Today I want to build on earlier posts where I explained how to make these colorful backgrounds.
Someone asked me what I do with these backgrounds,
so I decided I would walk you towards that end product one step at a time.
Today we are going to talk about adding stamped images to your inked backgrounds.
There is really nothing to it. I promise!
I thought I had taken a photo of this inked background when I made it,
unfortunately I didn't check before I went crazy with the stamping, so this is about the closest thing you are going to see to a photo of the inked prettiness it was.
I completed the background on an 11" x 14" sheet of Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface - my go-to paper for inked backgrounds - and Dylusions Ink Sprays in Crushed Grape and Funky Fuchsia .
Then I gathered my supplies:
* a stamp that I like from Dylusions,
* if you are using a non-mounted stamp, you will also need a clear stamp block - mine came from Dylusions (of course), and
* an archival inkpad from Ranger.
(Yes, I am just noticing my skin looks terrible in this photo. I really don't have the plague, I promise!)
Ink your stamp and place it face down onto your inked background - wherever you want it to go. Press down, then lift straight up.
For this particular project I wanted to cover most of the paper surface with stamped images. I did not care if they lined up or not, so I focused on stacking them one above the other.
I repeated the process until I had most of the surface covered.
My first stamps were a little darker than I wanted them,
so I stamped the image twice before I re-inked the stamp.
This resulted in a mix of lighter and darker images, which I am really satisfied with.
So you see, there is really nothing to getting stamped images onto your inked backgrounds.
Piece of cake! I promise!
Now. On to my next step in the project. And I will try to take more pictures as I go along.
I promise :).
I wanted to title this post You Can't Go Wrong With a Little Tink, but figured that was definitely too long! "But," you say, "there is in fact a little Tink in this picture!" and you would be right, hence the proposed title of You Can't Go Wrong With a Little Tink. Hahahaha!
Actually, this is the first page of a new journal I have started. It is called a Grid Journal because you build it in grids ~ on top of grids. Mixed media artist Martha Lever is teaching a workshop called Lollapalooza 3: The Big Grid Journal at Creative Workshops. If you are interested in learning how to make one of these fun - and different - art journals, click on that link. It takes you straight to the ordering page :).
You should seriously check it out, but use the link because if you google it you have to first figure out how to spell lollapalooza and that isn't easy!
My friend Cindy has started a grid journal as well. Here's a link to her first pages - Cottage Remnant. And while you're there, you should leave a little love in her comment section so she will know someone's been there :).
What a cute little mousie! When I saw this stamp at Whimsy Stamps, I just had to get it! I prefer the digital stamps. I had not ever worked with an unmounted stamp before.
I began by organizing my copics, and one thing just led to another.
I'm not sure why I stamped this onto a zentangle tile, but that's what was close at hand, so that was what I used. The copics do bleed through the tile, but I'm fine with that. It didn't take me long to get this colored in - my second piece of copic art. And then - I guess because it was on a zentangle tile- I felt I needed to tangle something.
My poor little Mousie looked like he was sitting on air, so I tangled him up a boardwalk and some flowers. Lots of people use pencils they steal borrow from local businesses - Mousie's pencil is sporting The Creator's Leaf 's logo. That's one smart little Mousie!
Copics Used:
Pencil: YG1, YG23, YG25, W00, W3, W5, YR14, YR24, Y26, BV000.
Mousie: R81, R83, BG0000, BG11, E000, E00, E11,
E13, B000, B02, B04, E31, E33, YR23, YR04.
Plants: V15, RV13, RV34, YG01, YG05, YG07.
Boardwalk: E35, E37, E39.
