Has anyone tried stenciling greeting cards? I recently bid on a lovely stencil on eBay and I'm wondering what kind of ink or paint would be best. I bought one of the little sponges on a handle at WalMart to sponge it onto the stencil. Does anyone have any experience with this? Suggestions?
I've tried with sponcers (like you bought--sponge on a handle), with cut up sponge pieces, and the 'dusters' you can find from Judikins. All worked OK -- the finer the holes in the sponge, the less 'lextured' your color will be.
I've used dye and pigment inks, and liked the effect of pigment ink best, but the choice is yours.
I would stay away from the permanent inks unless you don't mind permanently coloring your sponges.
I've also used some of the Jacquard paints for this, like Lumiere, Textile, Neopaque, etc.
....I love dry embossing..in fact, one of my fair entries is a dry embossed one. The only paper I use for this process is Lasting Impressions. Since u work w/the colored side down I rub waxed paper completely over the paper and man it sure helps work the stylus around. I watched at Michael's and got an Artograph-Light Tracer on sale...think they retail bout $35 and got mine for $19. Large light area and really great to work on...those little ones are just to light w/not a lot of work surface and they move around on table. ~~Lorene
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