S U P P L I E S
Color Wash Dyes  **  NonStick Craft Sheet to work on  **  Empty spray bottle so you can create your own mixes by combining colors and/or mixing them with water  **  Stencils from The Crafter's Workshop  **  B Line Designs stamps - I used the Diamond Bar, Small Ironworks, a text stamp, and the Spotted Bird  ** A Spouncer to apply Color Wash to your stamp - large or small  **   Claudine Hellmuth Foam Stamps  **  Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium - you can use either matte or gloss  **  Ranger's Cut n Dry Pen Nibs  **  StazOn Ink for stamping  **  Disposable palette

Diluted Wild Plum sprayed over the Numbers Collage stencil from The Crafter's Workshop.  If you overspray, as I did around that large number 3 at the very top, the liquid will creep under the stencil and you won't see crisp lines.  Of course that can be a design element if you prefer softer, less distinct patterning!

Lots of interesting ways to use stencils with Color Wash.

Color Wash is heavily pigmented and this page was created using color straight from the bottle.  Tone things down by mixing a color with water in a spray bottle.  You can use the same technique as I demoed in the video, where you wet the page first, then spray the color on.  The end result will be lighter and more pastel.  You can control that end result by either mixing your color with a lot of water or less, for much more of a pastel look.

B Line's Small Ironworks stamp and Diamond Bar.  When I inked them I used diluted Stream and Lettuce Color Wash.  Tap the first color on with the spouncer, then pick up some of the second color and tap it on, beginning at the opposite end.  The colors will blend where they overlap in the middle.

Same process, but on a text stamp, using three colors.  B Line has French Script and French Correspondence and either work for this technique.  I'm very fond of watercolor stamping and think it creates a neat look.

There are so many things you can do with Color Wash... Using gel medium as a resist with a stamp, then painting it over the dried stamped image makes for a cool look.  Add a bird, rubber stamped as though it were perched on top of the tree and you've got the beginning of a nice piece.  This stamp is part of Claudine Hellmuth's Nature Foam stamp set.

Combine Ranger's pen nibs and Color Wash and you can ink with them just as I did with this little B Line stamp called "Spotted Bird".  I think this technique holds all sorts of promise.  You can use the color as is from the bottle, mix your own custom color on a palette, or dip the nibs into more than one color and mix right as you apply it to the page.  Be sure to use a permanent ink like StazOn to stamp the image.  Otherwise the outline will bleed as you're applying the Color Wash with the nibs.