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Aged Parchment Mothers Day Poem - Cheap Mothers Day Gift - Priceless to Mom!

Print a mothers day poem onto aged parchment paper and turn it into a mothers day gift.

This is one handmade mothers day gift that any mother will love to receive from her child. No doubt that this is a very cheap mothers day gift but any mother will be so enchanted by this unique handmade gift and will surely treasure it forever.

Here are the art supplies and step-by-step instructions to make this aged parchment mothers day gift.

Supplies Used For Making This Mothers Day Poem

white or off-white colour cardstock (A4 size)

candle or tea-light

lighter or matches

walnut ink or unsweetened black coffee

spray bottle

heat gun

iron

string

wet cloth

Instructions For Making This Mothers Day Poem

For this mothers day project, I chose the following mother’s day poem ‘More Than A Mother’ by Kari Keshmiry.

You can copy this mothers day poem and paste it into Photoshop or Microsoft Word, resize it and change to any fancy font you like.

Or if you like, you can also download this ‘More Than A Mother’ poem by clicking here. This will open up a pdf file. Just print it out onto your faux aged A4 size cardstock. Just follow the instructions below to make this aged parchment mothers day gift.

Pour your walnut ink or unsweetened black coffee into the spray bottle.

Spray randomly over the A4 sized cardstock.

Dry with heat gun.

Turn over and repeat the above.

When you find that you like the look, use an hot iron to flatten the cardstock.

Put it into the printer and print the mother’s day poem.

Light the candle.

Hold the cardstock on your left hand and a piece of wet cloth on your right hand.

Burn around the edges of the cardstock.

Be careful to stop the burning with the wet cloth.

It’s better to burn a little at a time stopping the fire from getting big with the wet cloth.

For the burnt patches on the the cardstock – find spaces between the printed words of the mothers day poem.

Put the cardstock over the lighted candle and let it burn.

Be careful not to let it over burn onto the printed words.

Turn the cardstock over and let the lighted candle leave soots on the mothers day poem.

Do not over-do it.

When done, crumple the cardstock slightly

Tear the edges which are not burnt and dab with the coffee or walnut ink to age it.

Dab some of the ink on the string and let it dry.

Roll the mothers day poem and tie with the aged string.