Pink and Purple ink, with stained glass
rainbow pad stippled
Plain white paper, yellow and brown ink
Cream paper, Yellow and Purple Inks
Items Needed:
White Copy Paper
Two Dye Based Ink Pads, various colors - one light, one dark
Spray bottle of water (you can also add a drop of fragrance oil
to your bottle for a light scent!)
Rub a light colored dye based inkpads
onto a piece of white, regular weight paper. Rub inkpad all over
until entire sheet is colored.
Crumble paper into a ball. Carefully open and place onto a flat
surface.
Next rub your second, darker color onto the crumbled paper. The
creases will be highlighted by this color.
Lightly spray with water to blend the
colors a little and then let dry!
If your 1st color is too light after
adding your 2nd color, you can stipple MORE color onto it!
Stamp Artist - Wendy Kerr
Contrasting Glitter Background
Technique
Contributed by Martha
Myers
If you like lots of sparkle, this background
is for you!
On sticker paper (or cardstock that
has been run through the Xyron), adhere a piece of lace that
is slightly larger than the paper to the sticky side. Smooth
down so there are no gaps or holes. Sprinkle glitter to cover
entire area. Tap off. Peel off the lace and sprinkle a contrasting
color of glitter to fill in the white areas.
In lieu of lace, you can use a plastic
doily or you can cut a "snowflake" out of the backing
from the sticker paper. Just about any type of "mask"
will work as long as it's made from a material that won't stick
permanently to the paper. Smooth it over the sticky surface and
you're ready to sprinkle.
"Purple Pizzazz"
Stamp Artist - Martha Myers all images from Stamp Zia
Create glitter background with Avocado
and Purple glitters.
Stamp Butterfly Fan and Berry Arch twice
on black cardstock. Emboss with Egyptian Gold EP. Color images
with Dove blender and Pearl Ex Pigments (Misty Lavender, Spring
Green and Sunset Gold). Cut out.
Iron Foliage Corners around edges of
green suede panel.
Adhere green suede panel to purple Diamond
Dust cardstock. Adhere glitter panel to black Paper Pearls panel.
Adhere to green suede panel. Mount images to center of glitter
panel with foam tape. Embellish with purple and gold metallic
embroidery floss.
Stamp Artist - Sandy Wisnewski
Shadow Backgrounds
Contributed by Sandy Wisnewski
To create a unique shadow background stamp first save your scraps
from trimming unmounteds or use scraps from "fun foam".
It is easiest to use a piece of HALOS to lay scraps on but these
could also be done on another type of mounting cuchion. Decide
on the area to cover and attach pieces to cushion. Use this piece
as
a shadow background stamp with your favorite colors.
Marvy Metallics Backgrounds
Contributed by Rebecca
Chinn
Stamp Artist - Rebecca Chinn
Awesome backgrounds is the name of this game! The metallic pens
made by Marvy Uchida make great backgrounds. Take a piece
of black glossy paper and scribble various colors of the metallic
pens. Then spritz some water on the paper, moving the water
around by tilting the paper, so that the colors blend with each
other. Let dry completely. Stamp and emboss the image.
Metallic colors, such as gold, copper, or silver look the best
against the background. Trim the cardstock, then layer
with other cardstock. I like using black cardstock to bring
out the colors.
Batik Backgrounds
Contributed By: Martha
Meyers
"Batik
Background" created using Dr. PH Martin's watercolors. For
more samples and instructions, see the Dr. Ph. Martin's techniques
page.
Embossed Shadow Backgrounds
Contributed by Julie Robinson
I found out by accident, that you can emboss w/ clear powder
on a versamark pad, and it is wonderful. I did a card w/ pine
trees.
I stamped them first with the versamark to have a little darker
than the green paper I was using. Second, I stamped in gold encore.
When I sprinkled the embossing powder on, I expected it to only
stick to the Encore, but it also stuck to the versamark.
When heated, it is a fabulous look!
