Instant Coffee Tinting Technique Tutorial

This is how the technique looks once it is dry

This is a great and easy way to get a vintage feel from your paint.

Ingredients
Substrate - Tag with vintage collage background
Acrylic Paint - Golden Glaze
Paint brush
Palette
Patience

Paint with instant coffee before blending

Steps

1. On a palette, mix acrylic paint and instant coffee.  If you don't over mixed you will get spots of dark brown.

2.  Paint your substrate.  If the paint is too intense you can use a dry brush technique or spray with water to lighten the paint.  I painted a tag with a collage of vintage papers.  I used a dry brush technique.

3.  Let dry.

This technique was used on the background of this tag.  

Instant Coffee Staining Technique

This technique is a way to age paper with something accessible at a grocery store or a dollar store.  It creates some dark patches where the crystals dried on the paper.  

Ingredients

Paper - copy paper

Water in a spray bottle

Instant coffee

Spray box - Plastic box

Patience

Steps

1.  Place paper in the spray box.  I use a plastic box with a flat bottom.

2.  Soak the paper with water.  I used a spray bottle of water.

3.  Sprinkle the coffee granules on the paper.

4.  Let dry.

 

The main image is stamped on paper stained with instant coffee