baby wipe technique

The baby wipe technique is one that I learned when I first started stamping more than twenty years ago and recently I watched an Instagram post from Sara, our CEO and she was demonstrating this technique and it reminded me what fun it used to be to make cards using baby wipes to make your own unique ink pads!

Grab some baby wipes and fold a couple of them in half and place them in an empty stamp container. Choose several re-inkers and squeeze out a 1/2 inch wide line of ink of the first color, apply the second color close to the first color but not overlapping (the colors will bleed and eventually touch) add the remaining colors in lines next to the other colors – you are essentially making your own rainbow pad.

Doesn’t the ink look like little fuzzy caterpillars! in the photo above – LOL!

There are many different ways to use the “ink pad” that you have just created!
The first way is to actually use it as an ink pad.
Take a bold or line stamp and stamp into the ink pad making sure to move the stamp slightly back and forth to make sure that there is no un-inked spaces on the surface of the stamp.
Here I used the FREE Textures and Frames Sale-a-bration stamp set (#156616) circle stamp in the rainbow pad created using Pacific Point (#111840), Bermuda Bay (#131156) and Granny Apple Green (#147163) re-inkers.

You can also take the baby wipes and with the ink side direct to paper, pressing firmly on the uninked side -drag the ink across the paper making a striped or other pattern on the cardstock.

Instead of applying the ink direct to paper you can use the same drag technique across the stamps as I did with the Dry Brush Background stamp (#152599).