virginia Lu