Today I'm showing you another way you can use your Copic Various Ink Refills to create a stamped background or main focal image, using solid, bold & chunky stamp images.
1. Using a craft stick, mix together Copic Various Ink Refill colors of choice into gel hand sanitizer on Ranger's Non-Stick Craft Sheet -- one color in each pile of hand sanitizer OR you can try mixing colors together, to create a new color. Use two or more colors, or just one. Since the Copic ink and hand sanitizer are both alcohol based, with the hand sanitizer having a high alcohol content, it serves as a great medium to hold the Copic color. Above, I used YG03 and R22 to create the background for this notecard:
2. Press Hero Arts Antique Brocade rubber stamp into colored gel, to ink up the stamp. Tap rubber stamp around in the gel colors, making sure all of rubber stamp surface is covered with color.
3. Stamp onto Arturo Soft White Single Card Panels. Alternately, you could stamp onto a heavy cardstock, which may buckle and/or warp when dried; whereas the Arturo paper is more absorbent and the color will quickly soak into the paper, thereby preventing as much spreading or smearing of color.
4. Let dry naturally (it won't take too long), or speed up drying process by using a heat tool.
Above left, I used just one color, V15, to stamp the center panel; then mounted it onto an Arturo Lavender Card. Basic Grey Opaline Indigo Half Pearls accent the violet stamped panel. I used the Copic YG03 Various Ink Refill to hand dye May Arts White Silk 1/4" Ribbon to tie around the brocade stamped center panel on the right, which was mounted to an Arturo Pale Pink Card.
Sentiments are all from the Hero Arts ClearDesign-Everyday Sayings, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad. Another added bonus to using the gel hand sanitizer -- your stamped project will smell nice, too!
I hope you have fun with this technique and let me know what you create with it! You can use any number of bold, solid stamp images! ~ Sharon
Stamps: Hero Arts Cling-Antique Brocade, ClearDesign-Everyday Sayings,
Paper: Arturo Soft White Single Card/Panels, Lavender Cards & Envelopes and Pale Pink Cards & Envelopes,
Ink: Copic Various Ink Refills-R22, YG03, V15; Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad
Accessories: Ranger Non-Stick Craft Sheet, Claudine Hellmuth Craft Sticks and Heat It Craft Tool; Hero Arts Pink Crystal Gemstones; Basic Grey Opaline Half Pearls-Indigo; May Arts White Silk 1/4" Ribbon (dyed with YG03 Various Ink Refill)
Other: Gel hand sanitizer
