"Amate" Paper Card: Memory Box meets Imagine Crafts!

Hello My Dear Stamper Friends:

Memory Box is showcasing all through this week at the 3 blogs, projects done by all the DT members featuring "Imagine Crafts Products"...

Here it is my take...

a "Faux - Amate" paper card

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But Let's have 1st a word about "Imagine Crafts"...
It is difficult not to know "Imagine Crafts" products...you may be more familiar with the name "Tsukineko", "Imagine Crafts" is their "new" name...but they  carry the same products (inks and craft accessories) that we all know such as: "Stazon", "Versamark Ink", "Versacolor",  "Versafine", "Brilliance" and many many more...  
They have added some great NEW ones, such as "Memento Luxe", "Delicata" inks and all the "Radiant Neon Pigment Inks" among many more...

So Today, I posted this project at the English blog for Memory Box: "Outside the Box" (PM Post) using Memory Box products along with some "Imagine Crafts" inks.

If you want to check out my other takes for the language blogs:

I have 2 other projects made using both company products...

1- To see my "Tuscan, afternoon card" 

go to the French blog: "Un brin de Créativité"

2- To see my "Acetate Ornament Snow globe card" 

go to the Spanish blog: "A Crear se Dijo!"

As for my project here today,  to better understand my post, I have to talk ...

  

 1st,  about the Name: 

what is "AMATE"?

"Amate" is an adapted word used in Spanish from the Nahuatl language (from the Aztecs). 
It is a form of paper that it has being produced in Mexico since the Pre-Hispanic times. 
It was and still IS handmade by the "Otomi" indians of Mexico. 
Back in the Pre-Columbian times  these were used to paint codices depicting stories, events or astrology. 

Nowadays we can purchased them in any craft market in Mexico and they depict colorful nature scenes. 
Here is one that I have ...

The paper is made from the bark of the fig tree giving unique shades of color and pattern to each sheet...see detail below...

and this frame made with "Amate" paper 

was the inspiration for my card and for this tutorial...

How to make "Faux-Amate" paper...

Let's go step by step.... 

1-  take some brown wrapping paper, wet it, crumple it into a ball, open it, let it dry!

2-add "Memento inks" in "rich cocoa" and "desert sand" shades

  this is how it looks...

3- place and secure the "Memory Box- Bloom" stencil over it and sponge with "Inkblushers" sponges the "VersaColor" ink in "Lapislazuli" color

note: these inks are pigment, very juicy, vibrant and great for this technique!

4- Wash the stencil as you will use it next...

in a tray place it flat under the sink and brush it with a nailbrush using mild  hand soap.

5- dry the stencil by placing it flat inside a roll of paper towels...

6- place and secure back the "bloom stencil" and place inside the "Brilliant Peony". sponge the center with "Memento Luxe" in white

7- outline with a black marker the edges, doodle some designs and with white acrylic ink add dots

8-final look...

9- add "faux" stitching with white acrylic paint and a pattern tracing wheel (used for "quilts") along the 4 edges

10- mount the final project on some cardstock...

here is how I store all my "VersaColor" cubes and "Memento" ink dew drops...

 

And here we are we have created a "faux-amate" project! 

I hope you will give it a try

remember to see my 2 other projects!

1- A Tuscan afternoon card

2- An "Acetate Ornament Snow globe card"  

Thanks for the Visit, 

love your comments

and tomorrow 

I will be featuring a special post 

with a well known company as well, 

stay tuned!!!

Challenge # 3 ongoing

closes on Nov. 4th
sponsor: Paper Crafter's Library

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