TECHNIQUE: STAMPING OFF

STAMPING OFF (also called Second Generation Stamping) is a great stamping technique to use on your creations ... it can age and add texture to a project, it gives the look of several shades (or is that hues?) of one colour, and it can also give the illusion of movement, such as in the first card below, created by fellow demonstrator Rachel Bleich or the second one by Carol Fraley ...

       

HOW TO:

There are two ways to use this technique:

1) ink up your stamp, and stamp it onto your project over and over again without reinking between images. This will give you one strong image and several faded images, as you see with the horses.

2) If a colour of ink is too strong for your project, then ink up your stamp, stamp it once LIGHTLY onto a scrap piece of paper, then immediately stamp it again onto your project ... presto! You have a lighter version (again - is it hue or shade?) of the original colour. I use this technique a lot with Rich Razzleberry ink ... I find it's just a little too intense when I'm stamping flowers, for example.

Stamping Off is also a very FRUGAL technique ... you don't need to own a lot of different ink pads in your favourite colour ... this technique just makes it LOOK like you do!

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