Pergamano Parchment Craft
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This is a demonstration of the Pergamano parchment crafts starter kit. Pergamano is a craft that was developed in the Netherlands and it has become increasingly popular in North America. When you buy this kit, you receive the instructions and the patterns for making these five projects that are shown here on the front. So, the kit itself contains several sheets of parchment paper and that is what we will be using to make the projects. It includes a pad like this similar to a mouse pad, you will be using that when you do the punching. The kit comes with a bottle of white Tinta ink that is used for tracing the pattern. It comes with a pen, this is the tracing pen. This is the embossing tool used for embossing to get the nice raised effects. And this “I” tool is used for stippling and perforating. You also receive one dorsal crayon and this can be used for tinting the back of your projects to give them a color. The dorsal crayons come in many colors but this is the one that comes with the kit.
The projects in this book are arranged in level of difficulty. I am going to start with the good luck gift tag which is the easiest project to do, it is number one in the book. So to do this, you take some scrap, some craft paper, this parchment paper is just a scrap but I am going to use it to demonstrate. You fold it in half. This is a gift tag so you are going to need a front and a back. So you fold it in half, position it so it is right on the fold and then use a paper clip or possibly Repositional glue to hold your tag in place.
Next, using the Tinta ink and the pen, trace the design onto your parchment paper. On the front of course you will trace the complete design and on the back just the outline and I suggest you practice on a scrap of paper first because the pen can be tricky. I have now traced my design on the parchment paper. This is the back. I have just gone along the edges as you can see. And this is the front where it says good luck.
Now, the next step will be to do some embossing. So, using the embossing tool and using the pad, we turn the paper over and I am going to emboss the flowers. I am going to emboss the text and I am going to emboss around the little squiggle like things here. So to emboss, you simply do like that and be careful not to tear through the paper, so you just go around like that and it creates a lovely grayish white raised effect on the front. The embossing is complete. As you can see the white is raised and it is much more visible than it was before. I have embossed on both sides.
Now the next step is stippling. For the stippling, you use the stippling tool, this sharp pointed tool and the stippling movement is a short staccato movement like this. And your goal is to make small raised marks. If you might be able to see there are small little dots here. But you do not stipple so hard as to tear trough the paper. Now on this particular project, when you stipple you work on the back and for best results work on cardboard not the pad. So working on the back, I am going to go around the inside of these squiggly lines and I am going to go around the outside of the flowers. I have now stippled around the areas that I have said that I was going to and I confess to not being the world’s best stippler. If you can see there is a little row of white raised lines on both sides.
Now, when that is finished the next step is to perforate. You use the same tool. The same technique but with perforating your goal is to cut through, you are actually going to perforate the paper. So for this card I am going to perforate around the outside of these edges, so that is the next step, all around the outside of the edges on both sides. I have completed the perforating. When perforating is done correctly you can simply tear your design out of the paper because the holes are made very close to the other. If it does not totally tear well, trim it a little with scissors. So here is the tag, backwards and forwards.
Now optionally, you can add a hint of color using a product like this dorsal crayon. This is a Pergamano product and here is an example of how it looks on paper. So you could if you chose perhaps working on the back, put a little color underneath the white flowers. I am going to do that and I will be back in a minute. So here is the completed project. As you can see I have now added a touch of color using the crayon behind the flowers on the back and this now completes our paper parchment project.
June Campbell
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