Kissed Seahorse

I used the kissing technique on this card.  I had a stamp with 3x3 flat square blocks that gave kind of a grainy look.  I inked that up with Pool Party, inked the seaweed up with Island Indigo and stamped the seaweed onto my 3x3 block stamp and then finally stamped on white paper. 

Stamps:  Michael Strong (Cloisonné Sea Turtle/Seaweed, Cloisonné Seahorse),  Stampendous (Shadow Tiles)

Michael Strong Card of the Day - Technique Thursday

The technique for today is an old one but something I haven't done in a while.  It's quick and easy and uses something everyone has -- stamps!  The kissing technique.

Basically you just ink up a solid stamp with one colour of ink (Wild Wasabi):

Then you stamp on it with another stamp in a different colour (Garden Green):

 

The result:

 Do that all over your stamp and then huff on the stamp (to re-moisten the ink) and stamp on paper to get something like this:

 Here is the card I made:

 

The tiny flower is from Mikes's Busy-bee stamp set and I also used Mike's Gecko.  The vine down below is a die cut that I accidently glued onto the bottom of the card rather than the side (like I wanted) but I actually think it looks better there so that must have been fate or destiny playing a part there...or maybe just me rationalizing the whole situation.  The paper for both the card and the vine is Garden Green.

The finished card is 5.25x5.25.