Stamp Artist - Julie Robinson
Pearls & Paints Background - Make Your Own!
Contributed By: Diane
Miller
This
is a very easy background to make! Using a piece of black
card stock, I took clear embossing ink and dabbed it all over
my paper. Using a small make-up brush, I applied Powdered Pearls,
Jade, and Midnight Gold, simply swirling the colors around. The
clear embossing ink is what the Powdered Pearls will adhere to.
I used my stipple brush and lightly added Jacquard metallic paints
in gold and green. Adding the metallic paints will give your
background a nice texture. Change your colors of Powdered Pearls
and paints and you can create a background to match any project
you are working on.
Paste Paper Backgrounds
- Make Your Own!
Contributed By: Nancy
Handy
You
can make your own unique background with paste paper.
Paste paper is a textured paper that you can make at home.
I will try to tell you how to make it, but it is easier if you
do it in a class so you can see it for yourself. It is
a lot of fun.
You can make paste paper look like papyrus, basket weave, African
texture, etc. You are only limited by the limits of your own
imagination.
Click Here for instructions & 6 different background
examples.
Paper
Gilding Backgrounds
Contributed By: Kathy
LaRocco
Materials: Kraft
brown bag or paper (not heavy card stock), embossing ink, acrylic
brayer, several embossing powders (I used a selection of powders
by Judi-Kins including malachite, jasper and cloisonne') &
heat gun.
The paper is crushed up in your hand and you use the acrylic
brayer to apply the embossing ink. Next emboss and then affix
to your card stock with 2 way tape.
Materials: Marvy
metallic markers, black glossy card stock, spritzer bottle with
water, and bubble wrap.
Scribble markers at random across your card stock, sprtiz with
water until colors run. Place a piece of bubble wrap on the top
and allow to dry. Once dry, carefully remove bubble wrap. TOO
COOL.
Looks very primitive.
Tissue
Paper Background
Contributed By: Kathy
LaRocco
Materials:
art tissue paper (or a paper that will bleed when wet), glossy
white paper, a spritzer bottle with water, and blow pens. Tear
tissue in various shapes. Wet card stock with spritzer, lay torn
tissue on your card stock and allow to dry. Add sprinkles using
blow pen.
Cover your iron with a piece
of heavy-duty aluminum foil. I like to cover the entire iron
and tape it to make sure it stays on.
Have your card stock ready with several
layers of newspaper underneath.
Heat your iron to the hottest setting,
without steam!
With your iron, heat side up, carefully
melt crayons, starting with light colors first and then darker
colors.
I usually only melt my crayons in small dots all over the foil.
Once
you have the desired amount of melted wax on the bottom of the
irons surface, place iron down onto your card stock, moving your
iron in a sweeping motion. Repeat these steps until you are satisfied
with your design.
"wet
paper" technique.
Contributed By: Joanne
Lee - bjlee@maine.rr.com
In
the seven years I have been stamping, I have learned a lot about
shading. One technique I often use is a "wet paper"
technique. I start by stamping a permanent black ink image on
white card stock
(I like Stampa Rosa Micey Nice Paper, but any card stock will
work). While the image is drying, take the brush art markers
and squiggle on a non-porous surface (plastic container) to create
a color palette. Using a small round paintbrush, apply a small
amount of water to the paper in the area you plan to color. With
the wet brush pick up color from the marker palette. With the
brush pointed away from you push the brush around the outer edge
of the image. This will shade the edges darker and create beautiful
shading. The water in the
brush dilutes the color toward the middle of
Stamp Artist - Joanne Lee
the brush and
creates a natural looking, shaded image. Using the markers I
already have gives me the opportunity to use a variety of colors,
without having to buy more paint or watercolors! Here are some
samples of this technique. This is an image from A Monthly Rubber
Stamps Club Vendor, Time To Stamp! (Kristy,
the owner, is wonderful!)
