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Shoji Screen Stamping
by Sharon Field

Invoke the look of Asian screens by stamping on waffle paper.
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Grid Paper or clean scrap paper to protect
your work surface
Basic Black Classic ink pad (Well Inked)
or other black dye ink
Gold waffle paper
Sticky sheet or Sizzix Adhesive Sheet
White cardstock
Rubber stamps (Stampin' Up!'s Dream
Gardens used here) NOTE: solid image
stamps work best!
Bone folder
Paper trimmer or scissors
Sponge
Heat tool (optional)
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Step 1
Protect your work surface with several layers
of paper. Unroll the waffle paper, and
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smooth/flatten enough that you can cut it
evenly.
Step 2
Use your paper trimmer or scissors to cut a
piece of Gold Waffle Paper slightly larger than
the whisper white cardstock, and smooth with
fingers to remove most (but not all) of the
wrinkles.
Examine both sides of the waffle paper to
determine shiny/dull side.
Step 3
Place the waffle paper dull side UP on your
protected work surface. Choose the image you
would like to appear in the background, ink
with Basic Black Classic Ink. Check to ensure
the entire image is covered with ink, and then
stamp onto the dull side of the gold waffle
paper.
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Step 4
Turn waffle paper over with the shiny surface
facing you. Your stamped image should be
visible through the waffle paper.
Step 5
Apply Basic Black Classic Ink to your
secondary image. Check to ensure even
coverage of ink on the image surface. Keeping
mind that you will be trimming some of the
excess or overage from the gold waffle paper,
stamp the perimeter of the gold waffle paper,
and/or slightly off the prior stamped image.
Set aside to dry.
NOTE:
If you are doing perimeter stamping, you may
want to turn the image back over to the other
side and use the same stamp to ink along the
perimeter to provide more depth.
Step 6
Cut a piece of Sticky Sheet or Sizzix Adhesive
Sheet to the same size as your white card
stock base.
Use the bone folder to burnish the surface of
the sheet. Burnishing will ensure the adhesive
stays with the card stock and not with the
protective sheet. Carefully remove one
protective layer.
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Step 7
Align sticky sheet with the white card stock
base, attaching one to the other. Use a bone
folder to burnish the remaining protective
layer, and then remove the protective layer.
With the stamped waffle paper shiny side
DOWN, attach to the sticky side of the coated
card stock to the dull side of the waffle paper.
Step 8
DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOUR INK IS TOTALLY
DRY, then use the bone folder and long strokes
to smooth out any wrinkles on top of the waffle
paper. If your ink is not dry, the stamped
images will smear. This step removes any
bubbles and gives your stamped image a silk-
screen effect.
Trim away excess gold waffle paper using a
paper trimmer, or scissors.
Ink sponge with Basic Black Classic Ink, and
lightly thump along all edges of the stamped
cardstock/waffle paper piece.
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Step 9
Finish your card.
Side view.
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