Use your mist as ink with Kelly Purkey!

Hi everyone, it's Kelly here with a little tutorial on how I did the stamping with mist on my Run This Town layout from Monday's post. 

 

It's an easy technique to do and it gives your stamping a cool water color effect - which is a nice switch up from using a regular ink pad!




I start by spraying some mist onto the backside of the clear stamp package.  This is an easy place to spray you ink because it won't dry on the plastic and can wipe off easily when you're done. I usually place paper towel underneath my stamp set to soak up the excess mist that comes out.  Set up your stamps like you normally would on a block.




Ink up the stamps by gently dabbing them into the mist.  You can push them around in the mist to make sure that all of the stamp gets covered with mist.

If the mist if very runny or it looks like there's too much mist on there, "kiss" the stamps lightly onto paper towel before stamping down.  This will help give you a clean stamped image and not too much of a mist blur on your paper.




Stamp onto your paper like normal.

You can see what a cool effect this gives - some light shades and some dark, a bit of blobs, and looks like watercolor paint.  It looks great when you spray two colors of mist together as well!  If you try this, be sure to link to this post so we can all see it!

~ Kelly Purkey

Thank you Kelly for joining us this week with a fun technique!  SCT fans...enabler alert...Kelly has a new class starting April 4th over at Studio Calico that you just *may* want to check out!  http://www.studiocalico.com/shop/classrooms/sketchbook-4   It's a great class!

And yesterday we offered a spring issue to a lucky reader and that lucky reader is...

Beautiful Spring Day! Just found your site last week! Love it! Posted by: Reymie | March 20, 2012 at 07:33 PM

Congrats Reymie!  So glad you found us last week!  Just send your address to jen@scrapbookandcards.com and we'll get the spring issue out to you!

Have a wonderful day everyone!

~  Catherine

Comments

[Monika Wright]

COOL
COOL
COOL
COOL
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[Joan Fowler]

Love the layout. I have not tried stamping with my mists but I just used it to paint some chipboard letters after putting on a basecoat of gesso. It actually turned out looking like woodgrain. A pleasant surprise. Any chance you could give me the brand of those acrylic stamps. I love that set.

[MichelleGB]

Fun idea for using mists! Thanks for the inspiration!

[Phyllis]

cleaver idea!

[Emily Halliburton Muto]

What an awesome and creative idea! Thanks for sharing!

[Colleen]

This is great! Thanks for the tutorial

[Becky Fleck]

What a great tut, Kelly! Love it :)

[Vicki S]

Great tutorial! Now I have another use for all my mists.
I bet it would look great on flower stamps.
Thanks!

[Bev W.]

I love this!!!

[kerry]

Clear, simple, but great tutorial -- thanks!

[Virginia L.]

Love the misting effect! so cool and graphic! Thanks for the inspiration!

[MaryAnn N]

Reply to Joan Fowler..the alpha stamp set is a joint release from Studio Calico and Hero Arts available in a Studio Calico kit. I'm not certain if it is for sale outside of the kit. I love it too mainly due to the solid letters and negative images.
Love the misting idea..more inspiration and a new technique to try. Thanks Kelly.

[Jingle]

Love this!

[Kathy P]

Great idea, and looks great! THanks for sharing cool tutorial!~

[Jennyfer L]

Cool technique! Will need to try this out.

[Shannon91]

Thanks for this technique !!! I love effect...
Bizz

[Ruza]

Super cool idea! TFS!

[Freya Dunbar]

Very cool!! I have lots of mists!! What a great way to think outside of the bottle!! :)

[Debbie C.]

A new idea for stamping...I will give it a try.

[Cindy M.]

Great idea! I will be trying this very soon!

[Ruth G]

Kelly read my mind! I'd just been wondering if you could stamp with mists and now I know the answer is yes and the best way to do it! Thanks, Kelly!

[doreen moore]

absolutely love this technique