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a look at . . . print fusion: combining 1 stamp-carving supplies 4 , foam-plate printing, and hand-carved make your own stamps stamps for one-of-a-kind 2 with dies and foam DANEE KAPLAN CECILIA SWATTON the workshop: 3 roll out the backgrounds LINDA CALVERLEY for adding details and stamping with precision. “Mounting the die-cut shapes on acrylic blocks or clear makes it How to Make a Stamp easy to line up the stamp right where you want,” she advises. 4 Free Articles on Carving Art Stamps and In “The Workshop: Roll Out the Backgrounds,” Linda Calverley shows Stamping Techniques how to make your own rolling stamps for presented by ® paper and fabric. Using mostly recycled Cloth Paper Scissors cylindrical objects, glue, and cutting tools, ONLINE EDITOR Cherie Haas she explains how to carve rolling stamps CREATIVE SERVICES t’s nice to be able to go to an art from corks and foam insulation. Linda DIVISION ART DIRECTOR Larissa Davis supply store and buy rubber stamps also gives stamping ideas for rollers and for your mixed-media art projects, but PHOTOGRAPHERS Larry Stein patterns and offers tips on how to stamp Korday Studio youi also like to make things yourself, right? with these objects. Projects and information are for inspiration and Try making your own art stamps! In this free “Having a fling with several art-making ­personal use only. F+W Media is not ­responsible for eBook from Cloth Paper Scissors, a Guide to any liability arising from errors, ­omissions, or mistakes processes, I’ve created an array of Art Stamps: Fun Ideas and Easy Stamping contained in this eBook, and readers should proceed elements for Garden (featured Techniques, talented artists show readers cautiously, especially with respect to technical informa- here) and other art pieces,” says Cecilia tion. how to make art stamps, foam stamps, Swatton. “My dabbling included three F+W Media grants permission to photocopy any pat- and roller stamps; share stamp-carving simplified versions of printmaking: terns published in this issue for personal use only. techniques; and present ideas for using foam-plate printing, collagraphy, and your stamps. Use these techniques to make stamping with original-design, hand- backgrounds, design your own printed fabric carved rubber stamps. The resulting or , or create a unique piece of art. prints have a primitive, hand-drawn look Almost any design can be turned into an art that can make your collage as unique as Where mixed -media stamp, including your signature or favorite a signature.” Learn Swatton’s stamping flourish, but you need the right tools to make techniques in “Print Fusion,” as she artists come to play stamps. Learn the tools of the trade in “A walks you through the steps to make Look At . . . Stamp Carving Supplies.” There your own stamps. are some basic items you’ll want on hand: In this free Guide to Art Stamps: Fun carving blocks, a bench hook, carving tools, Ideas and Easy Stamping Techniques, inks and , brayers, and barens. In this you’ll get a wealth of ideas for stamping beginner’s guide, you’ll also learn a few tips and making signature works that are for making clean stamp impressions. uniquely yours. Inspired? Click here to let Next, you’re ready to “Make Your Own your Twitter followers know that you’re Stamps with Dies and Foam” with Danee going to “make an impression” with Kaplan. While experimenting with foam door your own stamps! hangers, she came up with this stamping Best regards, technique: “I die cut some butterflies and decided to see if I could alter the surface of the foam to add some dimension to the stamp,” Danee says. “What I came up with gives the look of a hand-carved stamp but Cherie Haas is much easier, faster, and doesn’t require Online Editor, any specially purchased carving tools.” Cloth Paper Scissors Today In addition to teaching you the steps to clothpaperscissors.com make your own stamps, Danee shares ideas

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tore shelves are full of stamps to purchase—but why not carve your own? sAdd a stamp to a piece of art whenever you need it. Make a custom 2 stamp that suits your project perfectly—or even carve your signature. Just about anything that you can doodle, draw, write, or even photograph can be made in to a stamp, as long as you have the right tools and know how to use them.

carving tools

speedball linoleum tools cutter Having the right carving tools is bench hook essential to success in carving. You can buy tools with a specific tip or a speedball bench hook/ink plate tool that comes with several tips, like Once your carving block is chosen, a bench hook/ the one pictured here (2). This type ink plate (1) is a great tool to have. Featuring a lip has an adjustable metal chuck for easy designed to hang over a desk or table edge, this metal installation of the tips and a handle with plate helps to keep hands and fingers safe. In addition, a twist-off cap for convenient storage of it can be used as an inking plate once you’re ready to the tips. stamp.

