After I made the coffee-stained tags for the Artist’s Circle project, I had coffee left over and so I decided to pull out a bunch of my scrap paper and stain that too.
This included everything from pages pulled out to thin out books for altering, to fake checks included in my junk mail to tissue paper to lottery tickets (not winning ones, obviously).
I used all the various techniques that I used on the tags – soaked them in the coffee, dribbled some over the top, sprinkled dry crystals and salt over the wet paper, and laid various objects over the top and left them to dry.
I got some really interesting results as you can see. And now I have a nice stock of coffee-stained paper to use in future projects.
[...] ATC was fairly simple to make. I reached for my stock of coffee-stained paper and found some text that contained words like “love,” “divine,” and [...]