BABY WIPE STAMPING

Baby Wipe Stamping is a technique that has been around forever and it's a great way to utilize those re-inkers that tend to just sit in their box gathering dust.  It's simply a matter of adding a few drops of 3 or so different coloured re-inker onto a folded baby wipe and then stamping onto it.  A nice effect without the cost of having those multi-coloured inked pads and the added bonus of you can choose whatever colours you want to put together!  With the addition of some other focal stamps that you can colour, or by adding some die-cut shapes, it makes for a nice change to plain old boring black stamping.  To keep continuity between all of your elements, I try to repeat the colours that have already been used in your multi-coloured stamping to help tie it all together.  This is most evident in the colours I've used to colour in the girl and her clothes on "Reality".

"Balance"...

(Die-cut bird shapes have been slightly raised with

black foam tape but the branch has been stapled

on with black staples so you can't see them.  Both birds

and rocks down the bottom have been coloured with

Wink of Stella glitter brush pens, very subtle touch of shimmer.)

"Reality"...

(I stamped the bugs with the baby-wipe stamping method

and then drew around the shapes with an extra-fine sharpie.) 

"Depth of Life"...

(The steampunk dragonfly has been cut from black card

stock, then embossed with 2 different colours of black

UTEE mixed with Perfect Pearl Powders that makes

a gorgeous extra-thick embossing powder with shine.

The German Scrap down the bottom was also coated with

the gold UTEE mixture.)

"Melancholy"...

(I love how gorgeous this stamp looks using this technique!

The seam binding tape was coloured using co-ordinating

colours from the Distress Ink range and then stapled on.

See the little dotty specks on the card?  If you put your stamp

back down over your stamped image when it's dry, you can

then flick some watered down ink in the same colours as your

stamped image and the stamp will protect your image.)

"Karma"...

(Spiderweb stamped with Barn Door/Hickory Smoke/Spiced Marmalade.

Die-cut spider cut from black cardstock then coated with a mix of Black 

Utee and Pewter Perfect Pearl.  I stopped heating it before it was all totally

melted to get that gritty texture that's happening on the spider's back).