How Do You Make Antique Looking Decoupaged Paper?
• If you are a coffee drinker at home, then start saving your coffee filters. • When coffee is done, make sure that wet grounds have cooled. • Remove coffee filter from machine and shake off extra grounds into trash. • Have a special plate/bowl set aside for the specific use of saving filters. Here, place your filters, even with some grounds still on them, and allow to dry. • When you feel you have collected a sufficient amount for your project (keeping in mind that this will be a layering task) brush off extra dried grounds from filters. • Begin to tear filters into strips and pieces of all shapes and sizes. • Now, using modge podge, or elmer’s glue watered down slightly, begin to cover one side of coffee filter strips. • When piece is ready, apply to surface you wish to decorate. Repeat step with another piece. When you feel that you have covered your surface enough, allow time to dry and apply a ‘sealing’ coat of the modge podge.
