This series is all about stamping techniques—from the simple to the advanced. Today's "WoW" moment focuses on a fun fact of My Acrylix stamps: they have a front AND a back…and you can use BOTH sides to create incredible stamped images. Now, I know what you're thinking: "Huh?"
Here's where My Acrylix stamps prove yet again their superiority, versatility, and uniqueness. Of course, every stamp has a "front," a design in the polymer, be it a sentiment, texture, or icon, elaborate or essentialized. Everybody knows you ink the fronts and stamp away. However, stamps also have a "back" that's solid, and many of the stamp images have great solid shapes ideal for stamping as well, from hearts to horseshoes to paisleys or poppies.
Today's artwork features lots of artwork created using both the fronts AND the back sides of stamps. (And it does it all using a truly unusual but fab color combination of Juniper, Ponderosa Pine, Sweet Leaf, with a delightful dash of Crème Brulee, Sunset and Black for effect.)
Take a look at the "Lucky to have you" banner, created using our My Creations Cube (Z1152). In the first panel, the clover is created by stamping the BACK side of the heart stamp (from the Affection stamp set, C1441) four times on cardstock, then cutting out as a single image.
Next, stamp the back side of the heart image again, but this time, stamp each of the four clover petals separately and trim into four separate petals.
Now, use the front side of the criss-cross background stamp (from Universal Backgrounds, D1477) to add a great tone-on-tone texture to the heart-shaped clover petals.
Adhere each textured petal over the stamped base clover image and voila—perfection, front to back!
I love the subtle texturing on the "Valen-rocks" (a hybridization of Valentine and shamrocks).
ReplyDeleteLove how you show the out of the box use of the My Creations Cube, too.
Every week you give us a treasure!
Thanks.
Beautiful as usual!
ReplyDeleteI was going to try stamping on the backside of the Bohemian alphabet onto cardstock and cutout the letters (because sometimes you don't want the little flower swirl on the alphas) but i found that the backside on some of the letters are filled in with acrylic. Would it ruin the set to cut this acrylic out..so you could use the backside of the stamp? An example of what I'm talking about.. the letter a or the letter g or e.
ReplyDeleteOn second thought, instead of cutting up my good stamps, I stamped the Bohemian alphas on white cardstock, cut out and then sponged the same color of ink on it until it was consistent. Voila! Now I have a solid color Bohemian alpha!
ReplyDeleteWhat did you do with the second stamp?
ReplyDeleteThe first is cut into one clover, the third is placed on top for texture. I semed to have missed where you put the second stamping of the four indivdual heart clovers....thanks for the awesome idea