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how to turn paper to vintage antique

These pages are perfect for a smash book of fun or a journal to fill with special memories. 

Preheat oven to 250 degrees

Drop 10 tea bags into boiling water

Steep 15 minutes

Pour brewed/steeped water into 9×13 pan

Tear a few pages out of composition notebook. 3 pages at a time to soak seems to work best

Crunch paper into a ball as though you would in throwing it away

Uncrinkle and lay out flat into brewed/steeped tea water in 9×13 pan

Soak 5 minutes

Remove paper and lay out on towel. One page at a time, lay on a cookie sheet. Use blow dryer and crinkle with hand.

Place in oven and bake 2-3 Minutes. Remove from oven. Let cool on a towel

Lay hard object on papers to flatten crinkles.

Change water/tea bags steeped after 2 different batches of paper.

Use hole puncher to place in journal of smash book or journal.

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