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Paper Batik Visit DIY's Craft Lab and learn how to create a batik effect on paper. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-129

Guest Elizabeth Dunn joins host Jennifer Perkins to demonstrate how to use clear embossing powder and stamps to make a pattern—and then emboss the powder with a heat tool. She spritzes the page with water then drops ink on the ink spreads and bleeds between the embossing and creates a batik effect.

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Guest Elizabeth Dunn demonstrates how to create a batik effect on paper with your own unique design.

Paper Batik

Project designed by Elizabeth Dunn.

Materials:

clear embossing powder
mulberry or rice paper
clear/tinted embossing pigment ink
rubber stamps
water-based dye ink, liquid (e.g. food coloring)
spritz bottle with water
pan
paint brush
heat tool

1. Stamp image(s) using pigment ink on rice paper.

2. Pour on embossing powder all over stamped images. Tap off excess powder and return to jar.

3. Heat embossing powder with heat tool until all granules are melted.

4. Put the rice paper into pan and spritz surface with water.

5. Dab a dot of one or two liquid inks off to the side of the paper, but in the pan, using it as a palate. Brush on the inks onto the paper, watering down the color by diluting them with extra water in the pan.

6. After satisfied with the results, remove paper from the pan and reheat using heat tool to dry.

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Elizabeth Dunn
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