Hey, how fun, the date for today's technique works for both the US and other countries! I love those kinds of coincidences. Today's challenge, faux wood burning is very simple. Shelly (mcschmidty) suggested it to me; I'd done it before at a technique club but never thought to use it for a TLC, so thanks, Shelly! A couple of dirty girls (asweetjewel and cheermom) used the technique for the newest design team theme so check out their samples...really excellent! I would have included a video but I can't get it to link. If you want to watch it, search on YouTube for faux wood burning technique, should be the first one that comes up. Fair warning: it's one of those live ones, it's longish.
1) Choose a heavy, light colored cardstock or watercolor paper.
2) Stamp your image multiple times, using a stamp platform and a dark dye ink, like SU early espresso or the like. If you don't use a stamping platform, you'll need to ink up your image very heavily.
3) Finally simply use a very wet brush to brush across the whole paper. The dye ink will bleed; you can make it streaky or keep working it until you are satisfied. The video suggests using a scoring tool to put in some grooves like it's real wood but I didn't do that
Here's a link to our
Gallery at Splitcoaststampers faux wood burning gallery
My card will be in the first post.
Remember to use the keyword
TLC911 when you are uploading. It's helpful if you come back and leave a link on this thread, especially in case you made a typo and people may not find your card.
If you're not sure how to link your card on the thread here, here's how:
1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one window for your card and one for this thread.
2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link.
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4. Click EDIT. Click COPY
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TLC911 faux wood burning 08/08/2022
