How to Stamp Other Surfaces

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Stephanie and I’m going to talk about stamping other surfaces. One kind of ink that you can use that will stamp on any surface is Stazon, so you can use Stazon and I suppose you can stamp on transparency paper, buttons, you know large metal embellishments, things like that. You can just; you can also stamp on other images and just add visual interest. Here’s some chipboard that I, that I can use to show you one example. This is just a regular clipboard pad, tab, just to get it to change color you just rub it on the pad and you’ll probably get some ink on your fingers but it’ll look neat and it gives it a different texture. It can look aged, you can put as much color or as little as you want, you can also ink around the edges. See how that makes it pop up? It just gives it a really neat kind of look and then it’s also the color that I want to match my page. You know sometimes you might have a preprinted thing that you like but it's kind of plain so you can just take a regular stamp, rub it on there. This one is dots and just put it on and now its got the purple thing and you can put as many things as you want on it just to make it look different. And then once again, you can just ink the edges, it just gives it a different look, anything, you can ink just about anything really. Here’s an example of a page where you know I did that on the letters it just made those letters pop out of the page more than it would if those were just plain, adds a lot of interest. There’s a lot of stamping on this page, I used you know a background stamp, you know and like I said you can stamp on top of patterned paper. It doesn’t matter it’s still going to show up and you know just try whatever you want, you know you can experiment also with for example inking another surface. This flower, you can see something like this and it will pick up some of the colors and give it a really cool look it just gives it that neat distressed look and it’s going to match everything I’ve done on the page because I’m using you know the same sort of purple and see it just gives it a little bit different look all the way around. So just try whatever you want and use your inks and whatever surfaces that you feel are applicable. "