An experiment with vellum

While cleaning up my messy desk I found a small piece of vellum. This is Pergamano vellum which is thicker than the vellum you find at Michael's or Hobby Lobby. It has been a long time since I used vellum on a card so I thought I would experiment and see what I could do with it using an embossing stencil. This is the result.

What I found was that although it is pretty easy to emboss the vellum it is not so easy to cut it. As you can see if you look closely the cutting isn't very straight. To cut  through the vellum requires a lot more pressure than cutting cardstock. Also, embossing vellum stretches it and leave it wrinkled as you can see on the top left corner. I used vellum adhesive to attach the vellum panel but I only used a small piece in each corner and on each side. I should have run it all the way around the sides I guess. Well this was an experiment and I will know next time! The flowers are from a 3d sheet from my stash. The stencil I used is Anja Style corner stencil FE 6105. It is a great value as it has 4 different corners on one stencil. You can find it HERE

Back to creating!

I hope everyone had a good holiday and that Santa was good to you!
I did do a little creating right before the holidays, just playing around really. Here are the results.

I usually don't do Valentines day cards but I love this stamp from Stampin Up!

This is a card I made for a swap. The stamp is from a clear set I bought at Michael's a while ago.

I usually don't do ATC's but I found this pattern for a parchment craft (also known as Pergomano) ATC and had to try it. After doing the embossing on vellum I cut it out and mounted it on black cardstock.

My other experiment with vellum was to trace a stained glass pattern with gold ink and then color on the back side with colored pencils. It was long and narrow so I decided to make a bookmark with it. I mounted the vellum on white cardstock and then cut an aperture in pink cardstock. I didn't have a tassel to add to it but I will either find one or make one at a later time!

Frugal Friday

COLORING ON VELLUM

What does this have to do with Frugal Friday? What could be more frugal than a free image! There are free images all over the internet. All you have to do is save them, resize them, print them on copy paper and trace them onto vellum. Look for stained glass patterns and clip art and of course sign up for the free samples from Dover. Here is a clipart site to get you started. On this post you can find a download for a free program to resize your images as well as a tutorial on how to do it.

I made this card with a free parchment craft pattern I got from the internet. You can get the pattern and directions HERE. Instead of using the floral image that came with the pattern I used part of a free image from Dover. As it is from a long time ago I have a download HERE I colored the image on the back with Prismacolor pencils.

The vellum paper I am using is from Pergamano but any cardstock weight vellum would be fine. You can get it at Papertrey Ink. The vellum you generally find at Michaels, Hobby Lobby etc is not heavy enough to take the embossing.

If you just want the soft look of coloring on vellum the lighter weight from the craft store will work. Print or stamp the image on regular printer paper and then trace it onto the vellum. To get the very fine line on the card above I use a mapping pen and white acrylic ink. You can get these in any art department.You can use a white gel pen but you will not get the fine line you get with a mapping pen. Of course you can use any color pen you want to do the tracing or you can trace with a white pencil, color on the back and then erase the pencil mark from the front.

For this card I traced the image onto vellum with a black Micron pen 005 which is a very fine line. Instead of coloring the petals I used a stylus to emboss the petals slightly from the back. The leaves and centers are colored with pencils on the front.

Sorry for the angle of this card but I wanted to show the gold outline. I traced the image with a gold gel pen, you can see the difference in the thickness of the line with a gel pen versus a mapping pen or fine Micron pen. I colored on the back side with colored pencils. You can color on the back or the front but coloring on the back gives a softer look. Both colored pencils and markers work well for coloring.

Have fun with coloring on vellum!

We don't see things as they are....

This image is another one I got free from Dover Publications. This time after printing it out I traced it onto vellum, colored it with Prismacolor pencils on the back and cut it out. If you enlarge the picture you will see that rather than cut it out with scissors I used the parchment craft method of pricking all around the edge and then snipping between the holes. Very time consuming and I won't be doing that again!

The frame is made with 2 sizes of Nesties Labels 1 cut and embossed from watercolor paper with the Cuttlebug. I used a gold leaf pen on the edges of the frame and on the centers of the flowers. The flowers and frame are raised up on pop dots. I ran the green CS through the CB with the Swiss Dots folder and the card base is watercolor paper.

You Are Special

As well as playing with PSP I also decided that I would do a little parchment crafting. Parchment crafting is the name of the craft, Pergamano is a company that makes parchment crafting supplies but like tissues and Kleenex they have become interchangable!

This card was made for no reason except that I liked the border. Let me tell you though it is very time consuming and I will not be doing a lot of it! I could probably have made at least 5 cards in the time it took me to make this one and there is no lace on it! For some beautiful eye candy take a look HERE. Enjoy!

Pergamano

A few years ago when I went home to England to visit my sister and she introduced me to Pergamano. It is paper piercing and embossing on heave weight vellum paper.

This little dress has a lot of piercing and embossing and took a loooong time to make!


This card is pierced and cut out on parts of the front to show the pattern on the back. The coloring is done with oil pastels on the back side of the front of the card. The coloring technique is called dorsing.



These flowers are on the back of the card and the front is cut out. The flowers are colored with markers.


This card has a lining of patterned paper. In real life the background doesn't look gray because it isn't pressed up against the front. These pictures are scanned because they came out better than in a photograph with my lack of photography skills!


This last card is also lined but this time with cardstock. There is no piercing on this card only embossing and the sentiment is a sticker.

I haven't done any Pergamano in a long time. Maybe I will do some more seeing as I bought all the tools and a lot of books when I was home. The trouble is I can't part with them when they are finished because they take so many hours to do!