I’m realizing just how noisy it is around here ALL. THE. TIME.  It’s really starting to get to me, I think.   One of the things I loved about being off in the summer was all the quiet time in the house. Even with the kids being home, they often would play outside, hang in their room or go to grandma’s, so I could do whatever I wanted (or needed) to do, like craft, clean, decorate, or just hear myself think.  I don’t consider myself a loner, but I do like alone time. I also don’t like people up under me when I’m trying to work.  For example, if I’m cleaning the kitchen…I mean really cleaning…”get out of the kitchen”.  Well, my hubby has been out of work for a few years, so now he’s home 24/7 and although I love him, I never seem to get alone time anymore unless I leave the house.

“Kiss” the solid, inked stamp to an uninked stamp.  In this case, I inked the solid butterfly stamp from the “Your Own Kind of Wonderful” stamp set (available 8/1/14) in Sorbet ink and kissed it to the scroll butterfly from the same set.  Some of the ink gets removed and leaves a pattern on the inked stamp.

This is essentially the same technique as the previous one, but just reversed.  I inked the scroll buttefly and kissed it with the solid butterfly.  The ink transfers the pattern on to the uninked stamp. This is where you can really switch it up with different patterns as shown next.

As you can see here, I kissed the uninked, solid butterfly to a floral background stamp and a chevron background stamp, both from the “In the Background” stamp set. The third example was created using the linen background from the “Distressed Backgrounds” stamp set.

In this example, I inked the solid butterfly with Sorbet and then kissed it with the scroll butterfly that was inked with Desert Sand. A great way to incorporate a couple of colors on a stamp without getting ink from one ink pad onto another.

Here’s another way to get two colors onto an image.  I inked the solid butterfly in Sorbet and then stamped the solid image onto my cardstock.  Next, I cleaned off the stamp and then kissed it to the floral background stamp that I inked in Desert Sand.  Because Desert Sand isn’t very dark, the effect is very subtle.  However, you certainly could get a more noticable effect by using a darker ink on the patterned stamp.

This is really the same as the technique above, except this time, I used second generation stamp on the solid butterfly (ink, stamp and stamp again).  Then I kissed the clean, solid butterfly stamp onto the inked floral background stamp and then stamped that over the first image.

Here is a close up of the butterfly on my card in which I used the “Kissing” technique. Hope you enjoyed my throw-together tutorial. I may have to consider getting up at 3 a.m. to create a the next tutorial. Heehee. Don’t forget about this month’s specials… Until next time….