Evaporated Milk technique

[justampin]

Okay, I know it sounds crazy, but a clerk at a stamping store told me this one. If you paint on Evaporated milk and hit it with your heat gun you'll get a rust patina. Anyone out there done anything like this. If so tell us about it.

Justampin
Heather

[Sereikastamper]

I heard it as sweetened condensed I think! LOL Anyone done it?

[NiceRAK]

I have heard of this and I too thought it was sweetened condensed. Which would make sense because the sugars carmelizing would create the darkened color....
Anyone that has done this, we'd love details! AND SCANS...can't forget the scans!!

[justampin]

Of course, sweetend does make sense. I think I will have to pick some up on my daily it seems run to the grocery store.............How did my mother only shop on payday is beyond me

[cincystamper]

The Rubber Stamper magazine had an article about how to do this technique. It wasn't any time recently - maybe a year ago? I have the magazine at home, so if I remember when I get home, I'll look up the specifics (unless someone can help before then)!

[bethswope]

I've done this technique with the stipple butterfly. I embossing the butterfly in black and then with the small paint brush, brushed on the sweented milk and heated it with the heat gun. You get nice shades of brown to color in the butterfly. Very cool.

[Beate]

Hi there,

The technique was discribed in the rubber stamper magazine. I put stamping and condensed milk in my search engine and found this site:

http://www.inkartist.blogspot.com/20...t_archive.html

Michelle is a fellow SCS member. She has some samples and instructions on her site. Just scroll down a bit.

Hugs and smiles.

[musicmarth]

This technique was actually in the April/May 2004 issue of The Rubber Stamper. They showcased a card using the technique and the images used were sea horses and turtles. I wish I had a scanner (oh, santa!) to show you the card, but here is the general idea...

1. Paint a small amount ouf sweetened condensed milk onto a piece of card stock. Heat with a heat tool to caramalize. The condensed milk will remain slightly tacky.

2. Apply pigment powders (like PearlEx) to the caramelized milk with a paintbrush.

You can also apply the sweetened condensed milk to a rubber stamp, stamp the image and then caramelize.

Another SCS member, ginapier, has some cards made using this technique. You can go to www.splitcoaststampers.com/go/ginapier and do a search for "condensed milk." She has several cute cards using this technique.

All this talk about sweetened condensed milk is making my sweet tooth act up! I'll have to go make some coffee...and sweeten with a little SCM!

:lol:

[justampin]

Wow what would I do without this site Thanks for giving me the goods. Now to open up that can

Justampin'
Heather

[barbstamps]

Sweetened condensed milk gives you a thicker, heavier look. One day I didn't want to open a can for stamping (because then I'd have to use the rest of the can to make fudge, and then I'd have to eat it!). I tried regular 2% milk out of the refrigerator, and it gave an interesting, antiqued look. It did take a hot embossing gun to scorch the milk; the wimpy ones probably wouldn't work very well.

You can see a card I made using regular milk at this website:
http://lorilynn.bc2va.org. Look under cards, Star of Wonder.

Barb Coblentz

[PaperRapt]

The technique looked GREAT in the Stamper, but I have to admit if my DH saw me stamping with milk he would think I had fallen off the stamping boat. He would probably think I had hit my head or something and forgot to use ink! He works from home so he would be sure to see some of it going on!

Annette
http://stamponthis.com