I just thought I would see if anyone out there has a new or favorite technique that they would like to share with the rest of us. I am in a stamping "rut" right now and would like to have some new ideas to work with.
~Donna~ SAHM Val Gal 17, Wendy Woo 14, Seany 10 6 years of Stamping Bliss
Well, these aren't "new" but they might inspire you.
Bleach: Fold up some paper towels on a plate to make a little pad Pour bleach on the towels, stamp onto dark paper and see what happens. Clean your stamps right away. OR Stamp and emboss an image on dark paper then use a qtip to paint bleach into the open areas. either leave the area blank or color them in.
Shiny paper stamp & emboss with clear EP. then color the background in with a brayer and buff off the embossed areas with a paper towel
When I'm in a rut I will grab an idea book and copy something I like. I may not have the same set (usually not) or even those same colors, but essentially the project is the "same". After I do that a couple of times, it seems to get my creative juices flowing.
Are you a member of any swap lists? I will sign up for a swap so I HAVE to come up with something! LOL Nothing like a deadline staring me in the face to get me going.
Or try stamping on something that you never have...dinner napkins? clothing? flower pots?
Sorry I can't think of any new techniques.
Cecelia
Donna,
I joined a round robin in a yahoo group (rubberstampworld) and each month there are 2 techniques to select from - to keep myself trying new ideas, I have been doing both. Recent favorites - 1) reverse collage (acetate through the Xyron or spray adhesive on one side) and collage the back side - start with a central image, use glitter, bits of stamped images you didn't use, pretty paper, anything. 2) white crayon - stamp your image, highlight desired area with a white crayon, then stipple, sponge or dtp, wipe color off the white resist - neat. 3) watercolor lifting (Mary Jo McGraw calls it Faux Fresco) and 4) eggshell technique
- clean eggshells, bleach overnight, dry, break up and glue to a piece of cardstock that has adhesive (double stick tape or Xyron), stick them down with a pencil eraser, then color them with Marvy Metallic markers or metallic reinkers (let colors run together, if you wish), emboss with UTEE and add to a card - I stamped an image in the still warm UTEE atop the eggshells - great texture and you'd never know they are eggshells. Bleach is a never ending favorite - try dtp cardstock, bleach stamp a background stamp, then dtp again with another color...wonderful paper!
When I'm stuck, I do tags - just the right size to experiment with and a good place for me to challenge myself by using colors and stamps that I never use.
I often look through my piles of stamping magazines and any web sites that I can find for new/old ideas. Amazing how time, new inks colors and some new stamps make the old ideas appealing again.
Janet
Ddborger wrote:
I don't know if this is a *new* technique, but I just discovered it. It's called Joseph's Coat. Brayer with a nice kaleidacolor pad on a piece of glossy paper. Then stamp/wheel (I used the jumbo bold blossoms wheel from Stampin Up and it turned out beautifully) with Versamark and emboss with clear ep. Then brayer over the whole thing with black ink. The ep resists the black and the embossed images just pop out in the rainbow of colors. It got me out of a rut a couple weeks ago. Hope it helps!
Sandi
Obviously, you clean your stamps after bleaching, but what about the paper you've stamped on? Do you "neutralize" the bleach somehow, or is it okay to leave the bleach bleaching away forever?
Just Wondering, Risible
Once the bleach has dried, it's inert for all practical purposes - you couldn't add water and reactivate the bleaching property, for instance.
I'm not sure I'd use bleach technique for anything intended to last a lifetime (scrapbooking, for instance) because the residue might react chemically, over time, with paper, etc. in unwanted ways. But most of my stamped art isn't intended to last a lifetime.
Bleach: I read somewhere on the internet that you should heat set the bleach - I always do that now and it really makes the area "pop" so that you can see where you are more easily. Try painting bleach with a brush inside parts of your images when they are stamped on dark papers. Heat setting after painting the bleach seems to keep the bleach from interacting so much with the new colors, especially markers, that you place over the bleached areas. Janet
Pat Kight wrote:
Why not try rubber stamping with chalk inks onto vellum or coloured parchment, colour in with watercolour pencils or you could emboss the image if you used pigment ink. Then use pergamano tools and an embossing pad to rub into some of the areas , ( this is done on the wrong side of the paper, so that when you turn over to the right side , the embossed areas stand out! Just a thought...you can also layer stamped vellum images using silicone adhesive...I have a nice poppies stamp that this works lovely with. I stamp in white onto pink vellum, repeat and cut out bits to layer up like decoupage. hopr this helps a bit! As for the brayer relief type of technique, this can be seen on the magenta rubber stamps techniques video. thanks..E
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