Saturday, June 11, 2011

How to kiss an egg

WHAT? KISS an EGG!!!
Actually.....it's how to kiss a RUBBER EGG!

What I'm really talking about is what stampers call the "Kissing" technique. It's a super fun technique that uses a stamp-on-stamp action to make a pattern on a solid rubber stamp. Background stamps work perfect for this. However...just about any patterned stamps can give you fantastic results!

Now...about the "kissing the rubber egg" thing...

For my card I used a stamp set from A Muse Studio called egg-stravaganza. I made the eggs into balloons!!! Clever if I do say so myself!

I inked up the solid egg...then "kissed" it with the patterned egg stamp. That removes some of the ink from the solid egg...creating a mirror image of the design. Next...stamp the solid "kissed" stamp on Sugar cardstock. Trim around the eggs to look like balloons...tie on some twine...BAM! EGG BALLOONS!

LOVE IT!


And you thought these were only for Easter....


Wanna see a video how to do the background kissing technique?
Give it up for Julie Ebersol!!!Movie Projector



All supplies are available from my A Muse Studio website.

Recipe
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Stamps
- Egg-stravaganza

Inks
- Bermuda; Sage; Latte; Slate

Papers
- Sugar; Sky; Latte

Misc
- Washi Tape Winter Assortment; Toffee Twine Ribbon; Grass Buttons; 3D Foam Adhesive


Reminder...something Egg-citing is coming June 15th on my A Muse Studio website!

4 comments:

kari bell said...

brilliant use of the egg! and i always love washi tape.

Donna B. said...

Very cute! Nice technique.

Janneke said...

Hi Lori, thank you for your lovely comment on my blog ;o)
I am fine and great! And you? Long time no see ... Saw you have facebook to ;o) I will look out for you in a view minuuts ..

Have a great weekend!

Hugs, Janneke XO

Doris Garvey said...

Love this idea Lori! Aren't you the clever one!