Servus, expensive inventive pals!
It is Claudia right here with you at present to share a simple to do birthday card with a hidden shock!
My thought was to make use of these alongside with some heavy water colouring – so the selection with regards to stamping ink that exhibits each tiny element of the stamped picture AND withstands a great deal of water being added by a brush was a simple one – a Tsukineko VersaFine Clair (Nocturne) ink pad!
However first issues first – the completed mission (and the PaperArtsy merchandise I used):
The 2 birthday playing cards look so simple as they’re within the making – I promise! And all I wanted had been the 2 stamp units, 4 PaperArtsy Fresco End paints and one PaperArtsy stencil.
However this image doesn’t reveal the hidden shock…a touch: its making includes a tiny little bit of paper mechanics (after all I’ll present you the way to do it a bit later on this submit).
Right here – as soon as once more – the provides I wanted to create my playing cards. The stencil I used to create the quote just isn’t proven as that was a spontaneous thought. You may discover data on it later within the submit.
The Tsukineko VersaFine Clair ink pads are my go-to ink pads with regards to very superb element stamps or methods like warmth embossing or colouring in stamped photos with water colors. They’re fast drying, mild quick and fade resistant and completely waterproof (as they’re oil primarily based pigment inks). And they’re additionally good for the method I wish to present you in a sec! 😉
You may see how the picture particulars are nonetheless crisp although I’ve actually given this stamped picture a heavy dose of water colouring. No smearing in any respect (although I all the time warmth dry the stamped photos to verify they’ve actually dried…the Tsukineko – VersaFine – Clair inks actually do dry fast, however I wish to play it completely secure).
However what’s incorrect with this picture? Why does it present mirrored and the way might that occur”?
In fact this was no accident! I wanted this explicit picture to be mirrored, as a result of I wished my “hidden shock” to swim to the left and wanted the area to its proper to cover it (the highest banner image already confirmed the little trio of fish that may be pulled out of the nautilus). Mirroring stamps is kind of simple to do, nevertheless it takes a little bit of apply (so if you don’t want to mess up on the heavyweight PaperArtsy card you must attempt it a number of instances on low cost easy heavyweight printer paper).
What you want for this “trick” is a brayer – most ideally an orange or mild gray one the place you may see the inked picture you take from the stamp. The Tsukineko – VersaFine – Clair ink pads present a very deep and robust pigment (you may see that by how “moist
with pigment” the inked stamps are) – so in addition they make it easier to as you do not want to rush through the course of.You completely ink the stamp (identical to you all the time do) – I’ve “mounted” mine to my non-stick craft sheet for that goal – and you then rigorously roll the brayer throughout the inked stamp with out altering the route. Take note of not smudge any element. Reasonably work with no strain than an excessive amount of – that helps avoiding sliding off with the brayer. Essentially the most tough elements are the beginning and the tip of this rolling course of as these are the moments once you slip and smudge most simply.
Then roll the reverse picture from the brayer onto the substrate the place you need the picture to look in your mission. I choose to make use of a silicone mat for this because it helps with not shedding any element whereas rolling the brayer throughout the paper or card.
For the “hidden shock” repeat this course of on a scrap of left over easy card so you might have a second reverse picture of the nautilus.
This method positively wants a little bit of apply. Not smudging the picture when taking it onto your brayer is the toughest half, however you’ll shortly get the grasp of it! In fact this method solely works with “slender” designs, because the brayer’s circumference defines the scale restrict of the picture’s width.
It is a method that is available in particularly helpful once you want symmetrical designs (like for instance two arms pointing in the direction of some focal picture within the centre of your mission from the left and the fitting). In my case I simply wanted the nautilus to look to the opposite aspect (and I can dwell with the reverse textual content because it nonetheless provides beautiful texture to the background).