How Do You Make Paper Look Old?
Creating paper that looks old is not as hard as you may have thought. All it takes is some common household items and a little time and practice. • Make a really strong cup of black coffee. Use about eight times as much instant coffee powder as you would to drink. • Get a container (plastic will melt) that is a little bigger than the piece of paper you are using, like a 9×13″ (22 cm x 33 cm) baking pan. It can be shallow. Paper is thin, so you don’t need a very deep bath. • Pour about 1/4 inch (6.3 mm) of coffee into the bottom of the container. • Put your piece of paper into the liquid. Let it float on top, so that the coffee seeps through the back. • Using a spoon, spoon the coffee over the paper until it has a thin covering. Leave it for about a minute so that it absorbs the tannins. • Carefully, so as not to rip the damp paper, transfer it to another tray that has no coffee in it. You may want to hold it up for a second to let any excess coffee drain away. • Using your finger-nail
Old paper is amazing. The way it looks, feels and smells evokes all kinds of great memories. Making regular paper look old is an easy and fun way to add a little extra kick to all of your projects. There are many different methods you can use to make paper look old. Here are two of them, which can be used interchangeably. Step 1 Preheat the oven to 150 degrees. The oven will be used at the end of the aging process to dry the paper. Step 2 Use the instant coffee crystals to make a 6-ounce cup of hot coffee. Make the coffee up to four times as strong as you usually would, adding extra crystals as desired. Brew a 6-ounce cup of hot tea. The finished product will be lighter or darker depending on the strength of the tea and coffee. Step 3 Pour either the coffee or the tea into the baking pan until it is about 1/4 inch deep in the pan. Paper is thin so you won’t need much more than that. Reserve the remaining coffee and tea to refill the pan as necessary. Soak paper, one sheet at a time, in
• Make a really strong cup of black coffee. Use about eight times as much instant coffee powder as you would to drink. • Now is a good time to set your oven to 200 Degrees Farenheit for step 7 • Get a container (plastic will melt) that is a little bigger than the piece of paper you are using, like a 9×13″ (22 cm x 33 cm) baking pan. It can be shallow. Make sure that the paper is not so thin,so you don’t need a very deep bath but just enough. • Pour about 1/4 inch (6.3 mm) of coffee into the bottom of the container. • Put your piece of paper into the liquid. Let it float on top, so that the coffee seeps through the back. • Using a spoon, spoon the coffee over the paper until it has a thin covering. Leave it for about a minute so that it absorbs the tannins. • Carefully, so as not to rip the damp paper, transfer it to another tray that has no coffee in it. You may want to hold it up for a second to let any excess coffee drain away. • Using your finger-nail or a spoon, tear little holes i