Stamp Artist - Karen
Wax
Paper Backgrounds
Contributed By: Karen
- Krayon906@cs.com
The technique I just learned for quick and colorful backgrounds
blows be away. You need glossy paper (any size), wax paper (just
bigger than the paper), and an iron. Crumble up the wax paper
and then set between the glossy sides of the glossy paper. Take
an iron at medium heat and iron over the paper for between 10
and 30 seconds. When you're done, take one of the glossy sheets
and cover with ink. I used a brayer on a rainbow pad. You can
also use a sponge or the ink pad itself, or any other way you
can think to put the ink on the paper. The ink brings out some
wonderful designs. The different ways that you fold the wax paper
bring out
wonderful designs. You don't always have to crumble the paper
either. Just play with the wax paper and see what beautiful images
arise.
Word Backgrounds
Contributed By: Sandy
Wisneski
An easy way to create a one of a kind background is by using
your computer and word processing program. St the page size to
the desired background size of your card. Select a font style
and size. Create a collage of words about flowers, birthdays,
or repeat a favorite saying. Tear the edges of the background
and rub on a metallic pad to soft the effect.
Stamp Artist - Sandy Wisneski
Backgrounds - Bubble Paper
From: Sharon S.
About a year ago, lots of people were talking about making bubble
paper, with kids bubble stuff. It makes wonderful background
paper, but you have to find the right images to go with it. A
few days ago I was stamping away, and Jennifer, my 12 yr old
daughter, suggested I stamp right on the bubble paper. It makes
such a pretty background behind the images. Some images don't
need to be colored in, always a plus!!
I stamped some images that have lots
of small detail, no coloring. This morning, I stamped butterflies
on it, but did color them in. The splashes of color in the background
behind the butterflies is so pretty.
Here is how you can make your own -
1/3 cp dish soap or baby shampoo
1 1/4 cp water
2 tsp sugar
food coloring
In mixing this I used hot water, and
added the sugar to the water first, shaking to dissolve. Then
I put in dish soap, Dawn in my case. The blue dish soap didn't
affect the color of the Easter egg dye at all. I divided the
solution into 3 portions, and added a tablet of Easter egg dye
to each glass. It worked beautifully.
Mix bubble stuff and Easter egg dye (food coloring works too,
I've heard). I put a tablet in the bubble stuff yesterday, and
mixed it with the wire thing to dip the eggs with, then blew
bubbles with the same wire
thing. The bubbles were so big. I'll have to do that again.
Spread out white paper all over your
table, picnic table, garage floor. Maybe cover the surface with
newspapers first, then with the white. I put the paper as close
together as it can be without overlapping. Than blow bubbles.
I use every color I have dye in, and blow some of each color
on each sheet of paper. I did try this time, blowing only blue
bubbles on some. Blue is my favorite, and I wanted to see what
I could do with it.
I went out shopping for bubble stuff
yesterday, but couldn't find any cheap enough, so I made my own.
I had never made bubble stuff with sugar in it, but it turned
out good. Next time Jared wants bubbles, I'll make my own with
the same recipe :^) Also, I used Dawn (blue) in the bubble stuff.
The blue color didn't affect the color of the dye at all, fortunately.
Maybe my blue bubbles were a little bit bluer. Background - Pastel Chalks From: Sarah H.
Take your tinted embossing pad, stamp your image using the tinted
embossing pad onto white or cream colored card stock. Let dry
for at least 30 minutes. Take a cotton ball and rub on the chalk
color of your choice. Rub the cotton on a slant across the card,
use at least 3 different colors. You'll get a great background.
Backgrounds - Plastic Wrap From: HorsKrzy0@aol.com
One background that I have done and
loved is to use plastic wrap and dab Molten Metals on the card
stock in a random way. I really liked the effect by using the
green and the gold. Molten Metals is by Poly-Art Products. It's
a liquid and dries looking like metal flake. Neat stuff.
