If you're like me, you buy sheets of gorgeous washi paper but can't bear to cut into it or use it. While I'm trying to work up the courage to use the real stuff, I've been making my version of washi paper. You'll need a lightweight paper, I used rice paper but plain old copy paper works just as well, spray colors such as Smooch, Glimmer Mists, Color Wash or whatever you have that's in a spray bottle or make your own with water and re-inkers, an iron, stamps, perfect medium ink and white ink, perfect pearls in colors of choice.
1. Mist your paper with colors of your choice until you get the coverage you want. Let dry. When dry, iron to flatten paper.
2. Stamp whatever images you like using a perfect medium pad and apply perfect pearls in colors of your choice. If you don't have perfect pearls, stamp your images with metallic inks. Stamp accent images with white pigment ink. Of course, you can stamp your images in any type of ink you want, I just like the shimmery look of perfect pearls.
3. Use your faux washi paper as a background and decorate your card however you like.
Looks good doesn't it :)
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this is beautiful Kathy! yes, i'm like you. It's very hard for me to cut or use those Beautiful papers, other than just LOOKING at them, and smiling! LOL! :-)
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