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I'm trying to have a little stamping night for the girls from the youth group on Friday night. I was in Michael's yesterday buying magnetic strip for some post-it note holders for the fridge for them to make, when I saw these great porcelain ornaments on sale. I bought a bunch thinking we could stamp them with stazon on and color them with sharpies. The sharpies look.., well, a bit "sharp" overpowering. Anyone have any better ideas or tips for making these things?
I actually take a paintbrush and dip it into my stazon colors and paint the colors. It gives you a softer color. I did angels last year and they came out great. If you don't have a good brush, sometimes a q-tip will work.
Let us know, and post some pics!!
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I just tried painting on some cystal effects mixed with reinkers. I'll let you know how that turns out too! Do I need to spray and seal them, do you think?
I think you can scribble some Sharpie on plastic or acetate and then use that as a pallette - use either a blender pen or a damp brush or Q tip - I haven't tried it, just a thought
I did try the crystal effects and reinker idea and it is just too shiny...hard to see the actual stazon image. I also tried painting it on with the chalk inks but this rubs off...might have to seal it to make that work.....back to the drawing board!
You could paint them with Pueblo Glass paint (you bake this product to cure it). I do pottery (I have a home studio), and painting on a glazed surface is tricky. You need a "sticky" ink or paint - but these types of products are hard to get dry.
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I think that I'm going to give up for now and just stamp them with blue and violet stazon snowflakes...what do you think? I guess the other option would be stazon paint prints pointsettias.
I also purchase some of those ornaments and was wondering how to stamp on them. I only have black stazon and don't want to spend alot to have my kids decorate 4 ornaments. Could you (I) stamp with craft ink and then use clear embossing powder and heat? I did this once with glass and it worked.
Will this work with porcelain???
Thanks.
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I want to say when I did these several years ago, I colored them with markers and then sealed them. Here is a scan, if I can actually attach a photo... According to the date on the back, it's from 1996... I think it was a DOTS stamp....
I'm reviving this thread. I stamped on some porcelain ornaments tonight with Staz On and colored with copics and sharpies. I found I had to be very careful as the markers seemed to want to remove the stamped image in some places even though I heat set it. I ruined one ornament by trying to paint with Crystal Effects to seal it. Yuck! The other one seems o.k. unsealed but I'm worried the inks will rub off.
If you've stamped on ornaments I'd love to hear your tips for which coloring products you've used and if you seal them what do you use?
Thanks!
hhhmmm i have a couple thoughts - i am thinking you can probably paint them with alcohol inks - i have some too and this is what i was going to try but haven't time yet. another idea - brilliance inks work wonderfully on acrylic so i am thinking they might work on porcelain (heat set). y ou could paint with those. OR you could just alcohol ink the whole thing and then stamp the black image........also painting with dimensional pearls or liquid pearls might work but would probably need a sealer - maybe try krylon........wish i could go experiment but i am drowning in studio g shipping at the moment - i am anxious to see what you try.......
I did try the crystal effects and reinker idea and it is just too shiny...hard to see the actual stazon image. I also tried painting it on with the chalk inks but this rubs off...might have to seal it to make that work.....back to the drawing board!
Did you use a blender pen (or Versamarker) with the chalks? I'm thinking (but don't know for sure) that this would help set the chalk. Or do you mean the Colorbox chalk inkpads?
Looking forward to reading more tips and seeing more photos!
You might try let them sit in bleach over night Then rise and dry. I do this with dominos and it worked great. you can then color with chalk or markers. I seal them with kylon at the end.
Be sure to lighty spray or the chalk will run. I give them 2 or 3 layers of kylon
If these are anything like the ornaments SU carried years ago, I used to color them in using a blender pen and chalks. Then once they are colored in, give them a very light spritz with arosol hairspray to set.
I realize this reply is a little late. My sister painted her porcelain ornaments with Sharpie pens. She did a
snowman and glittered parts of it after painting. It is really pretty. She did not
seal it and said there has been no problems. I looked under "resources" on SCS because I thought that was where she got the technique but it is not there now.
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I see this thread is long over, but interested if anyone else has input. I bought a bunch of these porcelain ornaments at Michaels last year and tried to use it. I stamped in Staz on and tried to add some colour with markers without smearing the staz on which was not very successful, and then eventually got the picture to look semi ok, but it would smear if you touched it, so I sprayed with krylon and it all ran. then I gave up. at a buck or two each these can be expensive experiments. so is the trick to sealing with krylon to do it farther away/lighter? Any other ideas would be great :-)
Porcelain Ornament help!