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carving blocks

speedball®: speedy-carve™, speedy-cut, speedy-cut easy To begin, you’ll need to decide on your carving block (3). The rubber blocks are a great choice for beginners and come in a variety of sizes and qualities. The pink and blue blocks pictured here are made of an eraser- like material that is easy to carve. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, author of Carve Stamp Play, recommends Speedy Carve as her favorite. This type of block also readily accepts image transfers to make carving even easier. You could also try an eraser or a piece of foam to carve a quick stamp.

inks and paints

speedball block printing inks, fabric & paper block printing inks 4 There are also choices as to how you’ll print your carved image. An ink pad is an obvious choice, and there are many to choose from. Another choice is printing inks (4), which provide bold, opaque color; great transfer tack; and easy cleanup. Some people choose to use with their stamps, depending on the project.

Guide to Art Stamps: Fun Ideas & Easy Stamping Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©F+W Media 4 brayers and barens brayer, red baron™ baren A brayer (5) is a good tool for applying the ink or paint to your stamp. When printing a large stamp, inking the stamp face-up and then laying the paper on the stamp and burnishing the paper with a baren (6) makes for a clean impression.

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instruction 7 Carve Stamp Play & Stamp-Making Adventures Workshop™ DVD

julie fei-fan balzer, interweavestore.com Good instruction is essential when learning a new skill, especially when special tools are involved. If you are totally new to stamp carving, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s Stamp-Making Adventures Workshop video (7) is a great place to start. Julie shares easy-to-follow instructions, tons of ideas for creating stamps, along with plenty of tips and tricks to have you carving stamps in no time. Julie’s book Carve Stamp Play (8) is also an excellent resource and covers everything you need to know about making and using 8 stamps.

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make your own stamps with dies and foam

by Danee Kaplan

Guide to Art Stamps: Fun Ideas & Easy Stamping Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©F+W Media 6 discovered this method serendipitously while working through Tim Holtz’s m at e r i a l s iA Compendium of Curiosity, Vol 2. In a technique Tim calls simply “Custom • foam door hangers Foam Stamps,” die-cut craft foam is used to make a rubber stamp. The resulting • Steel Rule Dies, capable of cutting ® stamp is a basic, one-dimensional shape. thicker materials (I used Sizzix Bigz dies and Movers and Shapers.) As I set out to explore this technique, the only craft foam I had on hand was • Die Cutting machine (I used a Sizzix Vagabond machine.) a package of door hangers, which happen to be significantly thicker than the • Carving tools: wooden skewer, standard craft foam sheets. I die cut some butterflies and decided to see if I toothpick, dry ballpoint pen, could alter the surface of the foam to add some dimension to the stamp. What I paintbrush, etc. (I like to use a Tim Holtz® Craft Pick.) came up with gives the look of a hand-carved stamp but is much easier, faster, • Recycled plastic packaging or and doesn’t require any specially purchased carving tools. acrylic blocks • Adhesive, Aleene’s® Tack-It Over & Over glue or double-sided directions adhesive sheets optional note: I used a die-cut machine, but you could also cut the foam with sharp, heavy- • Hot glue duty scissors, working slowly and carefully.

1. Begin by choosing your die-cut shapes. Obviously, not all die-cut shapes will work for this technique. detail tips As you select the shapes, think about • Birds, butterflies, and animals all how the shape would be improved look better with added details such by adding lines to define areas, to as facial features, defined body make it look more natural, or to add parts, wings, etc. interest. • Hearts can be sweet with words 2. The size of the die will determine written on them (remember to how it is positioned on the foam. Play write everything backwards) or around with positioning the foam be whimsical with added design on the die in order to cut the shape details. correctly. • Houses and cars are enhanced

3. Run the die and foam through the with windows and doors, defined die-cutting machine. Because the rooflines, and shutters. foam is thick, it needs a little help to • Flowers and leaves are fun and get started. I found it easiest to use super easy to jazz up by adding the extended cutting pads and start veins and texture. with the die itself 1"–2" from the edge of the cutting pads so that the cutting pads slid into the machine before the bulk of the sandwich. The foam door hangers cut beautifully.

