Tips & Techniques Tuesday - July 2, 2019 - Mountain Sponging

I love to use sponges and daubers in my work and love to do sponging techniques.  I have seen a lot of folks doing Mountains with sunsets in their cards and wanted to try it out.  So I did.  Took me a bit to work out how to really do it but I did and now I love to do them.

Today I will show you the technique and then on There's A Card Thursday we will put the whole card together.

I was mainly doing this for a silhouette card I wanted to do for the Stamp A Month Club.  It is a beautiful card and you can see it if you join the Stamp a month club Join by clicking here

Here is the card we are making.

Tell me do those look like Bob Ross Mountains?
One great thing is no two are alike.

Let's see how to do this.

tams# 34806

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Instructions:

Making the Mountains

1. Starting with the lightest Pink ink with sponge dauber, sponge on the bottom 2/3 of the Whisper White.  You do not need to cover ever bit of it and it does not need to be even.
2. Add the next pink color and do it the same way just sponge it on the bottom 2/3 and you don’t need to have it even or completely covered.
3. Add a bit of the Mango Melody toward the top of the Pinks.  Not a lot just some to make it look like sun shining.
4. Start with the lightest blue and with the sponge dauber sponge from the top down. You can go over a little of the Pink.  You want to get the darkest Blue at the top of the card.
5. Continue with all the blues except Night of Navy, in the same manner making sure that it is Darkest on the top.
6. Rip scrap paper to make mountains. NOTE this is going to be different. You are going to use the part that you ripped off not the mountains but what you ripped to make the mountains.
7. Place the Scrap Paper on the Pink Area – It is usually on top not the bottom to make the mountains.  Leave some pink, you may want to hold down your scrap paper with Washi Tape.  Ink up you Sponge Dauber with Night of Navy and start on the scrap and come down, Not  very far you do not want to go to the bottom.  Keep going across you may want to go in a straight line down as sometimes if you use the circle motion it rips the paper. 
8. You can either use the same paper or another piece but move down the card and repeat you can leave some pink in between.  Do the same thing don’t go all the way down but make sure you have an outline.
9. Repeat a Third or even a fourth time on the last one you can go al the way to the end of the Whisper White. 
10. You can always go back and put in another layer if you want.

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Stamp & Camp with Mary #simplestamping - May 22, 2019 - #simplestamping Let it Ride Sponging

Just want to ask everyone if they got their catalog.  Most of the folks that I sent one to has gotten theirs.  If you spent $50 with me from April last year until this year you should have gotten one.  You can e-mail me if you think you should have and didn't.

Below I will be listing all the places we will be in May, June and part of July.  If I am coming to your area and you would like to meet or have a party just let me know.

Today on #simplestamping I will be using Let It Ride and again doing some sponging to make a great base card.

So let's look at how to make this quick and easy card.

tams# 32625

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Supplies: Stamp Set - Let It Ride [148765]; Ink - Tuxedo Black Memento [132708], Blueberry Bushel [147138], Tranquil Tide [147146]; Card Stock - Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes [131527]; Accessories - Stamping Sponges [141337].

Instructions:

1. With Stamping Sponges sponge Blueberry Bushel on the top of the  Note Card and Tranquil Tide at the bottom.
2. With Memento Black Stamp the Horse and saying.

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May 30 to June 7 Blue Mounds State Park Blue Mounds WI
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June 17 Straits State Park in St. Ignace MI
June 18 to June 27 Sleepy Hollow State Park Laingsburg MI
July 2 to July 9 Rushmore Shadow in Rapid City SD
July 9 -  Cheyenne area.  

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Tips & Techniques Tuesday - June 7, 2016 - Rainbow Sponging on Photo Paper

Today I want to show you a great and fun technique.  Do you get Photo Paper every time you buy HP ink.  I have a ton of it and I don't print off photos so what do I do with it?  I make great background or fun coloring projects.  To day I am going to show you how to do a Rainbow with sponging on Photo Paper.

