Special Guest Artist: Lourdes

Hey there all, it's Pam sharing a special guest artist with you named Lourdes. She has been a featured artist once here before and you can see her amazing post on created Chinese Lanterns here.  You can also read her bio at that link as well. To read up on all of the neat thing Lourdes is creating now, please visit her blog here: http://tarjetasydetallitosenpapel.blogspot.com/ . Lourdes is sharing a cool distressing technique with us today. I love the look of old distressed embellishments. Today you can learn how to create them as well!! She creates such neat projects.. enjoy this tutorial!!

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How to create backgrounds: coffee staining

By: Lourdes

Materials:

·         Tissue Paper

·         Spray bottle with water

·         Coffee

·         Tray

·         Absorbent paper

Instructions:
1. Place the wrinkled tissue paper in the tray
2. Spritz water on the tissue paper

          3. Sprinkle the coffee over the moistened tissue paper
4. Spread with your hands, the coffee over the whole surface. Leave it in the tray for 10 minutes.

          5. Then, carefully remove the paper from the tray and put it over an absorbent paper.
6. Place another absorbent paper over the stained paper and leave it dry 4 hours

     
  7. Once the paper is dried, remove carefully all the coffee grains and VOILA!

You can use it as background for your scrapbooking projects, cards or even tags, as the example showed here

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Thank you Lourdes for sharing you time and talent with us!