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Good morning, everybody - and happy Monday to you all.
We have a slight technical hitch with Kelly Jean's challenge so here is the one that was scheduled for next week.
I thought we'd try something a little different today! Let's have a go at paper casting - or paper moulding.
You will need to allow some drying time for this before you can complete your card - but I speeded mine up considerably by sitting the paper on my heater.
All you will need is some water, a stamp with a well-defined design but not too much fine detail, and a few sheets of toilet paper or kitchen towel. I'm taking the kitchen towel on faith from reading up - mine is too heavily textured and coloured to try with.
Moisten 4 or 5 layers of toilet paper, it should be wet but not dripping. Lay them over your stamp, tear the edges to make it a suitable size, and press them down over it, making sure to press it well into all the stamp details. Remove carefully and allow to dry; obviously if it's not over-wet it will dry faster!
Here's a video you can watch: it's long, but the first five minutes is all you need. I didn't stamp mine afterwards. I did try stamping with a stamp inked with markers, but personally didn't like the look I got. Feel free to try it
Remember to use the keyword TLC582 when you are uploading. It's helpful (to the hostesses for sure!) if you come back and leave a link on this thread . it's especially advisable if you post a card more than a week after the challenge has been posted ;-).
If you're not sure how to link your card on the thread here, here's how:
1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one window for your card and one for this thread.
2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link.
3. Go to your card window. Highlight the address for your card. (It says www. splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showphoto..... and so on)
4. Click EDIT. Click COPY
5. Go back to this thread. Click PASTE.
Cute! I thought you were going to tell us to get our blenders out for this one!! I have never heard of doing paper casting with paper towel or T.P. Fun!
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I have mine drying - I did one in paper towels and one in TP -- we shall see if it turns out! Sounds like a lot of fun Sabrina!!
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I actually tried this technique a few years ago and it turned out pretty cool! I probably won't have time to play today but thought I'd provide another example...as you can see I colored mine..
There's a typo in the gallery link Sabrina (it has 583 rather than 582).
I should probably try this again - mine have always fallen apart when I've done it in the past (spray starch seems to help keep it stuck together when it's dry)!
There's a typo in the gallery link Sabrina (it has 583 rather than 582).
I should probably try this again - mine have always fallen apart when I've done it in the past (spray starch seems to help keep it stuck together when it's dry)!
Thanks, Joanne. I thought I'd got all the dates and keywords etc changed. I know I did the gallery too...but maybe that was when the WiFi connection dropped on the bus coming home from work and then I missed it second time round.
Hmm, I made 3 samples about three weeks ago and they have all held together no problem. I messed one up colouring it, and the other one is still on my desk waiting to be used. I think my spray starch is buried so far down in the ironing basket that I'd have trouble finding it.
Polly, that's fab!! What did you colour him with? I tried a green frog, but made too much of a mess to use him on anything.
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Originally Posted by peeps321
I actually tried this technique a few years ago and it turned out pretty cool! I probably won't have time to play today but thought I'd provide another example...as you can see I colored mine..
Mine is dry. I am working on a layout for it now. Very fun technique. I was a little bit disappointed when I tore the edges to get rid of the surrounding toilet paper, as it lost a bit of the starchiness but the technique worked well!! Will be back as soon as it's done and photographed!
I made two in case I failed! They are both still drying. Someone mentioned starch. I just got a can the other day so I was thinking of trying it. Do you think I should spray both sides, and should I spray before I color it?
I made two in case I failed! They are both still drying. Someone mentioned starch. I just got a can the other day so I was thinking of trying it. Do you think I should spray both sides, and should I spray before I color it?
I don't know, Kathy. Niki mentioned that hers peeled apart, but I had no trouble at all with the three trial pieces I made. Maybe not all toilet paper is equal!! I dont buy the luxury brands. I don't think I'd spray before colouring, if you do try it.
Maybe I'll try it on the one I'm least likely to use.
Sounds like a plan to me, Kathy.
