Today, many young ladies are fond of such an applied art as scrapbooking. They make manually all kinds of notebooks and albums, which are sometimes so beautiful and unique that they can be easily put up for sale and ask for a lot of money.
Notebooks that look almost like antique are especially fond of: yellowed, rumpled, slightly scorched, as if they had passed through a revolution and war. Such diaries look vintage, stylish and unique, because even artificial aging of paper cannot be done exactly the same. If you are tempted to get such a glamorous album for recordings, clippings and photos, then you can start making sheets for him even now. Choose any of the methods you like to give a plain printer paper a shabby look and start the fun process.
The first and most common way to age paper is as follows: make a strong brew of black leaf tea (200 to 250 ml are taken from five to ten teaspoons of tea), insist it for ten minutes, filter and pour into a tray (a plastic will fit) paper tray). Next, take a piece of paper that you want to see battered and outdated, and drop it in a tray with tea for a couple of minutes. Previously, the paper can be crumpled a little (straighten before diving), so that there is more effect. Now we remove the sheet from the tea leaves and put it on a flat surface so that it dries out. You can try drying on a clothesline, as photos were previously dried by hooking it onto a clothespin. Carefully iron the dried sheet with an iron. You can make aging paper even more realistic by putting a couple of blots from the tea leaves on the sheet. And you can carefully, observing fire safety, scorch the edges with a candle or a lighter. Then your sheet will surely acquire a “post-war” look.
The next method, how to age the paper, is similar to the previous one, but in
the place of tea used coffee, and ground natural. You need to pour five teaspoons of coffee with a glass of boiling water and hold for ten minutes under a tightly closed lid. After this, the solution must be thoroughly decanted and left to stand for a few more minutes so that the entire sediment settles. Further, the procedure is the same as in the “tea” method, with the only difference being that the paper needs to be kept in solution a little longer - about five minutes. If overexposed, the sheet finally softens, and you can only remove it in parts.
And another interesting way to age paper. He will need about 150 ml of fatty, preferably homemade milk and a soft thick brush. Although you can use a foam sponge. We well coat the wrinkled (or not wrinkled, as you want) printer sheet with milk on both sides and leave it for a while so that the paper is saturated. After that, let the sheet dry and iron it.
There is an even more natural way to age paper. But this requires summer and a lot of sun. It is advisable that for two to three days the paper is exposed, albeit not too intense (to avoid ignition), but still attacked by sunlight. During this time, it will turn yellow by itself.