Guide to Art Stamps: Fun Ideas & Easy Stamping Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©F+W Media 7 4. Add lines, circles, dots, hash marks, etc., to the die-cut shapes with the carving tools to enhance the image. Use different tools for different effects. Play around and have fun. If you don’t like how it looks, flip the foam over and carve the other side. (Figure 1)

5. To make repositionable stamps for use with acrylic blocks, paint a thin coat of the Tack It Over & Over on the back of each stamp and allow it to dry for several hours before adhering the stamp.

6. If you want to permanently mount the stamps, I recommend removing the film from one side of an adhesive sheet and applying the sheet to the back of the foam before you die-cut it. Run the foam/adhesive through the cutting machine, remove the second protective film, and mount Faux hand-carved the foam to either a piece of recycled Simple die-cut stamp version of the simple plastic packaging (Figure 2) or to die-cut stamp cardboard cut to the appropriate size. This technique is a great way to get extra You could also use hot glue to adhere use out of your die-cutting system, the foam to the plastic. expand your stamp collection, and it’s an tip: The stamps clean up well with inexpensive way to get stamps that are baby wipes. personalized by you.

quick tips • Cut multiple copies with the same die and then cut the foam apart to allow you to ink up the various components with different colored inks. • Mounting the die-cut shapes on acrylic blocks or clear plastic makes it easy to line up the stamp right where you want it. Figure 1

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backgrounds by Linda Calverley MAKE YOUR OWN ROLLING STAMPS FOR PAPER AND FABRIC

i have been making flat stamps for some time, but the rolling ones are fairly m at e r i a l s i new to me. It started when I bought a cheap set of tiny rolling stamps for • Recycled items to use as rollers: children. I thought I might be able to alter them by fixing my own designs on anything cylindrical (such as hard cardboard paper towel tubes or a them, but I admit I failed. However, it did get my creative juices “rolling,” and plastic soda bottle) or wheel shaped I came up with ideas using recycled items, bits and pieces from my treasure (round with a flat edge) drawers (junk), and fun foam. Be prepared to get your fingers dirty...and be • Found objects to use as pattern makers, such as heavy lace, string, warned: it can become addictive. or open-weave fabric • Fun foam (funky foam), available in marking it. When measuring the sheets directions width, be sure to leave a space at each • Scissors—large and small (For small end of the roller for your fingers. fiddly bits, curvy nail scissors work fun foam Measure the circumference and cut. well.) ® 1. Measure the amount of foam you will Double check to be sure the foam fits • All-purpose adhesive such as UHU need by wrapping it around the roller before doing anything else, (It must be a strong glue, or the shapes will come off when washed.) your selected roller and and make adjustments as necessary. • Craft knife • Pinking shears/decorative edge craft scissors • Revolving punch pliers for different size holes • Roller paint—acrylic, poster, ink pads, etc. • Background paints—acrylic wash, watercolor, Brusho (pigment powder), solution, fabric paints, etc. • Paintbrushes and/or paint rollers • Paper and/or fabric to print on • Tape or pins • Plastic to protect work surface

