Category Archives: Stationery & Envelopes

Wood You Be Mine – Real Wood Valentines

Handmade Valentines are a great way to show someone you care. We created these tongue and cheek Wood Valentines using Cherry and Rustic Cherry Wood sheets and the “wood you be mine” pun. Supplies for ‘Wood You Be Mine’ Valentines: Rustic Cherry 6×12 Adhesive Sheets, Cherry 6×12 Adhesive Sheets, Cherry Wood Tape, scallop notecards and envelopes, electronic die cutter, heart cut file, Valentine rub-on image transfers, flower […]

Real Wood Labels

Real Wood Designer Labels Last week we revealed the awesome new lines of real wood products. Today we are back to show you more inspiration using our real Wood Labels. The label sheet features 26 unique designs. These shapes are great for card making, packaging, scrapbooking and general crafting. Today’s project features adhesive backed Birch wood design […]

CHA Mega Show 2015 – New Real Wood products

We are showcasing our exclusive Real Wood products and all of our exciting new products at the Craft and Hobby Association show this week. Last week we showed you a new product, ChalkTalk, and this week we are back with more new products being revealed at CHA Mega Show 2015. Real Wood 6″x12″ Sheets We have some […]

Wrapping up the Holidays with a Real Wood Altered Book

Happy holidays and good tidings from ETC Papers! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have exciting plans for the New Year. We are wrapping up our holiday projects with an altered book featuring all of the various Real Wood finishes we offer. Altered books are a labor of love and are a great way […]

Embossing Real Wood – Fall Card

It’s been a while since we shared some card inspiration. This week’s fall card features Cherry and Birch woods. Real Wood embosses amazingly well! You can add more visual dimension to any Real Wood sheet with a little texture embossing. On our Hello Fall card we dry embossed a sheet of Birch wood with a […]

Real Wood & World Card Making Day!

It’s October 4th and today is World Card Making Day! Yes, a day just for us card makers. We joined in on the card making fun and created a ‘World’ themed card using Rustic Cherry Wood, Cherry Wood and Birch Wood papers. For more information about WCMD visit the World Card Making Day website. We […]

Real Wood Butterfly Mixed Media Canvas

Hello! We are back this week with more mixed media inspiration to share. As we mentioned in a previous mixed media blog post, we love to incorporate wood into our artwork. The ‘Butterfly’ home decor piece we are showing you this week was created on canvas using a variety of inks, papers, and finishes. In […]

Shadow prints with Real Wood & SolarFast

This week we got a chance to try our Wood papers with Jacquard SolarFast dyes. SolarFast dyes work great with paper and natural fabrics and we found these dyes are also great to use on wood paper! We did a few image and time tests and ultimately created some shadow prints with leaves and twigs. […]

Real Wood mini collage book

Two weeks ago we showed you how well Wood can work with Mixed Media. Our projects this week are similar and show how awesome Wood works with collage art. Wood paper is a great base as well as an accent for any type of project. These mini books have been covered with Wood paper and […]

Real Wood Friend Card

This week’s project is a small notecard which features both Cherry wood and Rustic Cherry Wood. We love how our Cherry wood layers with our Rustic Cherry Wood. Tonally they match well and each accent the other nicely. You can get a similar effect when pairing White Birch Wood and Rustic White Birch Wood. Supplies for […]