I've been having some fun playing with yupo paper. If you don't know, yupo paper is a "plastic paper", (now that's an oxymoron). It's non-porous and in our world of papercrafts it's used mostly with alcohol inks and markers for making backgrounds. I've found several tutorials on YouTube and thought I'd get out my plastic gloves and see what I could create.
(You definitely want plastic gloves while playing around with a variety of alcohol inks, it can be very messy, and I found, when the alcohol ink got on my fingers, it dried the skin around my cuticles.)
You can heat set yupo paper with your heat gun, but you must keep it moving and not hold it in one place too long, otherwise, (remember this is plastic), you'll have a shrinky dink card. (I know this to be true, LOL).
The inks you'll want to use for stamping on yupo should be Stazon or Archival Inks. In my card, I used Ranger black Archival ink. Beside the alcohol inks, you'll need some 91% alcohol for helping you move the ink around the paper.
Also, you'll want to seal background piece, when you're ready to use it. Alcohol inks, can be reactivated unless you seal it. I used a light coat of Kamar Varnish, which I purchased at ACMoore craft store.
My card uses TJ Stamps #S661 "Growing Wild" and #SDX083 "In My Prayers".
Here's another example of playing with yupo that I posted on my blog last week.
For one more day, you can grab the Technique Junkie February release stamps at a 15% discount. You don't need a code, it will calculate upon check out. Easy peasy.
I hope you get some crafting time today - it's fun there.