Background Papers - Marvy Metallic on Glossy Paper From: Diane@rubberstampsclub.com
Start with a piece of black
or color glossy card stock. Scribble Marvy Metallic pens over
the card stock. You do not have to be neat or cover the entire
surface, it actually looks nice with some of the original background
of the color glossy card stock showing through.
Before the ink dries, have a spray bottle
with water and light spritz the surface. Start with a little
and then tilt the paper and watch the colors run together. Then
- for a really dramatic affect, add small amounts at a time of
schmenke powders and WOW ... you will get a REAL metallic affect!
Keep adding water and or schmenke powder until you achieve your
desired. Marvy Metallic and Backgrounds
Use a baby wipe instead of spritzing
the card. Wipe over the card (colored gloss) with a baby wipe
and then dab the Marvy Metallic onto the baby wipe and then dab
onto the card. It doesn't matter if the colors get all mixed
up. One baby wipe per card background. It is not quite as messing
as spritzing the card. Rock Salt Background From: Linda Isarael
- Linda_Israel@classic.msn.com
Rock Salt Background It looks like star bursts on the paper.
You water color your paper and while it is wet you pour the rock
salt on and let it dry. The Salt will make the paint draw up,
and leave a spot where
the paint didn't dry. There was also a tip to reuse the salt
and it will put color back on the paper. From: Shannon Green
sgreen@wf.net
I was at Office Max the other day and picked up a roll of....darn,
I wish I'd kept the wrapper. It's a rubbery feeling, lightweight
mat that comes in a roll and is used in offices around computers
to prevent static build-up. You just cut what you want from the
roll and put it under your computer, on top of filing cabinets,
etc. Anti-Static Mat, or something like that. It comes in several
colors and a couple of different sizes but I got the small roll
of white for around $3-$4. I made some backgrounds today by cutting
a
piece of the mat and inking it with gold pigment ink, laying
a piece of black card stock on top of it and brayering over the
back of the card stock lightly. It made a really neat looking
pattern. I embossed it with clear because that's just what I
do. Then I dumped clear powder on the inked up mat and embossed
it. Worked great for another background, layering or collage.
The stuff *will* melt if you over heat it, but it'll hold up
long enough to emboss. Dye inks didn't work well at all...they
beaded up. I haven't let it sit very long, but I have a feeling
if you want to use a piece of the mat that has ink on it From: Cheryl Hester
stamphersoon@webtv.net
To make backgrounds I have used twisted
rubber bands of different sizes on a wood or acrylic block. You
can also scrunch up tin foil, plastic wrap, baby wipes, paper,
or anything that will hold a crease and use as a stamp. I took
a class from a company rep that even used tampons to stamp with.
Use one color, need another - no problem, push it up and cut
off the used part and re-ink in the next color. Of course there
is always paste paper, encaustic paper (I use melted crayons
and smear them around on finger painting paper with an iron,
and other methods like feather painting (dabbing a feather in
liquid ink and just touching the surface of the paper). I saw
polymer brayers at Wal-Mart in the paint section and bought one.
It has a random pattern on it that resembles stucco.
From: Penelope pennie2@juno.com
Rubber Cement Background Technique Get
your card stock any color or style used white glossy (great results)
Ink up your brayer with rainbow (any color) dye pad and brayer
away on the card. Then add rubber cement in any pattern you want
Then put black dye ink on your brayer and brayer again let
cement dry first Then let dry a long time I let it sit overnight
to be sure and then peel off rubber cement from card stock and
Viola! There you go a beautiful piece of art that baffles people!
Dee Gruening made up this technique as far as I know.
Send your rubber stamping
tips & techniques that you'd like to share to
Be
sure to visit our rubber stamping & scrapbooking Sister Sites
at Scramping
Central
Mounted
& unmounted rubber stamps & rubber stamping supplies
ALWAYS ON SALE.
Many of your favorite rubber stamp companies ALL conveniently
located at one Website!
A Monthly Rubber
Stamps Club featuring rubber stamps & rubber stamping supplies
from over 50 of your favorite rubber stamp companies ALL conveniently
located at one Website!
