Totally Techniques: Baby Wipe Technique

Welcome to January’s Totally Techniques International Design Team Blog Hop!  I am Lynsay Mahon, from Edmonton, Canada, and you have just arrived here from the talented Annette Elias from the Netherlands.

This month we are focusing on a technique called “Baby Wipe.” This technique creates an impromptu ink pad that creates a mottled look to the stamp.

Here’s how to accomplish this technique:

1. Choose a few colours of coordinating ink refills.
2. Put a few drops of ink refills of each colour on a folded baby wipe
3. Choose a solid stamp to ink on the baby wipe and stamp to see the mottled colour

For this month’s technique, I really wanted to use the new Occasions stamp set, Happy Tails:

As you can see, there isn’t a solid stamp for the inside of the dog shape, so what I did, was took a stamp from another set to create the background:

Then I stamped over the background with the dog outline and used the coordinating punch to get the dog shape.

Here’s the finished project:

You can see a close up of the dog:

I love this set because it looks like a Labrador!  I am a volunteer for the organization Dogs With Wings, a not-for-profit charity that trains and places assistance dogs.  The dogs each cost around $40,000 to raise and train but they sell them to the client for only $1!  I’m offering a full day craft event to fundraise for this organization on Feb. 23.  You can read more about the event at the bottom of this post!

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this technique!

Be sure to check out the rest of the blog hop – we have a talented group of demonstrators from around the world sharing their version of this technique!  Keep hopping by clicking the links below:

Order of January’s Blog Hop

Product List – Live in Canada?  Click on the links below to be transferred to my online store to shop for these, and other Stampin’ Up! products:

Happy Tails Photopolymer Bundle [150631] $41.25	Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies [148551] $48.00	Simple Stripes Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [145648] $11.50
Crushed Curry Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill [131158] $5.00	Soft Suede Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill [115663] $5.00	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill [121029] $5.00
Calypso Coral 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [122925] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Crushed Curry 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [131199] $11.50
Crumb Cake 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [120953] $11.50	Lemon Zest Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143808] $27.00	2-1/4″ (5.7 Cm) Circle Punch [143720] $24.00
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals [144108] $5.50