Hey ladies! I'm just wondering how you all get dark edges on paper, such as:



TIA!

-Lucky

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Christine's Corner



Mom to Matt, 3 years and Catie, 7 months!

You can touch an ink pad to the edge of the paper to create the dark effect.

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I use a sponge. "Sponging" Push the spnge onto the ink pad the brush it off the sides of the paper/project.

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Just any kind of sponge? Or is there some kind of craft sponge? (yeah, I know, I'm a dork).

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Mom to Matt, 3 years and Catie, 7 months!

I have also done it using a damp sponge and a marker when I didn't have the color of ink pad that I wanted. The dampness of the sponge helped the ink from the marker spread.

amy

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Amy

I've used sponges, but I LOVE my stipple brush. I just tap my bristles against the stamp pad and then tap it around the edges of my paper.

A small piece of any type of sponge should work, Lucky Mom. Just experiment and have fun with it!

Yay! Thanks so much everybody! Much appreciated!

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Mom to Matt, 3 years and Catie, 7 months!

If you want the dark edges around something the easy way to do it is to take the object that you want to darken and scrape the edges of it along a stamp pad of the color that you want. It is a quick easy way to give it some color.