Stamp Zia's Ginkgo Paper Materials: Hot Press Watercolor Paper - Arches140# Wood Board or Foam Board for stretching Paper Waterbased Colored Inks - FW Acrylics or Luma Pearlescent, any metallic ink or powder Pressed-flat Ginkgo Leaves Spray bottle w/ H2O Weight for pressing, large enough for covering stretched paper (heavy stretcher board or ¼"plexiglass sheet) Process: 1) Soak and then stretch watercolor paper on board.

2) Working outside, where ink runoff will not stain or harm your yard, pour or spray inks on paper surface. Move inks around by spraying with H2O.

3) Place flattened leaves onto the inked paper surface and weight down entire area, leaving it in direct sunlight to thoroughly dry.  i

4) Remove weight and then carefully pull off leaves.

Hints: *I can reuse the leaves if I'm careful to save them as they are removed from the paper surface. *You can experiment with different soaked and stretched paper weights and surfaces, as well as by varying the amounts of inks you pour.

*It may take you a couple of trys experimenting to find the leaf look you love! *I like to weight my leaf paper down with heavy Plexiglas so I can watch the sun do its thing.