Introduction: Cool Vintage Pictures for Your Wall or for a Book
With a minium of effort You can make beautiful aged pictures wich will have nice vintage look.
Such pictures You can use as a decorations or to make old map or maybe 'very old' book.
What will be needed:
- coffe
- A4 paper
- iron
- printer
Step 1: Aging the Paper
First You need to convert new paper pages into an old one.
Make the coffe and paint papers with it. Do it twice (or more). Then let it dry. If You want regular old pages, then let the pages dry on the flat surface. If You want more natural retro look, then dry the papers on the sun and pour more coffe on them before that.
Step 2: Making the Paper Printable
After drying the paper will have bumps so take the iron and do some ironing.
Step 3: Printing
Aged paper made by method which I'm presenting could be used in ordinary printers. It is flat enough for that.
Now use Your imagination and print some cool graphics. I think, that the best will be black and white pictures, but of course You can experiment with color as well.

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9 Comments
6 years ago
Absolutely wonderful!
What type of key-words have you typed onto your browser to find such suggestive photos?
Reply 6 years ago
i believe that it was something like '
skeletons, retro, animals'
or something like this
Reply 6 years ago
Yay!
Thank you very much
6 years ago
I love this! So simple and looks really good.
Reply 6 years ago
Is there a certain type of coffee that works best?
Reply 6 years ago
Every type coffee will work fine !
Just remember: the strongest is the coffee, the darker will be the paper
You can also buy the cheapest one at the supermarket and apply multiple coats on the paper sheet ;)
6 years ago
These look great! Is there a reason you couldn't do the aging process after printing, and skip the ironing?
Reply 6 years ago
I suppose if you used a laser printer, but don't forget that laser toner (the "ink") is a plastic which doesn't soften with water, so it might pucker or distort around whatever is printed rather than uniformly distorting the whole page.
Reply 6 years ago
Hi,
I think that You can try do as You say, but keep in mind, that if You are using ink printer, then spliting a coffe on the paper could cause ink to dissolve.