Wood Grain Panel

Afternoon all,

I have had quite a few requests to explain this technique....Dragana....I have not seen the SU wood grain stamp. I wonder if it is even available here in Australia!

You do need to have dye reinkers. I used the following: Adirondack Espresso, Rust, Caramel and Impress 52 Chocolate. I didn't have a grey reinker I could find, so I used Ancient Page Stone Grey inkpad which worked just fine.

This is soooo simple.

1. In one of those paint palette thingies (you know the ones with little wells in them), put a two or three drops of each reinker into separate sections of the palette.

2. Then, using the toothbrush, just smooch the bristles into the darkest colour reinker to pick up the colour.

3. Use a sweeping motion (much like "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from Walt Disney, swipe over plain white card (nothing fancy...just plain....no grain card). You do not want to fill up all the white space! Don't worry if it blobs in places if you are a tad heavy handed...that will just look like a knot in the wood!

4. Repeat with the other colours...ending with the grey inkpad and all I did there was swipe it over the card a few times.

5. Use a sponge and one of the lighter colours or the grey ink....fill in any white spaces left over.

6. Draw in the lines, the nails and the split bits of wood with a black Sharpie.

I first saw this technique accomplished this way in one of the really early Tech Junkies magazines (and I AM talking years and years ago!). If you have them all, as I do, sometimes it is an interesting journey to go back and revisit stuff.

It is wonderful to see a lot of the old techniques now being displayed anew on lots of the blogs and places like Stamp TV as they are so much fun to play with.