Watercolor Effect with Direct to Stamp Inking

I received some emails and comments about how I did the image on one of the cards I made for this past weekends OWH~StampersBest BlogSkip and I said I would show how I did this.. but wanted to have all three of the images so I could show the progress from beginning to end.. however I couldn't find that middle image.. and after searching high and low.. I finally found it in a basket of scraps.

The image I used I actually got by accident.. really, by accident.

I had recently received a set of Distress Markers and was getting ready to go to bed one night and thought I'd mess around with them first. I grabbed the stamp I had been working with earlier in the night to stamp some other images that I colored in.. and thought I'd directly apply the ink to the stamp and see how it turned out.

The first stamping was really what I thought it would be.. liked it.. then I thought I'd spritz it with water.. course, all my mini misters are packed up somewhere so I grabbed an empty spray bottle and filled it with water.. spritzed it and stamped.. yikes.. too much.. then I stamped it again and left it and went on to bed.

The next morning when I got up and seen the sheet of watercolor paper laying on the washer where I had left it last night and was like "wow!".. I really like the way that turned out.

These were my images from that night:

Tonight as I started to put this together.. I couldn't remember if I had spritzed the stamp a second time or just stamped it after the second stamping.. so I did it all over from beginning to end.. and not only with Distress Markers but I also used some Stampin' UP! markers as well. You could do this with any waterbased markers. I have some Tombow markers but didn't have a dark navy blue so I passed on using them.

*NOTE: I only inked the stamp once. I then stamped it then I spritzed it with water then stamped and then stamped it again for the third time.

DISTRESS MARKERS:

STAMPIN' UP! MARKERS:

The more the papers dry.. the softer the image looks. I stamped all these images on some 90lb watercolor paper.

Give it a try.. I would love to see what you create.. add your blog here so I can check it out as well as others.



Happy Stamping!!!



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