Guide to Art Stamps: Fun Ideas & Easy Stamping Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©F+W Media 9 note: Fun foam is very easy to cut. Strips to place them on the painted area. It of fun foam can be cut with pinking shears, is quite messy and sometimes finger a craft knife, or fancy craft ­scissors, and marks are left in the painted area, ideas for holes can be made with punch pliers. but these look like part of the pattern rollers & patterns when a topcoat of color is applied. If 2. Draw your design directly onto the rollers: plastic bottles; denture the roller is hollow in the center, you tablet tubes; wine corks (rubbery foam, or draw it on paper first and can guide it by inserting your fingers ones); thick, strong cardboard from then copy it onto the foam. For a there. rolls of tape; cylindrical polystyrene; “repeating” pattern the design will containers from gravy granules need to match at the same place, top 7. After rolling is completed, and the and salt; empty thread spools; toy and bottom, where the ends meet. To paint or ink has dried, a colored rolling pins; sponge craft rollers with do this, fold over the 2 ends or hold wash can be applied over the top. handles; spongy tube pipe insulation; wooden dowels; tins; empty aerosol the foam in place around the roller, Alternatively you could start with a cans matching the edges together, and colorwash before you do any rolling mark the foam where the pattern on of color. patterns: lace and trim (the thicker type works best), zippers, curtain needs to join. Place a join in the 8. For an all-over pattern, roll from end heading tape, netting found on the most suitable place. Some patterns to end with the “stripes” of pattern back of small ceramic tiles, patterned don’t need to repeat, they look fine as side by side until the sheet (fabric or textured fabric such as dish cloths, blocks of pattern. , sinamay mesh or other paper) is filled. open-weave fabric, jute, cord, string, 3. Glue the foam to the roller, matching 9. Most rollers can be rinsed under purchased foam shapes, , where required. Allow to dry. the tap after use. If it is a cardboard doilies ( rather than paper) 4. Cover your flat printing surface with roller, just wipe it with a damp cloth. plastic, then tape your fabric or paper 1. Look at the lace (or other patterned to it. textile patterns material) to determine how big the 5. Using a brush, apply color to the You can use lace, trims, textured fabrics, repeat is and find a roller that it patterned area on the roller or just cord, knitting samples, etc., or even will fit. (If not 1 repeat, try 2, 3, or 4 to selected parts. (If your design is embossed wallpaper. repeats.) large, a paint roller will give you more even coverage for applying paint.)

6. Start rolling at one end of your fabric or paper and work toward the other end. Some of the rollers can be used like a rolling pin. Most need to be guided with your fingers, quite firmly: with each hand, use your index finger above, middle finger to the side, and your thumb guiding from the back. If there is no space on the edge for your fingers, you may have

Guide to Art Stamps: Fun Ideas & Easy Stamping Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©F+W Media 10 2. Wrap the lace around your selected roller and mark where it should be cut. • Acrylictips paints can be used with • The paint will last longer on the 3. Cut it to size and recheck that it fits the stamps, but if you’re printing on bigger rollers as they cover a before gluing it to the chosen roller. fabric, use fabric paint, silk paints, larger area. The paint will become 4. Use acrylic paint to make your or for the background colors. lighter the farther you roll, but Acrylics can leave the fabric quite there are some nice effects when first print, and then let the stiff. Thickened dyes are another the paint is quite light. Apply more roller dry with the paint alternative. paint to the roller if it becomes too left on. Once dry, the paint faint, even if it’s halfway across the • If some areas don’t print well, will act as a coating on page. you can cut the best areas out for the textile and the roller collage, or disguise the bad bits • Experiment on scrap paper to can then be washed with more stamping on top. check the amount of paint required after the next use. for your chosen roller and effect. This only works on a Add water to the paint as required; non-porous roller. it may need to be a little runnier for If you want a bigger roller, glue funky fabric. note: Knitting foam onto the cork. Let the edges of the • Build up layers of pattern by using becomes soggy ends meet, but don’t overlap them. (I used one roller on top of another after when washed and this system on an old craft sponge roller: allowing the first one to dry. takes too long to dry, so it’s better I removed the sponge and glued fun foam • If you really don’t want to get paint to leave the paint in its place. I used 2 layers of foam plus on your fingers, make all your to dry on the a layer with a foam pattern—3 layers in rollers using kids’ craft rollers with roller after each use. total.) handles. Remove the sponge and replace it with fun foam, building up the layers to make it fatter and wine bottle corks spongy tube pipe firmer, but don’t overlap the foam. Decorative paint rollers, wallpaper Corks can be cut (carefully) with a craft insulation seam rollers, or lint rollers could knife. Simple marks can make a nice This is really easy to also be an option, although I pattern. A simple, long, thin triangle cut with a craft knife haven’t tried these—yet. Or, just from the edge is an example. and it is easy to use. wear gloves when you paint.

