Paper bag--we used grocery bags
Brown (or black or maroon, etc) acrylic paint--we used Setacolor fabric paint
Pellon 72 (73?) double-sided stiffener (or your favorite stiffener and sticky stuff)
Fabric for the lining of portfolio
Envelope or folder to hold things in your portfolio
Glue--we used Tacky Glue
Sewing Machine (optional--for binding)
Fastener optional (elastic to go around binder, ribbon and button etc etc)
To Make "Leather"
Step 1: Open paper back to lie flat.
Step 2: On inside of paper bag, do a light wash of paint. We used about 1 part paint to 10 parts water, and got the whole bag wet, but somewhat splotchy.
Step 3: Let dry completely. The patient people can do this by waiting a day. Some of us are impatient and use a hair dryer to speed the process.
Step 4: Crinkle up the bag into a small a ball as you can get it. The flatten it out. Crinkle again. Repeat 3-4 times until it's nice and wrinkled. Spread flatish.
Step 5: Daub on full-strength paint onto the bag. The goal is to rub the paint over the top layers of wrinkles, but leave the gullies without paint in them. It looks good to have a little more paint here, a little less there. Try to keep the paint on the top--not down in the holes.
Step 6: When it's dryish, iron flat.
You've got yourself a piece of "leather." See the next post for making the portfolio.
7 comments:
great tutorial for fake leather :-)
Ooooo, I can think of several applications for this! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the instructions. I plan on using this to make journals for the kids in VBS to draw pictures of the stories as we go through the week. These will fit nicely with the Outback theme.
This looks excellent! The results are clearly a step above most paper leather tutorials. Does the paper have the right 'feel' aftwerwards, though?
Chances are I'm going to use it either way, but that sure would be a nice bonus, haha.
Adam-
Thanks for your comment. The end product ends up looking like leather, but not feeling like it. It's glossier than leather, and of course not as sturdy (I wouldn't want to leave it in the rain.)
Good luck with your project!
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