Chances are your craft room or child's play area has a
handful of colorful markers. Since markers are available
in so many different colors and often come packaged in
coordinating shades, markers are the perfect mediums to
stretch your color options without breaking the bank.
Using markers with rubber stamps is a perfect way to
make classy paper craft projects and bright vibrant
scrapbooking pages. Here are five great tips for getting
the most from your markers and rubber stamps and making
marker magic.
1. Mark up those ink jet transparencies! Using any ink
jet transparency, ink the rubber stamp for your project
with the desired marker color and stamp the print side
of the transparency. The glue on the ink jet
transparency will bond the marker ink to the
transparency film and will dry in a short period of
time. You can then cut around the stamped image and
mount on your project!
2. Color Metal! Using any silver brads, paper clips, or
any other silver metal embellishments, color the metal
with the marker of choice. If you are using water-based
markers, bond the ink to the metal with a light mist of
hair spray or acrylic spray-on glue and allow to dry.
This technique will allow you to make many different
custom colored metal embellishments coordinated with
your current project.
3. Cellophane Crackle Color! Take a piece of clear
cellophane and lay it on a flat surface. Tape the edges
to hold the cellophane in one place. Using a watermark
stamp pad, stamp the surface of the cellophane the
desired size according to the stamp you will be using.
Using your markers, color the stamped cellophane,
blending the colors with q-tips, brushes, or light mists
of water. Taking your rubber stamp, cover the surface by
gently tapping the stamp to the cellophane. Proceed to
stamp your project with this watercolor-crackled look!
4. Embossing Powder Power! Gently dust a piece of vellum
with corn starch. Using embossing ink, stamp the vellum
and cover with your choice of embossing powder. Using a
heat tool, melt the embossing powder. Take a handful of
similar colored markers and draw various sized triangles
in a random pattern on the reverse side of the stamped
vellum. Color in the triangles with the markers in a
random color pattern. Gently spray the surface with a
light water mist and allow to dry. Using spray-on
adhesive, lightly set the ink on the reverse side and
cut out around the embossed image. Attach to your next
project for an amazing stained glass raised vellum
embellishment!
5. Shade These Threads! Markers are the perfect mediums
for coloring in the non inked areas of a stamped fabric
image. Simply start by stamping the fabric with the
desired color dye-based ink pad. Allow to dry. Using
markers, color in all remaining areas accordingly. To
soften the marker lines, gently spray the fabric with
water. You can dry the fabric with a hair dryer or allow
to dry in the air. Cut out your fabric and place on the
desired project!
Using these simple marker techniques is a fantastic way
to gather a large variety of colors and inexpensively
fill in the color wheel areas for which you have no
stamp pads. Markers are a wonderful solution for vibrant
colors on a wide variety of surfaces. Go ahead, try
those markers and stamps out today!
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