Stamping With Watercolour

 

Yes, you can stamp with watercolour.  Just make sure the stamps suit the medium - natural, mostly solid stamps work the best, like leaves, ferns, etc.  Give it a try!





Voyages

This started out as a set of three Artist Trading Cards, but my sister Dianne liked the third one and "traded" for it.  They are simple collages created with stamps.  Finally a strip of scrapbook paper and a Dymo label were added.

Greetings from Montreal

Well, not really, but I've been there and back and that is the reason for my long break from blogging.  I was visiting my sister Dianne, and we spent two weeks stamping and shopping.  What fun!

While I was there, I prepared for my demonstration day at my Stamp Club here in Vancouver.  My sister found a cool Tim Holtz technique in a 2003 Rubber Stamper magazine and together we created this sample:

This is a resist technique using manilla file folders.  You simply stamp in Versamark, heat emboss using clear powder, and paint using dye re-inkers and a water pen, allowing the colours to pool together.  Then you iron off the embossing leaving a faux bleach look.  (The file folders have a special coating on them that makes the ink pool together.)

Octagons

One of the October themes for the Vancouver Artist Trading Card Group is Octagons.  Using a hand carved octagon stamp for a background, I created some stamped ATC's for fall:

Tissue Paper - Faux Washi

Does anybody else have a large box/bag of white tissue paper from gifts or clothing purchases that they can't bear to throw away?  I see a few hands have gone up among you crafters.

I've been looking for something to do with this stuff for years, and suddenly my friends (real live and Internet) have been answering the call.

First, Heather at the stamp club showed us how to make fake washi paper:

This is made by dropping random drops of dye re-inker on wet tissue paper (spray with water) and moving the colour around with a soft paintbrush.  A second sheet of tissue can be laid down to absorb some of the moisture and colour.   After drying, you bond the tissue to freezer paper and decorate with stamps.  (The freezer paper gives it a nice stable weight for further craft handling.)

I tried a similar thing with watercolour sprays and it also worked well.  Thanks, Heather!

I'll post another tissue paper technique soon!