Watercolor Paper

[PinkBugStamper]

I'm wanting to color my digis using watercolors with the help of a blender pen, unfortunately the watercolor paper is too thick for my printer. Any suggestions on paper that will go through a printer and hold up under water? Thank you. :confused:

[mamachak]

Are you using actual watercolor paper? You could try a small weight paper, 140lb cold press is usually sold in a pack and it is not expensive. It is very close to heavy cardstock. Hope this helps.

[PinkBugStamper]

Thank you! Unfortunately the 140 lb paper doesn't want to feed into my printer but I did find today a 90 lb watercolor paper pad. I'm going to give this a try and I hope this works.

[stampinmomnh]

I think I use the 90 and it works fine. Did you also check to see if you printer has a cardstock option? Some printers have that setting especially if they are photo printers.

[PinkBugStamper]

No I didn't! Thank you so much.

[toyabrown]

I tried coloring my digi using watercolor paper and water color pencils. I got alot of smearing.

[PinkBugStamper]

I spray the digi with Krylon Fixativ and let is set before I color and this seems to work. The 90lb watercolor paper seems to work fine. Thank you all for your help.

[traceydawnn]

If you have a photo printer and a heat emboss gun, you're set! No smudging.

I haven't found a way to get 140lbs. watercolor paper through though. :(
Holly Young, from Squigglefly, once told me that you can set you printer to a thicker paper setting, but I haven't been able to figure it out on my printer.

[PinkBugStamper]

I do have photo ink and heat gun. That will work faster than the spray. When you hit "File" the "print" in that window there should be a "properties" button and that is where you can make your selection for paper. I have a Canon and I can make the paper selection under "media type". Good luck.