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Weathered PaperI love the look of texture paper. It gives dimension and interest to any card or scrapbook layout. You can make a simple card and make it "WOW" just by adding some texture. It's simple and easy to do. Here's how to weather your paper: 1. Spritz water on your cardstock. Be generous with the water you spray on. I like to work over a counter or sink. 2. Now gently start wrinkling and wading up your paper. Open it back up and wrinkle again. Continue until you get the desired amount of wrinkles. I like to work from a corner towards the middle. The paper is somewhat fragile when wet, so if you are not careful, you may get tears in the paper. For some projects I actually like the look of small tears so it isn't always a bad thing! 3. Now take your iron and iron on the paper. I use no steam and I iron directly onto the paper. This achieves two objectives: 1) it dries out the paper; and 2) it flattens the paper so that it easier to use and still maintains the wrinkled look. Iron it until flat and dry.
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4. Now you can use your paper any way you can imagine! In this leaf card, I
stamped the leaf on the wrinkled paper then cut it out and attached it to the card. I also
ripped a small piece and stamped "Thanks" on to it. You can use the weathered
paper for a border. Stamp designs on it and the list goes on. It's a really fun technique
and easy to use. Have fun weathering your paper!