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I am guilty - I have been hoarding mulberry paper. It is beautiful and I have collected some (I dare not say how much...) I guess I am a bit afraid to use this semi-pricey paper and have been waiting for "just the right moment" to use it. Well the time to decrease the collection and actually use it is here NOW.
Any hints or tricks to using this special paper??? Please share...
I did look through the gallery and saw examples. Show me your favorite card or other project using mulberry paper, please!
don't know if anyone has told you that you need to use a wet q-tip or somehow wet the area you want to use. for instance - use a wet a square the size you'd like and then pull the mulberry paper away - it is the easiest way to "tear" the paper and get the effect you're looking for. of course it dries really fast afterward and you don't notice the wet parts.
I forget to mention that mulberry paper shreds/tears better with a more random pattern if you lightly moisten just the edges before you tear. I like to use my aquapainter, but a wet finger or watercolor brush would do.
Here's one I did last week. I love how it looks behind acetate!
I used to hate using mulberry paper cuz I didn't know how to tear it - nobody ever told me to wet it. Now I love it and I need to use it more. Thanks everyone for posting their examples...you are inspiring me to pull out my stash!
If you would like to see what the mulberry will look like before useing your semi-pricey paper : use "used dryer sheets" tear and experiement with. You can also use dye inks to color the dryer sheets. this make faux mulberry paper. It tears like mulberry looks a lot like mulberry and feels like mulberry.
I don't know what kinds of mulberry paper you have, but if you google 'tear bears' (rhymes with Care Bears) you will find some super-cute animals made from tearing fine-grained mulberry paper.
Here's one using the technique called 'polished mulberry' (stamp and emboss on the mulberry (I used white EP on white mulberry) then 'pounce' color onto the mulberry using a cotton ball inked-up with 2-3 reinker colors)).
And here's another card using 'unadulterated' mulberry.
-Mary
I love the flowers. Did you add a little glue into the mullberry paper to get it to hold shape or is it just twisted. Joyce Pacer
I just did my flowers by wetting the paper. After I wet and tore the paper to the approximate shape, I wet my fingers and refined the shape and they dried and held their shape just fine.
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I love this scrapbook page I made using mulberry paper. I used a light yellow paper but didn't have the right shade of pink--so I dyed it a sponge dauber and a Pink Passion ink pad. It was so easy to color the small pieces I needed for the flowers! I was also very pleased to discover that double stick adhesives work great with mulberry paper. I was able to attach the acetate cover sheet to the mulberry paper with small pieces of adhesive and you couldn't see it at all. I gotta play with this stuff more often!
I place my paper in a shallow pan that I use for crafting. Then I place ink and water in spray bottles and spray or use directly and drop colors on to paper the paper spreads out the color.
A great look is to emboss stamp designs on to paper in white or clear then place in pan and drop ink on to.
Thanks ladies for all of the card examples & techniques using mulberry paper. I found a package yesterday that I completely forgot that I had & had no idea what to do with it. Thanks to all of you, I have some ideas that I can try out.
__________________ Picture is of the real rose dipped in 24K gold that my husband gave me before we were married.
don't know if anyone has told you that you need to use a wet q-tip or somehow wet the area you want to use. for instance - use a wet a square the size you'd like and then pull the mulberry paper away - it is the easiest way to "tear" the paper and get the effect you're looking for. of course it dries really fast afterward and you don't notice the wet parts.
As soon as I saw tips for mulberry paper I thought of water too but I do a little different technique and it's less of a mess by using the aqua painter/water wand to apply the water. Wow, when I learned this water trick I couldn't believe how easy it was to tear! Good tip!
Mulberry Paper
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