Coffee Dyed Blank Vintage Paper
Twelve blank coffee-stained pages, from off-white and pale cream to honey yellow and dark tan. No print on them, only the stains, tide lines and creases of old paper.
- In the pack
- 12 digital papers
- Sheet size
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Resolution
- 300 DPI
- Files
- JPG
- License
- Commercial license included
The files are hosted on Creative Fabrica. Downloading is free with their free trial: a payment card is needed to start it, and you can cancel the subscription at any time.
Design by NiftyCraftyHouse.
What is in the pack
The designer modelled the sheets after antique sketchbook pages and made them as base backgrounds for junk journals and scrapbooks, and also for cards, tags and other paper crafts. Because the pages are blank, they take anything on top: handwriting, stamps, a printed poem, glued ephemera.
It is the paper you would otherwise make by soaking sheets in coffee and drying them in the oven, without the mess and without the curled edges that jam a printer. The files are Letter size, 8.5 × 11 inches, and come in one zip file.
Try a paper on a tag, an envelope, a pocket and a card
Ideas for using these papers
- Journal signatures. Print on both sides, fold in half and sew: a whole signature of aged pages.
- Writing pages. Run a printed sheet through the printer again with lines or a poem on top.
- Tags and pockets. Print a template on the back and cut.
- Photo mats. A coffee-coloured border makes a new photo look at home in an old album.
- Letters and recipes. Handwriting on tan paper for a gift or a family recipe book.
Colour palette of the pack
- Cream
#EFEBDF - Beige
#D5C9B6 - Beige 2
#D8C18F - Beige 3
#EBD9C1 - Light yellow
#F3DA94 - Cream 2
#FBF8F3 - Light yellow 2
#D9BB6D - Beige 4
#C3A980
The colours are sampled from the preview images of the designer. Screens and printers show them a little differently, so treat the codes as a starting point for matching cardstock, ink or digital elements.
How a 8 1/2 × 11 inch sheet prints at home
| Paper | “Fit to page” | 100% (“Actual size”) |
|---|---|---|
| Letter | The whole sheet at 94%: 8 × 10 3/8 in | An 8 × 10 1/2 in piece of the pattern at full scale |
| A4 | The whole sheet at 91%: 19.7 × 25.5 cm | A 19.7 × 27.9 cm piece of the pattern at full scale |
One sheet printed on Letter paper at 100% is enough for:
Each link opens the Template Maker with that size ready to print on the back of the sheet.
Printing tips
- Open the file in any image viewer or drop it onto a blank page in a text editor, then choose Print.
- Choose “Fit to page” for a whole small sheet, or 100% to keep the pattern at its full scale.
- Pick matte paper or light cardstock and select the same paper type in the printer settings.
- Set print quality to “Best” or “High” and print one test page before you print the set.
Colours may look a little different on paper than on screen: that depends on the printer and the paper.
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