Rolling a pattern with a cork is time 1. Draw your • Some of the rollers leave a better consuming as the cork is small design on the impression than others. For instance, a pattern made in fun so you will have to roll it many times. tube with a foam using punch pliers can create Also, corks cannot hold a lot of paint marker. a pattern that looks more like lace so you will probably have to apply 2. Carefully carve than real lace. paint for every “roll.” out the pattern • Some rollers will last longer than areas with a others. Use them as long as craft knife. possible and then discard. • If you want a section without 3. Apply paint patterning, mask the area with and roll as paper before rolling. above. These • Roll some patterns with a deep tubes can be rinsed paint color, allow them to dry, and under tap water after use. then scan them into the computer. linsart.co.uk They make wonderful backgrounds for your digital work.

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Guide to Art Stamps: Fun Ideas & Easy Stamping Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©F+W Media 12 COMBINING COLLAGRAPHY, FOAM-PLATE PRINTING, AND HAND-CARVED STAMPS FOR ONE-OF-A-KIND COLLAGES Cecilia Swatton

aving a fling with several art-making processes, I’ve created an array BASIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR hof elements for “Garden Collage” and other art pieces. My dabbling included three simplified versions of printmaking: foam-plate printing, foam-plate collagraphy, and stamping with original-design, hand-carved rubber stamps. The resulting prints have a primitive, hand-drawn look that can make your printing collage as unique as a signature. I chose a fruit-and-vegetable theme and even 1. Cut your foam into desired shapes. added dried slices of carrots, oranges, and zucchini as collage elements. As the There are several craft foams available, but you can also use a viewer’s attention travels through the work, I want to provide interest every inch thoroughly washed meat tray. along the way. 2. Lightly draw your design onto the cut shapes, but don’t press into the by brushing on Liquitex Gloss foam yet. Medium, pre-mixed with Golden’s beginning 3. When you are happy with your quinacridone crimson (2 parts design, go over the lines with a preparation medium and 1 part acrylic paint). ballpoint pen, pressing firmly to pierce the skin of the sheet and 4. From the mesh produce bag, cut 2 m at e r i a l s create an impression. irregular shapes, varying in width • Newspaper from 1⁄4" to 21⁄4", one 8" long and 4. Lay your paper on your work • Liquitex® Gloss Medium the other 4" long. Brush with gold surface. • Golden® quinacridone crimson metallic acrylic paint. 5. Brush a light covering of ink or • String acrylic paint onto your print block and place the block face-down • White tissue paper onto your paper. • Mesh produce bag preparing the 6. Run a brayer over the block and vegetables then peel the block off the paper. directions m at e r i a l s To read more about foam-plate printing, I recommend Moira Ackers’ 1. Lay a base of newspaper on your • Fresh vegetables article “Who Can Resist Magic?” work surface. • Pot with hot water in the Spring 2006 Cloth Paper Scissors®. 2. Crisscross lengths of string across • White —multiple layers, the newspaper to create a grid approximately 6" thick pattern. • A heavy object for pressing, such as a large hardcover book 3. Cover the grid with white tissue paper and bond the 3 layers

Guide to Art Stamps: Fun Ideas & Easy Stamping Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©F+W Media 13 Collagraphic prints are the red cherries at the upper right corner, the red mini- pear with cherries in the upper middle portion, and the red apple directly under the central halved orange.

note: Materials, set-up, and procedures for collagraphy and foam-plate printing are so similar that it’s my practice to segue immediately from one process to the next.

collagraphy m at e r i a l s • Paper towels and disposable gloves (Clean fingers keep the prints clean.) • 4” rubber brayer • Plastic cutting board with a somewhat rough surface • Speedball® Water-soluble Block Printing Ink (red) and Ink Extender • Substrates (including newspaper) • Burnishing tool (bone folder, back of a spoon, or other) • Very sharp, short-blade scissors • Liquitex® Gloss Medium • Assorted brushes • Krylon® spray fixative • Thick, sturdy cardboard (preferably with white, glossy surface) • Crescent hot press illustration board, cut down to a workable size directions papermaking, for press-drying handmade papers. 1. Simmer the desired vegetables preparing the (whole) in water until they start In a few days they will be “dried” and collagraphic to soften. ready for use. printing plate 2. Remove the vegetables from printmaking 1. Draw, stencil, or stamp images on the the water, cool, and slice to a 1⁄ " 8 glossy cardstock and cut them out. thickness. Sandwich the slices In “Garden Collage”, the foam-plate between layers of white felt and press prints are: the center image (cherries 2. Using gloss medium, glue your under a heavy object. Replace the and halved orange) and the two red cutouts to the illustration board, layers of felt nearest the slices every rectangles, one in the upper right (apple, then coat the entire surface with few hours, as they become moist. cherries, pear) and the other at bottom- gel medium. Use a wide brush for center (pear, halved). large areas and a narrow brush for note: this felt-stack method is exactly the same process used in

