Playing with Stamp N’ Bond by Moira Sutton
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Visible Image Stamp Sets – Butterfly INKcognitio, Flower INKcognito and Learn to Fly
Again
From
stash – glitter, microbeads, stamping Film
Hi
Moira here with some experiments with Stamp n’ Bond. Someone whose judgement I
trust had recommended I try the Stampendous Stamp n’ Bond, a powder which when
heated allows loose material like glitter to stick to projects. I was dubious as
I had tried these types of products in the past and always been disappointed
but I thought lets give it a go. I used the same stamp on all my experiments,
the Butterfly from the Visible Image Butterfly Incognito Set, various.
Experiment 1
For the
first card I stamped the butterfly in Versamark, sprinkled on the Stamp n Bond,
heated till it melted – this is quick and obvious when it happens and tipped
Tim Holtz Distress Glitter on it and rubbed it in gently with my finger. I was
amazed it stuck and stayed stuck. As the direction I’d stamped the butterfly
looked a bit like it was crashing to earth I chose the sentiment from the “Learn
to Fly Again” set and stamped with, not sure why it did not come out gold but
like the sort of faded look it has.
Experiment 2
This
time I wanted to try using varied colours of fine glitter to see if the Stamp
n’ Bond would stay sticky long enough. The glitter was from my stash and I have
no idea what make it is but to be honest was surprised how dull it looked,
think I need to invest in brighter glitter. Again I stamped with the Versamark
on the Stamp n Bond, heated till it melted, I did have all the bottles of
glitter open ready on a separate sheet of paper for tap off and started in the middle of the image sprinkling
and tapping of the excess, then the green and finally blue. Again I rubbed it
in gently with my finger. This time the sentiment came from the Flower
INKcognito set.
Experiment 3
This
time I wanted to try something a bit larger than fine glitter so got out some
purple microbeads from my stash as I wanted a contrast colour to a black background.
Again the same process, again a happy result.
Experiment 4
This
did not go so well, so I reasoned if it could take microbeads it could take
Chunky Glass Glitter and it can in that it holds just as well as the others
things but the chunky glitter was not a good match for the stamp. I think with
a bold solid stamp the chunky glitter would be great.
Experiment 5
I had
lurking in my stash some Stix 2 Transfer foil, but no longer any instructions
nor memory of how to use it, did that stop me, hell no. So again I stamped and
sprinkled with the Stamp n Bond as I did in the other experiments, and laid on
the foil, with the colour facing the card, not much happened, and then I
twigged I had the foil the wrong way up, so I stamped and sprinkled again, and
laid down the foil the correct way burnishing firmly. When I peeled the foil
away I did not have a perfect image, obviously where I had doubled stamped
affected it but I rather liked the shabby look, so to set it off I gave it a
spritz with a couple of Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst stains with the foiled area
giving a great resist. I will finish this one off at some point but I had to
stop there as we were off out to a friends 60th.
So my
verdict is give it a try it is easy to use and gives reliable results. I’m
thinking Christmas, quite fitting given we had snow yesterday!
Moira
3 comments
Impressive! Thanks for taking us through that Moira. It was really interesting. Lx
ReplyDeleteThe end results of your experiments make it well worth it Moira as they're lovely. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
I have some of this and never used it, thanks for the tutorial.
ReplyDeleteLove
Amanda x
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