It is Claudia right here with you at the moment 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 in the case of stamping ink that reveals 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 challenge (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 have 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 entails a tiny little bit of paper mechanics (after all I’ll present you find out how to do it a bit later on this put up).
Right here – as soon as once more – the provides I wanted to create my playing cards. The stencil I used to create the quote shouldn’t be proven as that was a spontaneous thought. You will discover information on it later within the put up.
The Tsukineko VersaFine Clair ink pads are my go-to ink pads in the case of very tremendous element stamps or strategies like warmth embossing or colouring in stamped photos with water colors. They’re fast drying, gentle quick and fade resistant and completely waterproof (as they’re oil based mostly pigment inks). And they’re additionally excellent for the approach I need 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 at all times warmth dry the stamped photos to verify they’ve actually dried…the Tsukineko – VersaFine – Clair inks actually do dry fast, however I prefer to play it completely protected).
However what’s unsuitable with this picture? Why does it present mirrored and the way may that occur”?
In fact this was no accident! I wanted this specific 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 it’s best to strive 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 gentle gray one the place you’ll be able to see the inked picture you take from the stamp. The Tsukineko – VersaFine – Clair ink pads present a very deep and robust pigment (you’ll be able to see that by how “moist
with pigment” the inked stamps are) – so in addition they show you how to as you don’t want to rush through the course of.You completely ink the stamp (identical to you at all times do) – I’ve “mounted” mine to my non-stick craft sheet for that objective – and then you definately fastidiously roll the brayer throughout the inked stamp with out altering the path. Take note of not smudge any element. Relatively work with no strain than an excessive amount of – that helps avoiding sliding off with the brayer. Essentially the most tough components are the beginning and the top of this rolling course of as these are the moments if you slip and smudge most simply.
Then roll the reverse picture from the brayer onto the substrate the place you need the picture to seem in your challenge. I want to make use of a silicone mat for this because it helps with not dropping 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’ve got a second reverse picture of the nautilus.
This system 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 cling 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 approach that is available in particularly useful if you want symmetrical designs (like for instance two arms pointing in direction of some focal picture within the centre of your challenge from the left and the proper). In my case I simply wanted the nautilus to look to the opposite facet (and I can reside with the reverse textual content because it nonetheless provides beautiful texture to the background).