Silk flowers supply a great stamping medium and themed ornament for scrapbooking and clear stamping projects. The effects are remarkable and so simple to accomplish.
Choosing the silk flower
When clear stamping on silk flowers, you will find that the stamped images will show up best on pastel or white petals. It is simple to use darker colors for contrast.
Basic Stamp
Disassemble the silk flowers
To begin, settle on the flowers that go best with your task inspecting petal size and shape. Slide all the pieces off stem to cut off the petal layers. Discard the plastic pieces.
Stamping on the flowers
Using your clear stamps and clear acrylic stamping blocks, stamp your chosen image on the petals. You may wish to stamp down the town of each petal or stamp the compose evenly over the whole surface of each petal. Background clear stamps will stamp larger parts of each silk flower, where border clear stamps are great for stamping a patterned strip down the town of each petal. Stamping in one color or manifold colors will add yet more range on your silk flowers.
Attaching the silk flowers
To attach your stamped flower to your paper, simply punch a small hole where you desire the town of your flower. Use a large brad or mixture of round paper layers with a smaller brad to form the town of your flower. You may wish to clear stamp leaves or use silk leaves for foliage.
Clear stamping on silk flowers will add a new dimension to your scrapbooking and clear stamping projects. It's not only easy but Fun!
To see pictures of stamped flowers go to http://www.clearlyrubberstamping.com/flower-stamping
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