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I vaguely remember reading somewhere or watching a YouTube video that showed a paper pad that was nothing but colored textured wood grain papers (vibrant colors like red, orange, turquoise). By textured paper - I mean paper that has the woodgrain embossed into it - like the Tim Holtz woodgrain paper that only comes in white. Does anyone know of such a paper pad?
Maybe I just dreamt about it - but wouldn't it just be dreamy! LOL
If you are wanting the raised embossed kind, why not just get one of the many woodgrain embossing folders out there and you can make whatever color you want??
BTW - I googled but couldn't locate what you were looking for. Lot's of printed woodgrain though.
Thanks for the suggestion about using an embossing folder - I guess I can go that route, but the woodgrain embossing folders I have seen all very thick designs. I like that very fine woodgrain pattern like Tim Holtz uses on his paper. But using an embossing folder might just be the way to go for now.
Haven't looked on line to confirm this hunch but it could be a Tim Holtz collection for Core-dinations paper. Saw some at JoAnn's a few years ago and the colors were awesome.Mary Beth
My favorite delicate Woodgrain texture plate is by PaperTreyInk, it’s called wood grain Impression plate. The design is realistic looking and makes fine line embossed design. One side of the metal plate makes a design for portrait style card the flip side does landscape (the link shows how this looks). The plate works in Cuttlebug or BigShot with a thin rubber pad and regular plates. I had it for many years and it’s still my favorite!
Love your card, Susy. And I was just getting ready to recommend Papertrey's Woodgrain Impression plate to grandepuce. Sometimes I ink it up with Versamark ink before running it through; that adds the slightest touch of shading, but is oh so pretty. And that would work with colored cardstock very well.
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If you want to try and make you own paper it is really simple and if you use Distress inks you can make it any colour you want.
here is a card I made and there is a link to the tutorial I did on my blog.. Woodgrain Tutorial by k dunbrook - at Splitcoaststampers
If you do not want to use an embossing folder Tim Holtz has a Distress Wood grain paper made by Ranger. It is white and you can color any way you want.
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If you do not want to use an embossing folder Tim Holtz has a Distress Wood grain paper made by Ranger. It is white and you can color any way you want.
Joann has 12 x 12 woodgrain textured by American Crafts. Right now they don't show white & black, which I bought before, but they do have a grey-ish and kraft, (I have kraft) and now show a Chestnut, but it looks printed. (Have to check American Crafts website direct for more info)
The 3 I have are a subtle texture, and a good weight. Joann has cardstock Half-off now.
Joann has 12 x 12 woodgrain textured by American Crafts. Right now they don't show white & black, which I bought before, but they do have a grey-ish and kraft, (I have kraft) and now show a Chestnut, but it looks printed. (Have to check American Crafts website direct for more info)
The 3 I have are a subtle texture, and a good weight. Joann has cardstock Half-off now.
Please don�t take offense at the following comment, I�m only weighing in because I have experience with this. I bought some of this cs last year from Jo Ann�s. Com and I was very disappointed with it. I thought it was really whimpy for weight and the texture was so subtle that it hardly showed. I bought it in 2 colors, one was a really odd taupe color that goes with nothing else that I have, and I can�t even remember what the other color was. They were a good price, on sale, and I think I got free shipping, so at least I didn�t feel like I overpaid for the product. Personally, I would not recommend this product to be used for card making. It would be ideal for scrapbooking, though, which is what it was intended for. Just my 2 cents on this American Crafts Woodgrain texture 12 x 12.
No offense taken. This is really the very lightly impressed woodgrain I wanted. I don't use it for the card body because it's probably comparable to less than 80 lb weight. I use it for front panels.
I also have embossing folders for heavier woodgrain when it's appropriate. I just LOVE the woody look and make lots of cards for guys (I have 5 grandsons).
Those are the BEAUTIFUL real wood 'papers' I'm not talented enough to afford.
If it makes you feel any better, those real, honest-to-goodness wood veneer sheets are very fragile. I bought a few different wood varieties a few years back, thinking I would use them to make really cool die-cuts. Imagine my chagrin when I discovered that the diecut wood would literally crack apart on the grain line, if I was so lucky to get it out of the die without ruining it. :confused:
I tried adding a backing to the wood panel before diecutting to keep it from splintering apart, that didn�t help.
I�ve occasionally used the veneer sheets as panels on a card. Mostly, I have a lovely collection of unused wood sheets. And as an added aggravation, most of the wood sheets have curled as they have dried out, making them even more of a challenge to use.
So maybe it�s a good thing you don�t have any of the �real wood�. Good luck in your search for that special Woodgrain paper pad you wanted! I�ll keep my eyes open for it.
I mentioned recently that I saved the metal cutter off a box of tape once, this is one of the reasons I did so.
I make my own wood grain paper with ink pads and then scrap across the paper (one direction only) with my 'tool' to create subtle texture. What a difference it makes and if white show thru then I just run one of the lighter ink pads across the paper again afterwards.
Textured Woodgrain Paper Pad