We will finish off the Card on There's A card Thursday, so check back then.  Now let's see how to make this great Rainbow.  If you like this please purchase your supplies from my shop by clicking here.




Now that was fun and so easy.  Get out all that photo paper and start creating.

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Mary

Grandma's Rocking Chair - September 8, 2013 - Sponging

Grandma's Rocking Chair question for today: How do you sponge?

OK this seems like an easy question but there are so many ways I can answer this that it will be hard just to answer one way.  So I may wander around for this answer so please bear with me, and enjoy my ramblings.

First off you can sponge with the same type of sponge and the same ink but come up with different looks.

So what do you sponge with?  Funny question? Actually you can sponge with more than a sponge.

Of Course there is a 1) Sponge.

Stampin' Up sells sponges 3 to a package (101610, $3.50).  I usually cut them into 6 or 8 pieces. So you can get 18 to 24 pieces so two packs and you can have a sponge for each ink Stampin' Up! ink color.  I label my sponges so that I don't contaminate them with other colors.

Even though you can use some to mix colors, when I want to do that I just cut a sponge and then throw it away after I am done.  Sponges leave a light sparser filling in, though you can use it to get a full thick fill it takes a little more work. You can use different types of sponges also.  I have used Natural sponges, cleaning sponges, and other sponges.

2) Sponge Daubers

These are denser sponges and have a richer fuller application. They are like make-up sponges.  Stampin' Up! sells Sponge daubers 12 to a package (102892, $10.95).  I like them instead of make-up sponges because you can put them on your fingers.  I put a small mailing label on them with the ink color and keep them in a zip lock bag (see above photo).  I like using them for emboss resistance and to color the Silver Glimmer Paper.

3) Plastic Bath Sponges

These make an interesting sponging look.  I use them if I want to have a full sponged background.  I usually get them from the Dollar spot in Target or the Dollar Tree Store.  With this one you can wash out and use with different inks if cleaned off.

4) Rags or dish clothes.  I don't use these much anymore, my husband doesn't like me to ruin his dish clothes. It is almost like raging paint on walls and never gives the same look twice.

Now for the next thing about sponging is how do you apply the ink to the cardstock.

1. You can daub it on.  With a sponge this gives you  a light non uniform look.  The blue on the following card was done with a sponge and daubing.

With a Sponge Dauber it sometimes appears as dots.  It is fun to make a background with and is great to use to make a sun or a moon.  In the card below it was used to color the brown ground and you can see it was use for some of the trees, where some of the trees a regular sponge was used.

 2)  Circle application with either a sponge or a dauber.  Just take the sponge or dauber and ink it up and starting off the cardstock make circles (you can also got back and forth) on to the cardstock.  This creates a thick filled in look.  The card below is emboss resistance the pool party is sponged on with a dauber and circled on.

 3) Edging, this is just putting some ink with a sponge or dauber on the edge of the card stock. Just put the ink on the dauber or sponge and pull it off the cardstock.  You can do a small area or a large area. It can be a light touch or a heavy touch making it a filled in frame. You can see both ways in the following two photos.

4) Filling in and coloring glimmer paper. 

You can use a sponge or dauber to fill in cut outs. Such as punch outs, die cuts or use as a reversal and sponge over a punched image to make a reverse image. I did the below on using the new Expression die cut reverse cut.  I used the cut out for a card and then sponged the left over and had a reverse image.

Also using Sponges or Daubers you can make the Silver Glitter paper any color.  I like using daubers as it is faster and fills in heavier with more color.  You can see it below, same silver glitter paper ends up two different colors.

Not everything about sponging but I hope it gives you enough to wet your appetite to try it.  It is a fun technique and gives you some great results.

If you have a stamping question or would like me to do a review on a stamping item or technique please leave a comment or e-mail me at marysstamping at gmail.com

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