TUESDAY TIPS - Faux Silk Technique

Can you see "wrinkles" around the butterflies? That's "Faux Silk". I think maybe at next week’s stamp camp we will make a card using this Faux Silk technique.

Here’s how it works. Those of you who are attending camp are getting a pre-lesson!

What you need:

cs: white (precut small piece)
white tissue paper (cut slightly larger than the cs) (you can just use tissue from a gift bag)

Glue stick & scissors
Stamp & inkpad

Here’s what to do:
1. Stamp an image on the tissue.

2. Crumple up the tissue into a little wad, like you sometimes do when throwing something away. Instead of throwing it away, uncrumple (is that a word?) it to flatten it enough to be fairly flat, but don’t “iron” out the wrinkles.

3. Rub a glue stick over the entire surface of the cs.

4. Press the tissue down onto the sticky cs. There should be lots of wrinkles on it – smooth the tissue down gently, wrinkles & all. You want the wrinkles there!

5. Trim the edges with a scissors – it trims easier if you wait until it dries.

6. Now finish your card!

Maybe you could use the card map I gave you yesterday for an easy first faux-silk card!

Tomorrow is Whatever Wednesday – hmmmmmm – I’ll surprise you.

Linda :)