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I was in a stamping store today and another customer was talking about making faux suede by stamping and painting/colouring on kleenex. she told me I could find the directions on youtube but I can't find anything like it. she called it faux suede but the only techniques I can find for that involve killing card stock with a bone folder and aren't at all what she said she was going to do. Does anybody know this technque or can you point me in the right direction to find info about it???
TIA
Don't know if this will help but I used tissue on a wall with flat acrylic paint to get a faux suede effect. Maybe you could try gluing it to card and swiping it with a chalk ink.
pigtail1 - how did they do it??? Did they use the tissue to apply colour or did they colour on the tissue???
The lady said that the kleenex was where the colour was applied and that you could paint on it somehow. I gotta say I'm stumped. I've googled and checked youtube where she said you could find it and nothing. I'm thinking she got the name wrong or something but I can't find anything other than using kleenex to wipe ink off after you brayer over something that's been embossed. May just have to start experimanting I guess.
I'm not sure but you may be referring to a technique I saw. You aplly acrylic paint with TOILET paper, not tissue paper. As you are daubing it, the toilet paper kind of comes apart and stays in the paint on the card front or whatever. It is a way cool technique. Very simple and pretty inexpensive. I think I saw it on Pat Huntoon's website.
I don't think it's that exactly but I'm wondering if it isn't brayering on kleenex. Thanks so much for the pointers. I'm going to be making faux snakeskin and faux cordoroy and then I think I'll see what happens if I brayer on top of kleenex.
The only tech I know for faux suede is using liquid applique(LA):
Put some LA on wax paper, roll brayer thru it to get a good heavy coating, then roll over whatever you're trying to cover. ( card, paper mache box etc.)
Let dry to touch (approx 1 hour/ if using a very heavy coat let dry over night)
Clean brayer immediately (this is important!!)
Heat completely with a heat tool- to get mottled effect heat some areas lightly others completely.
Note: if you are using 2 colors of LA do not heat all areas heavily or the colors will mix.
This tech came from an old issue of expressionart magazine Sept/Oct2004
Also I think Krylon had a suede texture spray but i don't know if its still available.
Good Luck
pigtail1 - how did they do it??? Did they use the tissue to apply colour or did they colour on the tissue???
The lady said that the kleenex was where the colour was applied and that you could paint on it somehow. I gotta say I'm stumped. I've googled and checked youtube where she said you could find it and nothing. I'm thinking she got the name wrong or something but I can't find anything other than using kleenex to wipe ink off after you brayer over something that's been embossed. May just have to start experimanting I guess.
use tissue paper like you use in gift bags...stamp on it...crumple it up a few times...layout flat and sponge some colors on it...put glue on cardstock..lay on tissue...and trim or fold edges...use on card
but i think the brayer and ink on kleenex/toilet paper would produce a better "suede"...and experimenting is how we discover...so...
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I say the woman in the stamping store used the word kleenex when she meant tissue. Doesn't that make more sense. How many times do we say one thing and mean another?...LOL tissue, kleenex, tissue paper
Thanks for the comment. You may be right. I don't know. But what she said was that you painted ON the kleenex and that made the finished piece feel fuzzy, like suede. she didn't say you painted WITH it. I don't know.... I think I'm just going to experiment and see what happens... But if anyone has anymore ideas I'd welcome them.
I posted a video tutorial to my blog tonight that is how to make a paper carnation AND faux suede technique. No kleenex or tissue paper involved, but I think you will be amazed at the feel of the paper (just like suede) if you follow my folding and separating directions. You can do it with any size piece of paper, I just happened to make flowers with mine. Here's the link to my blog, hope this will help you:
Wow Mary!!!! What lovely flowers. They are amazing. I'm going to definitely have to try making some carnations and I also looked at your ruffled flowers. You can see the texture in your carnations!!!! Thanks so much for posting that for me. Do you know once you've made the suede if you could stamp a bunny or something on it and then colour the paper with watercolour markers to make the bunny more dimensional???? I'm still hoping to find this kleenex thing but I've sort of stopped holding my breath. When I finally get to do my experiment I'll let all of you know how it went. It all hinges on my studio getting finally finished before I can actually MAKE anything. Thanks again Mary!!!
1. You definitely can stamp on image on the textured (suede) side.
2. I used both a watercolor crayon (coloring in the image) and a blender with the crayon color on it. Because the paper has been split in half AND the fibers broken down, the rubbing causes the paper to tear no matter how careful you are. You also have to be extremely careful on how much fluid as it will cause the paper to ball up too.
So if you want to just stamp .. yes, that will work and gives a good look. If you want to water color with crayons, pencils, or inks then no. Rubbing like you do when you color in an image, not good either.
I was in a stamping store today and another customer was talking about making faux suede by stamping and painting/colouring on kleenex. she told me I could find the directions on youtube but I can't find anything like it. she called it faux suede but the only techniques I can find for that involve killing card stock with a bone folder and aren't at all what she said she was going to do. Does anybody know this technque or can you point me in the right direction to find info about it???
TIA
Perhaps the ladies technique was this one:
You will need a rainbow pad, a brayer and two squares of Cottonelle toilet paper. (tissue??) Trim the TP squares down to 31/z" X 5". Use a guillotine style cutter because the paper will tear with a slide cutter (or use scissors & cut slowly). Ink up your brayer and roll the ink over the TP completely covering all the white areas. Let the ink dry.
To use: Attach the piece of your Faux Corduroy to a sturdy piece of card stock with tape or light glue on the card stock- then lay tissue
on it. Press lightly and gently to adhere.
Faux Corduroy is really pretty and looks like the real thing with the lines on the TP
Hope this helps.
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I kill card stock by running it two directions through a crimper and wadding up and straightening it out and then peeling it apart. (it almost comes apart on it's on. the inside of the paper looks just like suade. I then just use brown distress ink over it and you'd be amazed at how "real" faux it looks! Good luck!
Thanks alot for that info too. I've done the kill cardstock thing myself. But never the way that you're doing it! I may have to try it that way - sounds like its a faster death...Thanks!!! But this technique the lady talked about involved kleenex... I have a feeling I'm not ever going to find out what she meant... But that's OK because I've gotten some other awesome ideas from you guys to try.
Kleenex suede technique
