no ink required

Playing with your stamps (without actually stamping)

Here's what you will need ...

serviettes (napkins) or squares of (good quality) toilet paper
pva glue (el cheapo is fine), water
bristle brush (stiff bristles not soft and not your best one either)
rubber stamp, not too finely detailed
small container to mix your glue and water in

There are a few variations on how to proceed ... this is what I have done here ...

first gently wet some tissues and place on top of your stamp, gently pushing down into the crevices with the brush (use an up and down, sort of pouncing method,

like you would for dry stencilling),

just use water for the first few layers, and then mix some pva with the water (maybe half and half) and keep putting down more layers. Be sure to work the tissue into the stamp pattern.

The above pic is right at the beginning of the process

you get the idea now, don't you?

just build up a thickness that you are happy with ... no rules

you can take it over the edges and trim later (if you like) and

when quite dry, you can rewet the edges only and then pull bits off (like I have done)

and then you can colour it any way you like

 

I have sprayed it with some homemade pretend glimmermist.

 

BTW, I did not invent this technique.

It's been done before.

Just thought you might like to see what I have made of it.