Pick of the Week ~ Retiform Stamping Technique

This week is my turn to do the Pick of the Week here at The House That Stamps Built.

I am doing an OLD technique, but one that I have always enjoyed doing - Retiform design. Below are the supplies:

Stamps of the same subject - (for mine I choose to do “sewing”. I used 3 colors of distress inks, sponge daubers for each color, layering card stock and base card stock. And scrap paper or post-it notes, copy paper works well also, better than a piece of card stock.

I choose to go with green as my first color. Mask off a section or corner of your white/layering card stock. If you use a post-it note you don’t need any re-positionable glue or tape to hold it in place. Starting at the edge, sponge the first color - leaving some light or white space is fine. I did this in both corners.

Mask off the other corners with either post-it note or copy paper.

I sponged in my blue in opposite corners - again leaving some lighter spaces.

For the center of my project I used a tan/brown color masking off each corner as I sponged in the middle.

Stamp your images in the sectioned colored areas. For this step I used:
9307-L Dress Form, 9314-E Sew Special, and 9318-B Spool of Thread.

I thought the button image went well with this collage so I used:
4126-G Cute as a button in which I used the sentiment and button into two stamps.

I had some tiny buttons which I used for embellishments and a piece of brown twine tied around the top of the card.

Hope you give this a try soon. There really is no right or wrong way to do technique - just let your imagination take over.

~ Shirley

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