Tuesday, August 21, 2007

stampin' on flowers!

over the weekend i had occasion to visit lesley langdon's blog, challenge me lesley THREE TIMES (once for each of the *fab* CAARDVARKS' micro challenge cards she made!) and i could not help but notice and marvel at the way she had stamped on a prima paper flower! i confess, such an idea had never occurred to me...but of course as soon as i saw it i was kicking myself: *WHY* hadn't it occurred to me??! that is brilliant! a feverish flurry of flowery stamping ensued. here are some of the fruits of that experimentation:

my conclusions: dye-based ink works better than pigment; the flatter the flower, the better the image transfers; paper flowers take ink slightly better than fabric ones...which can become very slightly blurry; 7 gypsies pre-inked stamps work just fine & are easily positioned; the more contrast between ink color and flower color the better it shows up; a medium sized stamp transfers better than a really big all-over image b/c of the uneven surface. on a personal note: i think i like the allover patterns the best, especially the crackle effect, the wood grain and the leopard spots!

one last tiny (and ultra-specific) tip: see this "inkblots" stamp by DOTS? it's cute, right?


...until you stamp it in RED, and then you've got...
...uh-huh...

blood splatter!!! (lol!)
...hmmm...i think we'd better save that one for halloween!


UPDATE: lesley has actually written a fantastic tutorial on altering flowers via stamping (& other cool ways) that you DEFINITELY want to read! you can find it here.

7 comments:

  1. Awesome! Love all your examples!

    I was trying to mimick Prima's new flowers that came in the bikini underwear package, with the small script on it. I did a mini class on ScrapLovers web site too. You can see here for more example - they look awesome with a collage stamp!

    Here is the thread:
    http://www.scraplovers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13015

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  2. Love the little flowers stamped, but the blood spatter is SOOOOO pretty! I am going to have to try this out...I rarely dig out those background stamps. It is time to use them again:) Thanks Lesley and Lauren!

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  3. Oh wow so fabulous! I really love your style!! YOU ROCK!!!
    Too cool spatter stamp! I can think of many uses for that one, having 2 pre-school aged kids and 2 dogs!!! LOL!!
    You, Laura and I MUST do lunch!!!
    Email me!
    ChkMateKng2@aol.com!!
    ~Gabi

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  4. ooooooooooo now thats fun! love the blood splater LOL.. and the turquoisey and moire ones :-)

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  5. LOL at the blood splatter flower!!

    The rest look great :)

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  6. What catches the eye is the Blood Splatter! I would go for THAT Flower!

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  7. Maybe in person that looks like blood, but it just looks plain fantastic to me!!

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