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Steampunk Paper..with tutorial

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Tutorial:

-Put paper into a cookie sheet. (I used plain old printer paper)
-Make one or two cups of black tea.
-Pour them into the cookie sheet.
-Wait at least five minutes, then take the paper out.
-Set paper somewhere to dry. Be careful not to rip it.

Notes:

If you're soaking a huge stack of paper all at once, you NEED to manually make sure the tea gets at all the paper, otherwise the middle parts of the middle sheets will still be white.

Just so you know, your paper will be a lot more brittle than it started out as....just like if it had aged a hundred years or so. (pluses and minuses...)

I bet coffee would work just as well, but I haven't tried it yet. If you give it a try let me know how it works out.

It has been suggested below that if you use watercolor paper, it's less brittle (because it was designed to soak up water) and looks a lot like parchment when soaked in coffee.

I think the longest I've ever left anything sitting in the tea is twenty minutes. Try experimenting with leaving it in longer.

Go here [link] to find free full-page steampunk-y diagrams. Before soaking the paper, use it to print them out.
This will make your paper look even more steampunk-y.

When I'm not trying out new crafts, I make wire-wrapped jewelry in a spontaneous, fantasy-inspired style. Check out my gallery here: [link]
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petrino's avatar
i used green tea. gave the paper a copperycolor, you know when copper goes oxydizin and goes green.