Stamp Kissing

As someone who enjoys creating personal cards I find that working with the same stamps can become limiting in the creative process. How many different colours can you stamp something until it just becomes boring?

Well there is a new technique called stamp kissing. It’s ingeniously simple but will definitely add the much needed excitement to your craft projects.

Simply find two stamps: one should be an outline of an object like a heart. Your other stamp should be a pattern, texture, or design. Using 2 different colours, stamp your outline stamp, in this case a heart, into the main ink colour. Set the stamp down with the inked side facing up.

Now take your patterned stamp, and ink it in the other colour you’ve chosen. Take this stamp and place it over top of your original stamp. The two inked sides should be touching. In essence, the stamps are “kissing”.

When you pull them apart, you’ll see that your heart now has a patterned design. Place your stamp on a piece of cardstock and you’ll end up with an intricate designed heart. The heart will be one colour, and the pattern on it will be another.