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Hi - i'm a new SU! demonstrator and someone has asked if they can use their stamps to stamp on their walls. I know we have stencils for that, but they want to use their stamps with classic ink. Will that work? Any help would be much appreciated!
I don't think that ink would be a good choice. I did DD's room at our old house and used craft paints. They turned out very cute. I used paper plates to hold the paint to load onto the stamp.
The craft ink will work. SU actually recommends using regular acrylic craft paint. As long as the stamp is cleaned immediately, it won't hurt the stamps.
ETA: "Ink!" "The craft ink will work." Sorry, lol...
One quick comment, sometimes in older houses walls are no longer plumb. By older houses I mean anything more than a year or two old. Sometimes, depending on the house, the contractor, etc., you will find that a wood-mounted stamp doesn't have the "give" needed to get good clear contact with the wall. Here are some tips:
1. Try it in a spot that is not immediately noticeable just in case it doesn't work out.
2. Stick to "solid" type stamps, really detailed images don't always work well.
3. Have a small amount of the base color paint readily available to "erase" mistakes.
4. TAKE YOUR TIME!
Hope that helps and good luck to your customer!
I haven't stamped on walls but have stamped with acrylic paint and have done a fair amount of stenciling on walls with acrylic paint. My suggestions would be:
1. Keep a pan of water and an old tooth brush handy to clean the stamp every little bit. Once the paint dries on the stamp it is very hard to get off.
2. Keep a damp cloth handy. If you make a mistake, you can easily wipe the image off while the paint is still damp. Once it dries it is permanent.
3. You can use the sponge that SU sells or one like it to put the paint on the stamp. You can get a more consistant amount of paint and not get too much which will make blobs when you stamp with it. Put a small (quarter size) amount of paint on a paper plate, dab sponge in paint dabbing it a few times on the plate to get an even amount on the sponge. Then sponge the paint onto the stamp. You will want to go to the sink and rinse out the sponge every so often to keep the paint from drying on the sponge.
Super tips in the post above. To avoid any paint on the wood, you can use masking tape and cover all the wood around the rubber. It peels right off after you clean the rubber. One more tip -- clean the stamp after every few impressions to avoid getting paint "clogged" into open parts of the image. I have stamped on walls several times and it's fun. You have an endless amount of color choices as acrylic craft paints are easily blendable.
Mary Beth
I have also done some stamping on walls. Acrylic paint is the best. Craft Ink is not recommended because it is harder to paint over in the future (there may be bleed through). I have also stamped with acrylic paint on clear contact paper and then cut around the image and applied as wall art - very cool. I would like to try stamping on the new SU clear vinyl - that may be even better.
Just a note: solid images work best for stamping on walls.
I finally got around to posting how I stamped my bathroom walls on my blog. I actually used the same paint I put on the ceiling for the stamping, but usually I use acrylic paint. The foam "pad" made the stamping SO much faster!
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We have had a wonderful border of acrylic paint stamped ferns (from many years ago) in our bathroom. Also stamped the toilet seat, curtain, framed objects, candle wraparounds, etc. It was wonderful! But, it's been there for years, so it's time to re-paint the walls.
What do we need to do to prepare the walls to paint over the acrylic paint stamped images?
If anything, maybe just lightly scuff up the stamped ferns with some fine sandpaper to blur their lines a bit. You may not even have to do that. When my son was little I painted/stamped/stenciled his room to look like a jungle. When I repainted the room so I could use it for my craft room I primed the walls with Kilz, but that was only because I was going from something of a Green Galore color scheme to more of a Barely Banana one. Even though some of the leaves and animals that I painted or stamped looked "thick," like their texture might show through the paint, I had no problem with that at all.
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STAMPING ON WALLS
