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after you get the soot on your CS, do you use a dry stamp and stamp on the soot or do you use versamark with it. Or do you use the versamark before the soot. I can't remember :? Can you emboss with it too? Is it best to just use a cheap taper candle or do you need a better quality one?
When I did it we used versamark o stamp on glossy cs 1st, let it dry really good. Then wave it through the candle soot, wipe off the stamped image with plain no lotion kleenex and voila - beautiful images.
Karrie G.
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Soot Stamping was one of the techniques that has been in the Technique Junkies newsletter. You might be able to find directions somewhere online. Here's the jist:
1. Use a cheap candle (makes more soot). Run glossy cardstock over the candle flame so it collects soot.
2. Have a container of water handy and be ready to drop your cardstock into it quickly if it starts flaming.
3. Don't touch the soot.
4. Stamp with an uninked stamp to remove some of the soot in the shape of the image.
5. Spray with a fixative to set.
I have used a cheap Bic lighter, it works great if your doing just one or two cards at a time (anymore and the lighter gets too hot :oops: ). Then I wipe off the soot with a tissue and stamp with classic black. I have even colored images in with SU markers and it looks beautiful.
UFFDA! wouldn't you know it, I got all my stuff out to do the soot stamping today, and my sis who is also my demo gave me a pack of us white instead of the glossy that I ordered. She gave my glossy to another customer who lives about 45 min. away
It's not like I can just drive over and get it, especially with the car in the shop. cry, cry, cry
Its a good thing she IS my sister
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Run glossy cardstock over the candle flame so it collects soot. Anita
If you run your cardstock through the flame you get more soot! Just make sure you move it quickly and don't leave it in one spot very long. Hope this helps!
OK! I finally got my first card done. It isn't the greatest, but it is a start, it looks nicer if you are actually looking at it in person. It's kinda tricky to do, you really need a steady hand or it smears. Anyway, here it is:
Make sure that you spray it with fixative, too, otherwise when you handle it you will get fingerprints on it -- yuck. Unless, of course, you like that look LOL...
TIP: Brayer your cardstock with rainbow ink FIRST, then soot it up, then stamp with a dry stamp...Pretty rainbow effect. I have a sample somewhere if you want to see it.
At my upline's meeting another wonderful demo had done it at a card shop. They stamped a line image in versamark and let it dry over night, then held it for the soot to collect and gently buffed it. The image was dark black and the buffed part was a taupe.gray. It was really quite pretty!
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They stamped a line image in versamark and let it dry over night, then held it for the soot to collect and gently buffed it. The image was dark black and the buffed part was a taupe.gray. It was really quite pretty!
Okay Britta :? :? How did they buff it without having the soot come off? Did they spray it with fixative then let it dry overnight?
Okay Britta :? :? How did they buff it without having the soot come off? Did they spray it with fixative then let it dry overnight?
The spot where it was VMed had a dark black color that I guess was burnt into the paper-so it stayed black. The other part that got buffed off became the taupe/gray color.
Clear as mud? :?
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One of the members of PennyWiseArts.com did a class on this Friday night. I couldn't do it then, but got the instructions from there. They stamp on the c.s. first and then wave it through the votive candle flame to get sooty and then wipe that off with a cotton ball puff. I want to try it, but have to get Valentine's stuff done first. They cards they did with this were beautiful.
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I haven't tried to put it on then, take it off -- what did the VersaMark line look like? Did it hold the soot, or wipe off? You know I just gotta try it.
The stamped image is dark and the background is kind of light gray. The versamark holds the soot and you wipe most of the rest away leaving a gray background. I wish I could show you a sample. They are beautiful.
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I didn't actually do it. They did it in a class (webcam) on PennyWiseArts on Friday night. They did spray it with a fixative after. I think one of the ladies even used hairspray. Then you let it dry and mount it on your background. Voila :o A beautiful card.
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Any SOOT stamping pros out there?
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