How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

Learn how to age paper following 5 tried and tested methods and ways of combining them to get 8 different aged paper effects.

Want to learn how to age paper in 5 minutes? You'll learn how to stain/ color paper with tea & coffee. Gorgeous vintage paper every time!

Sure, we've all heard of or tried aging paper with tea but what happens when you dump your used morning coffee grounds (grinds) on paper to see if that works too? That's what I wanted to know. For the experiment, I used five sheets of paper; two regular pieces of copy paper and three pieces of medium weight card stock. Actually, the three heavier pieces came from the office supply store in a pack and I think they call it "cover stock" there. The card stock already had a mottled look to it which helped. In the photo above, it is pictured across the top and the white pieces are the copier paper. I should have used a lot more newspaper to protect the floor since this experiment got kinda messy. One piece of card stock and one piece of copy paper got crumpled into balls and then flattened back out before having the coffee grounds dumped on them. At first, just the used coffee grounds were scattered fairly heavily on all the papers and lightly rubbed in. After a while of sitting with the grounds on top, I wondered if the grounds would work better if they were wetter, so the middle card stock and the bottom right copy paper got a drink of coffee too. Well, yikes, everybody got a drink of coffee 'cause it migrated through the newspaper to some degree to all the papers. Lesson learned: if you don't want some of the papers to get wet, put them on separate pads of newspaper. As the coffee grounds dried, they got shaken off so I could see if anything was actually happening to the paper. If you are more patient than me, you could just leave the coffee grounds sitting on the paper longer. I'm sorry to say that neither of the copier papers lived through the experiment...they were not heavy enough. When the remaining papers dried more, a brush was used to get some of the more embedded coffee grounds out/off. Now we have The Crumpled, The Wet, The Dry left. (Remember the Clint Eastwood movie, "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly"?) The Dry is not really dry because it got wet from underneath from the coffee-soaked newspaper. The Crumpled The Wet The Dry The Dry The Wet The Crumpled The coffee grounds' effect is softer in The Wet because they were diluted and dispersed more. On The Dry the grounds embedded more and were more obvious. The Crumpled had to be ironed to be flat enough to run through the copier. Actually, since the iron was hot, I just ironed all of them. The papers were a little thicker after all the moisture they had been subjected to, so they needed to be fed into the copier one at the time and given just a tiny push to make sure that the "grabber" on the copier could catch them. The Dry The Crumpled The Wet The papers were used in a St. Patrick's Day display. All of the papers used in the display had a sort of aged look but the ones aged with the coffee grounds looked (and actually felt) like old papers. The Crumpled The Wet The Dry (I should have taken a better "before" picture of the card stock but you can see in the above picture on the edges what it looked like before much aging. Also, this paper used in the display is not exact but has a similar mottled look to the original.) So, if you want to put your used coffee grounds to good use, age some paper with them for future projects! For other ideas for making paper look old, click on these other posts: Aging Paper and Aging Book Pages. I'm sharing this post over at Mod Mix Monday @ Mod Vintage Life Tutorials, Tips & Tidbits @ Stone Gable blog

How to Age Paper. A collection of fun and easy Craft Techniques to learn How to make paper look old!

How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

Learn how to age paper following 5 tried and tested methods and ways of combining them to get 8 different aged paper effects.

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An easy step by step tutorial on how to age paper without using tea or coffee in the process.

How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

How to Age Paper. A collection of fun and easy Craft Techniques to learn How to make paper look old!

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How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

Learn how to age paper following 5 tried and tested methods and ways of combining them to get 8 different aged paper effects.

How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

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Learn how to age paper following 5 tried and tested methods and ways of combining them to get 8 different aged paper effects.

Antique paper is a wonderful added touch to a frame poem or passage. This tutorial shows you how to get the look in just a few simple steps.

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How to Age Paper. A collection of fun and easy Craft Techniques to learn How to make paper look old!

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This is a tutorial on how to make your paper look and feel really old. I start with plain copy paper... the sort you put in the printer. (I tend to do a batch of 10 sheets in a session and keep them for when I want to use them). I do the process in my kitchen on the counter and cover the worktop with waxed paper. (coffee doesn't harm your worktop, the wax paper has a purpose later). Mix up my witches brew of three or four large teaspoons of coffee into a cup and a paintbrush. Paint the coffee over the surface of the papers... I do about 4 sheets at a time. Dry them with my hair dryer... I could use my heat gun but the hair dryer was up one flight of stairs and the heat gun was down two flights... both work equally well. Turn the papers over and paint the coffee onto the other side. Wash, rinse and repeat until you have the desired depth of colour... I normally do it twice each side. You can see what happens to the wax sheet below the papers... it gets sort of wrinkled and rippled... and it is soaked in coffee so when you place your dry sheets onto it you get a wonderful aged effect staining your pages. See how the marks add to the effect? By now you should also be noticing the other wonderful effect you are getting when you dry the papers... yep, they are stiff and crinkly and feel olde worlde... (I have used tea to dye papers and the colour is less deep and you don't get the crackly effect to the paper). Now your papers are dry and the colour you want... you can add some spritzes of colour or drop ink onto.. and your cup that the coffee is in? Plonk it down on the saturated wax paper and then make coffee rings on the edges of the papers. Now I take them all downstairs to the scrap room and rough up the edges, gently screw the page up into a ball, ink the pages and fold and unfold them, sand over spots to wear them thin and generally just have fun with stamps. NB 1. I have never attempted to put this paper in my printer... because of the crackle I think it would protest. If you want to print on your paper then you are better off using tea to stain it and ironing it dry.. then you can place it in the printer without any problem. NB 2. The papers will smell of coffee... if this is not something you want, then place the papers into a zip up baggie with 2 tumble dryer sheets and leave them for a couple of nights... this removes the coffee odour.

How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

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Learn how to age paper following 5 tried and tested methods and ways of combining them to get 8 different aged paper effects.

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An easy step by step tutorial on how to age paper without using tea or coffee in the process.

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How to age paper - 6 easy techniques to make paper look old and give it a vintage look with materils you already have at home

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