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removing excess medium around the edges of the cutouts. collage 3. Allow it to dry and then turn the assembly board face-down and evenly coat the 1. In separate bowls, mix diluted Flow- 2. In a spray bottle, mix some thinned back in the same manner. Aid with each of the 3 colors of paint crimson with some thinned nickel 4. Repeat step 3 twice more, making the to thin them. azo gold. plate waterproof. m at e r i a l s directions • All previously prepared materials • Liquitex® matte gel medium 1. Squeeze a dollop of ink onto the • Tissue—patterned orange and • Liquitex® Flow-Aid™, diluted cutting board, add a dab of extender, Chinese red • Scissors and roll the brayer across this several • Loose-weave maroon and ivory • Spray bottles times to mix it and coat the roller handmade papers • Cotton swabs with the mixture. • Kraft paper • Assorted brushes • Asian newspapers 2. Hold the printing plate in place while • Disposable bowls • Golden® acrylics – turquoise rolling the inked brayer across the • Rags raised area of the cutout. (phthalo), quinacridone nickel azo gold, quinacridone crimson • Masking tape 3. Holding the plate face-up, press the • Rectangles cut from plastic • Pre-stretched canvas, (16" × 20"), substrate down onto it. Burnish from window screen gallery-wrap style the top to transfer the ink and then • Black brads • Large book for transfers peel the print and plate apart. • X-acto® knife • Transparency sheet(s) • Computer with program that reverses 4. When you are done printing, • Asian-themed rubber stamp text wash the plate. • Sta–z-On® Ink pad in jet black • Inkjet printer • Small grid cut from At this point you can create foam-plate plastic “canvas” • Bone folder prints. When finished, make certain to • 3-dimensional molded resin pears immediately wash all tools.

Guide to Art Stamps: Fun Ideas & Easy Stamping Techniques presented by clothpaperscissors.com ©F+W Media 15 3. Using masking tape, tape the small making 1 transfer on the upper left • red collagraphy prints on Asian plastic grid to the canvas and then and another on the lower right. newspaper scraps spray orange-crimson through the • 3 sets of sliced, dried fruit and 8. Tear the red and orange tissue into grid. vegetables scraps and use gel medium to glue • gold-painted mesh 4. Paint other areas with thinned nickel some of the orange scraps to the • 3 foam-plate prints azo gold, rag rubbing randomly. canvas. • grid paper from Process 1 5. Reposition the plastic grid, add more 9. Add some thinned turquoise. In some 13. Spray the canvas randomly with crimson to the spray bottle, and places, pour the paint on the canvas, thinned turquoise paint. spray again through the grid. allowing it to run downward. In other areas, 14. Cut the window screen into 3 6. Place the book underneath your dry brush a turquoise layer over the rectangles, 2 the same size as the 2 canvas to support it. crimson and nickel azo gold. red foam-plate prints. 7. Create a transfer by printing reversed 10. Randomly brush some thinned 15. Remove the book from beneath the text onto the crimson onto the canvas, then canvas and use the X-acto knife’s “wrong” (shiny) use it to stain some of the Asian tip to cut 8 tiny slits in the canvas, side of a newspaper. 1 at each corner of the 2 red foam- transparency. plate prints. Insert black brads to Place the 11. Crumple and re-smooth some Kraft hold the screens in place. transparency, paper, then stamp it with an Asian- wet-side style stamp using jet black Sta–z-On 16. Working from the back, spread the down, on the ink. brad legs and use cotton swabs to canvas and dab gel medium onto the cuts. 12. Using gel medium, add the burnish following to the canvas in repeating, 17. Near mid-canvas, use gel medium to with a overlapping layers: add the molded resin piece (2 pears bone • red tissue scraps with leaves). folder. • torn scraps of handmade papers ceciliaswatton.blogspot.com Print 2 • “plain” and red-stained Asian sheets in papers, edges torn succession,

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