Rubber stamping with soot techniques.

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Rubber Stamping with Soot

Rubber Stamping with Soot
Submitted by Martha Myers

Basic Soot technique: Hold cardstock glossy side down over candle (close to flame) and move it back and forth until you have built up soot on the glossy surface. Stamp your image (uninked) onto the soot and clean stamp immediately. Try not to touch the soot or you will leave fingerprints. Spray image with sealant. When dry, cut out the image.

Note: I cut my cardstock larger than the finished size I want so I have room to hold it without smudging the soot.

Materials needed: Glossy cardstock - Flame - Spray Sealant
(I used a candle but anything with a flame will work, and I used Krylon Crystal Clear)

"Juliana"
Stamp Artist - Martha Myers
Materials used:

Juliana Rubber Stamp - Chapel Road Artstamps

Textured papers Town Stationary

(note: I was able to create soot with this technique on this paper due to its thickness)

Glossy papers - Marco's Paper

Stamp image with black dye ink on white glossy cardstock. Tear edges. Sponge various dye inks over image and burn edges only of paper. Tear cream-colored textured paper to make underlying panel. Apply (DTP) various dye inks around edges of textured background panel. Hold over candle to create soot over the inks on that panel. Mount to flame-colored textured panel and then to black glossy cardstock. Adhere twisted fibers to left edge of card.

Materials Used:

Tropical Scene -Stamp Camp

Crackle stamp -Stamper's Anonymous

Glossy cardstock -Marco's Paper

Gold spray webbing

Create soot on white glossy cardstock. Stamp and seal Tropical Scene. Spray gold webbing and attach gold fiber to simulate lightning on the soot image. Stamp black background panel with Crackle stamp and emboss with Egyptian Gold embossing powder. Mount image to gold and black panels. Final black panel was edged with gold leafing pen.

"Tropical Storm"
Stamp Artist - Martha Myers

"Zia Collage"
Stamp Artist - Martha Myers
Materials used:

Fern Collage - Stamp Zia

Fiskar's patterned brayer/regular brayer

Adirondack Mountain Lake rainbow pad

Glossy papers - Marco's Paper

Sponge rainbow ink on white glossy panel. Hold over candle to create soot. Stamp image in soot and seal. Brayer ink on white glossy panel using patterned brayer. With regular brayer, cover larger white glossy panel with same ink and then cover with soot. Seal this panel. Edge both panels with aqua Beedz. Layer stamped image to white brayered panel then dark soot panel. Mount to black glossy patterned cardstock.

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