Playing with My Unity Stamps And Faber-Castell Gelatos

All of this week the awesome design team at Unity Stamps have been featuring stamping techniques using Faber-Castell products and I'm jumping on board with a technique that I have wanted to play with for a while - coloring my stamp with my gelato's then spraying the stamp with water and stamping on watercolor paper to create a watercolor effect... Swoon!  Here's my completed card

And here's how I did it: 1. Color your stamp with some gelatos and then spray your stamp with a mister.   Note:  the  more water you use the more "watercolor effect" you will get.

2. stamp onto paper... I used 120lbs water color paper because it will absorb the water and gelato color better than regular cardstock.  I used a heat gun to fast forward the drying process  Note:  I dabbed off colors that were running together and creating muddiness.

3. You can also recolor the wet stamp with more gelato and re-spray for deeper color and even more of a water color effect.

After our stamped images have dried you can do many things, like stamp again over top with a darker colored ink, or stamp on tissue-paper, but I'm saving That particular technique for my next post!  

Thanks for stopping by today to see what I am up to, and why not pop on over to the Unity Blog  and to the Faber Castell blog to check out all the amazing-ness of these two design teams!

I'm entering this card into Unity's "Friends with Flair" that takes place every Friday... Smile

And into Avenue 613 Challenge #89 - Anything Goes 
Wish me luck!

And don't forget to leave me a comment if hyou like what you are seeing... I love to get them!

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