Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: 5 Ways to Use Freezer Paper
Hello everyone, welcome back to the latest tutorial in my Studio Monday series! Have you ever utilized freezer paper in your crafting projects? Originally meant for storing food in the freezer (hence the name!), this versatile tool has since become a staple tool within the crafting industry. If you are a quilter, odds are you’ve used it for transferring patterns onto fabric. :) Additionally, freezer paper can be helpful to papercrafters too! I have used it in the past for various techniques and today we are going to look at 5 of my favorite ways to use freezer paper.
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #1: Protecting Your Work Surface
If you are a crafter that loves to get messy with like me, the benefits of having your surface covered with freezer paper are endless. Freezer paper has both a coated and uncoated surface, depending on which side you have it flipped to. When you have the freezer paper with the coated-side up, you instantly have a non-stick surface covering your work table (similar to a craft sheet). Any medium can be applied onto the freezer paper and most easily wipe off; this means you can reuse the sheet over and over and over… you get the idea! ;) Even liquid adhesives can be easily wiped off.
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #2: Perfect with Alcohol Inks
I’m sure most of you have seen that alcohol inks are all the rage at the moment; freezer paper is a great surface to work with alcohol inks on. It is especially fun to do alcohol ink smooshing on too! The slick surface of the paper allows the alcohol inks to be reactivated and re-smooshed almost limitlessly. They also clean up easily on the freezer paper; or you can simply throw the sheet of freezer paper out when you are done with the inks, making clean up a breeze.
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #3: Distress Ink Smooshing
Speaking of smooshing, Distress Ink smooshing is equally as fun and easy with freezer paper! In the same way that alcohol inks can be reactivated, the coated surface allows Distress Inks to be reactivated also. You can make stunning backgrounds and textures with the ink smooshing! And because the Distress Inks are a water-based medium, they wipe away effortlessly, again letting you reuse the freezer paper over again!
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #4: Using as a Watercolor Palette
If watercolor is your thing, freezer paper could be a very useful tool for you, especially if you like to place your watercolors on a palette. Watercoloring on freezer paper not only protects your work surface underneath, but you also have a “palette” to work from too! One of my favorite reasons for using freezer paper as a palette is the fact that it is white, allowing me to see the colors in their true form.
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #5: Perfect for Masking and Stenciling
Do you like to create stencils with your dies, but find that your “stencils” wear out quickly? Freezer paper is a perfect remedy to that situation! Again, we’ve got that awesome, slick surface to use to our advantage. I adhere the uncoated side of the freezer paper to a sheet of printer paper (making the paper a bit more sturdy) and then cut the entire piece with my die of choice. Once cut, I am left with a non-stick “stencil” that has multiple benefits to a paper version: 1. it will resist the ink applied over it, 2. you can wipe it clean with a damp cloth when finished, and 3. it can be used over and over again! I encourage you to check out the video below to see all these ideas demonstrated. I think you will find that freezer paper could be a very versatile tool in your crafty projects too! As a side note: all of the designs and techniques you’ll see during the video will be featured in upcoming videos on my personal blog for Simon, along with finished cards! Today’s tutorial was about the freezer paper itself; so stay tuned! You’ll see those tutorials coming up later this month! Thank you so much for visiting with me today; don’t forget to subscribe to our blog and YouTube channel, as we post crafty inspiration for you daily! See you soon!
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Thanx for the great ideas!
Great tips, Nina!
I’ve heard of freezer paper but I’ve never used it. I must get some!
Thanks for the cool ideas
Wow! Fantastic tips and ideas here. Thanks!
A lot of great uses!! I have some deli paper here, I wonder what I can do with that?? Thanks for all of these fun ideas. Thanks for sharing .
Very cool idea. Freezer paper — who woulda thunk.?
Awesome ideas!
What inky fun!! I am going to have to try this one out!!!
Amazing! What a great video. Love the whole idea of saving my craft mat to cover work space and making beautiful messes on the freezer paper – genius!
Thanks for the great tips. I always have waxed paper on hand……
Who would have thought that freezer paper would be such a great tool in cardmaking, etc. That was so informative and thank you for sharing with us.
Great suggestion for use of freezer paper. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
I’m saving this post-great ideas!!
Great ideas for using freezer paper. It is always nice to learn new ways to use different products.
So beautiful! Love thid !
All excellent wonderful ideas of ways to use freezer paper.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Thanks so much for these tips ! Sadly since I’m in France, I don’t know the equal product here….
Good ideas – and I use freezer paper for hand cut stencils/masks – great idea to die cut them!
So beautiful! Love this!
Great trips! I know years ago I used freezer paper and even ironed it on fabric to cut out my shapes and pieces. Thanks for reminding us how useful it is.
Terrific ways to use freezer paper, thanks for sharing these tips. I look forward to seeing your tutorials on the various projects you showed in the video today!
Terrific ideas – thanks so much Nina-Marie! I have all of the items you used in your video, so I’ll just have to get busy!
It’s always great to have suggestions of how to use things we already have around the house and save some money for the craft items we really want! Thanks!
Wow, such clever and beautiful ideas!
I like the idea of using it as a stencil. Thanks for the tips!
Lots of great ideas, thank you!
Fabulous tips today!
Looks like it can be
used for so many
different reasons.
Carla from Utah
Fantastic ideas!!… Thanks so much for sharing!!
Fantastic tips – thanks so much!
I didn’t know about freezer paper, great ideas.
Love the idea of using it for a masking paper! Great tip!
Hmm. I have lots of butcher paper that I use for some of the things shown here, but I may have to add freezer paper to my roster now, too!
Thanks for sharing these very useful ideas. I’d love to incorporate some of this into my crafting.
Thanks for sharing the info on freezer paper. I never knew it could so all these things.
Wow, I cannot believe the great ideas you have shared with us in regard to the many uses of freezer paper. I am going to the grocery store first thing in the morning and play around with those tips.
Awesome tips for using freezer paper! I’m bookmarking this one.
Wow Nina-Marie those are awesome tips. I would not have thought of a few of them. I am going to put my giant freezer paper role in my craft room now!
So many great ideas! Now I just need to find a source of freezer paper in Australia!
You can stabilize fabric (T-shirt’s) by ironing the freezer paper to the inside of the shirt. Allows you to use markers without the pulling that normally happens when drawing on a T-shirt. Then it just peels right off!
Great ideas Nina!!
Great ideas. I wonder what the NZ version of Freezer Paper is?!?!
Great ideas, I will try them out while making my next cards.
Learned a lot of great tips today, thanks!
I’ve never used freezer paper, but you’ve shown me I need to get some!
Who thinks of these things. That is a great tip and love all the suggestions on how to use it.
Thanks.
Looks like I’m going to have to start using some freezer paper for creative crafty fun!
Fascinating as I have never used freezer paper before for anything. Maybe its not so common in the UK, but I have now ordered some. Great tutorial!
Dare I say … COOL ?!?!?
THANK YOU for sharing these fabulous freezer paper techniques, LOTS for me to try :)
Thanks for these fabulous tips Nina! At least now I know where to purchase freezer paper! The butcher frowns when I ask for some!!