I was on the phone to my dad when I typed the first response to you, so I couldn't type too much. I think if you sprayed with starch first, it would make a coating which would affect applying the colour. I can't decided whether it would make the paper more or less absorbent!!
I thought this through a bit more. Wet starch will wet the paper again. I probably should have sprayed it at the beginning if I planned to use starch. I did spray it lightly now, but maybe not enough to help because I didn't want to totally mess it up. Mine is still drying. I just put it on the window sill since the sun is bright. Its taking too long to dry for my short attention span! LOL
Well, I had another go at this technique. I wasn't happy with my first one... trash can. Second one I posted with the cupcake.... not happy with it and as it sat on my desk the glue I used to adhere it to the card made it lose all it's detail. I photographed it before the glue completely dried, once it dried it just looked like a napkin on a tag. So... you can guess where that tag is now....Now I am a little bit stubborn and I hate giving up. So I tried it a third time. What I learned...
1. Mine were extremely fragile. The less I touched it the better.
2. Make sure it completely dry before moving it.
3. Try tearing the tissue before starting so you move it less.
4. There are also 2 side one that is embossed and one that is debossed. The debossed ones held the definition a little better.
5. Use stamps that don't have a lot of detail. More open images worked better.
6. Pearls, lace, ribbon, and burlap can make any card pretty. (Even with toilet paper on it)
Here is my card:Third time turned out better by MariLynn - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
Mine is up!!!! I love how it turned out! Thanks Sabrina for a great technique challenge. I hope I made sense on my description. I will edit later....I made three cards today and I never do that so I have pushed my time limit and now everyone is home with lots of commotion.
I have several drying now!! What I have found is that the stamps with the foam backing, in other words the ones that are thicker, give the best impressions.
Tried a fern and the detail was not as good as I would have like it to be.
Found on one site that you could also use a heat gun to speed the drying up.
I have one other paper casting to finish but here is the first one which I have joined with the FS challenge from Sunday for Barbara and with the CAS challenge for today as well. Barbara's Chickie by pvilbaum at Splitcoaststampers
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Kitchen towel step? I think it's bedtime, I've read both Ann's posts twice and I don't see it.
I'm also surprised that some of you are finding them fragile. My unfinished pieces were in the litter on my desk for almost a month before I finally made that flower card a week ago, so they got thrown around a bit and sat in piles without being any the worse for it.
Oh well - I know I have had my own Waterloo challenges (water stamping!! salted backgrounds come to mind straight off...and I see other people producing gorgeous examples of both), so my apologies and sympathy to those for whom this was a struggle.
Some sites have you use a kitchen towel to try the stamp off after applying the water, others suggest using paper towels to help remove some of the water.
I used a towel and then a heat gun on one to see if it helped.
Never use water based glue on the toilet paper, another fact I found and forgot to mention!
Ok, I am done with this for a while, I love to search for information, LOL must be the genealogist in me!!
You're not missing anything, Sabrina. She didn't say kitchen towel, she said to remove excess water, which I saw in the video. The person in the video used a kitchen towel. And don't be sorry....we can't grow if we aren't stretched!
I tried this technique years ago, and the instructions I used said to use diluted PVA glue to moisten the layers .... wasn't very kind to my stamps even though I washed it off immediately., so it is good to know it works with just water
I'm not sure about this. Mine took 2 days to dry, but the humidity has been 100% here. i have another piece I might try later, but here is my first attempt..
Well, my friends, it is with much trepidation that I share my wrinkled paper card to the paper casting challenge gallery. So many participants made beautiful cards with this technique. Me, well, I struggled!
Well for a challenge that caused me so much angst . . .here I go again . . . I found one of Monday's castings laying on the window sill this morning. since I grew up in hard times we were well taught "waste not, want not" so here is my 4th attempt at a paper casting card.
TLC582 ~ Paper Casting ~ {04/18/2016}
!!! This looks like an interesting challenge! Everyone be on the lookout for next week's "Pencil Me In" TLC 
