Yes, I'm a bit of a cheater. I bought a stamp specifically made for making mosaics from Starving Artistamps a long, long time ago. I watched them demonstrate and they made it look so easy! When I got home, not so much! So I finally tried again. On my first attempt I used a pigment ink stamp pad that was multicolored. I used StazOn ink for the tree. It looks better in the photo than in person. I tried again using a Versamark stamp pad for the tiles and then StazOn black for the dragonflies. Then I embossed with clear powder. The effect is much better, but for some reason, when I heated the embossing powder, it turned a pinkish color. I'm not a pink person, so I was a little taken aback, but found some paper and ribbon and worked it out. I definately will keep trying with the mosaic stamp, but I need to work on something more manly......
'cheater' or not these came out really nice
ReplyDeleteI'd cheat too if I were to try this again. You're right. It's harder than it appears. I just threw out some rubber, so I would go with a stamp too. Yours turned out great! It's hard to stamp on embossing without slipping and smearing.
ReplyDeleteI haven't tried this yet, but I think if you stamp the design first, then stamp and emboss the mosaic, it might be easier than trying to stamp on top of the embossing.
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