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Visual Texture When I find a technique I like such as Momigami I like to explore potential, this time I concentrated on visual texture. Momigami charms and flowers from magazines, very organic. Momigami is truly amazing, in addition to how soft paper becomes (tactile) all the images and forms almost become like a paintbrush. Charms And Flowers What you’ll need: Momigami paper (magazines) Charm base, (packaging, index cards, watercolor paper, card stock, anything sturdy) Book pages, coffee dyed or tea dyed paper (for flower bases) Paper punch or scissors Glue Flower shaping stylus, metal crochet hook or any hard round...

More momigami I have really been enjoying exploring momigami paper and all of the things I can create with it. This project combines my love of flower shaping with momigami to create these beautiful paper flowers. A great scrap buster project. Paper flowers What you’ll need: momigami paper scraps dies (dies are necessary) Tutorials This project combines techniques as seen in previous videos shown here at right. The button in the center of the flowers is just a smaller version of the button clip.  flowers These flowers can be used to embellish journal covers, make special gift tags or turned...

Momigami Button Clips...Tactile Dimension During exploring how to use my Momigami paper I came up with these dimensional button clips to increase the tactile experience of the paper as I wanted to keep the beautiful feature of this paper kneading technique that results in paper that feels like cotton. Button Clips What you’ll need: Card stock (or file folder) Foam, dimensionals, card board, chip board (you will be using this to stabilize your shaped top circle) Paper punch, I used a circle. A shape you can sculpt to achieve dimension. I also tried a die cut heart. Stylus, crochet hook,...

Faux Momigami   I am always in search of paper techniques to use for mixed media and I am often disappointed in the results after trying to create any ‘faux’ technique. This paper kneading technique is one that didn’t disappoint. Just in time for Valentine’s Day I am in love with this technique. Finally, I can use paper that feels and looks like fabric without adding the bulk of fabric. Momigami is a traditional Japanese paper technique using Mulberry paper and starch that was incorporated in to fabric design. It often includes gold or looks marbled. Momigami What you’ll need:...

New create with me Remember the February fun you had with your little box of Valentine’s that your Mom bought you to hand out in grade school? This whimsical and very pretty kit takes you back to those days where you can mix, match and create as many Valentine’s as you desire.  This is part of my Create With Me series on YT as a promotional and it is offered there as a free download. Find other free kits on YouTube, a new one created about every month or so. Also available in shops.  I had a lot of fun...