Hello,
Have you :
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made them ?
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received them ?
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thought about making them ?
Please show us if you have them
As for me, I have not tried making them but would love to!
Hello,
Have you :
made them ?
received them ?
thought about making them ?
Please show us if you have them
As for me, I have not tried making them but would love to!
I have both made and received paper-woven cards as we had a few groups on that topic on the Handmade RR. I also have to thank @taebbig for teaching me how to do it!
I’ll try and upload a few examples:
Wow they look amazing!
I would love to try this technique, but I don’t even know where to start.
@wurzelsofie could you tell us in a few steps how to do this?
Do you do this with postcards or with magazine pictures that you glue onto postcards?
There are many tutorials on YouTube that explain it a lot better than I ever could! It’s really easy and has amazing effects - it’s always kind of a surprise when you see the finished pattern.
I do this for postcards using old bookpages, magazine cut-outs or simple crafting paper; depending on how you cut the slits (straight or curvy) and the width of the paper strips you’ll get different results.
For postcards I use two sheets of postcard-sized paper (one as base and one cut into strips) and then glue the finished paper woven sheet onto card stock. I also laminate the front because otherwise the cards would inevitably get damaged in the mail due to the uneven surface of the paper-weaving. But I sent all these paper woven cards without envelopes and they all arrived safely!
@wurzelsofie How do you laminate the front? They really look awesome. I’ll give it a try when I have time in my Revalidation…
I can show you how I did it:
I took 2 same size paper woven cards and put them exactly onto each other - the woven sides were on the outsides, the writing side on the inside.
Then I put them into the laminating foil and carefully into the hot laminating machine. Afterwards I cut the eges (leaving a few millimetres of the foil around the card) and carefully pulled both layers apart from each other.
The picture shows the back of one of the cards.
These are two cards I made that were still in my stack until earlier today. I just did a little bike trip to the mailbox and posted them
When having a closer look at the back of both cards I realized, that I used a much more complicated laminating technique with more cutting and waste involved. Usually I do as described above when laminating handmade postcards. (Though I do so not very often.)
I once wrote a German description of how i do it
Thank you for sharing! And I am supposed to receive the one above you showed for the Handmade Offer tag, which is going to be my very first one to receive as for paper woven cards
Greeeeat stuff!!! Thx for Sharing! And even @taebbig thx for the Tutorial, also @Reisegern for the lamination explanation!!!
I made some Paper Woven cards, too, and will show it asap!!! Pls be patient!!!
UPDATE:
Here they are…
I particularly like the eye one! The red and the written paper go together really well in colour, and the curve of the weaving highlights the eye effectively
I just gave this a go today, making two simple woven cards using two pairs of vintage postcards showing the same place
Thank you for your nice words!!!
And I noticed you’re right!!!
I never thought of doing this before seeing these threads on the forums. Can I send them naked without paying the non-machineable surcharge?