Tango Swirl

This card was a recent stamp club offering. Now, before you all tell me that it’s not Tuesday, let’s pretend it is for the sake of getting a sample to you. I’m not feeling too naseous at the moment, but I don’t know how I’ll feel on Tuesday…so here you go.

This week’s technique is Shaving Cream. This card uses whisper white, chocolate chip, and tangerine tango cardstock. I also used the scallop edge punch, tangerine tango reinker, hidden garden rub-ons, and the greeting from “A Beautiful Thing”. The greeting was stamped in Chocolate Chip Craft Ink and heat set to dry.

Start by filling a dinner plate with shaving cream. **Note: Shaving Gel will NOT work in the same way.

Spread it around with a spoon or spatula to ensure your plate doesn’t have holes without cream. Next, randomly drop a few (3 or 4) drops of reinker onto the shaving cream. Take a fork and swirl it around. Then, lay your white cardstock down on the shaving cream, and press down all along it to make sure your cardstock has come into contact with the shaving cream completely. Pull up your cardstock, take a butter knife and scrape off the shaving cream, running it under hot water and swiping it dry on your arm or a towel between scrapings. When most of the shaving cream is gone, wipe your cardstock with paper towel to get rid of any traces of it.

I punched my white cardstock with our new scallop edge punch, and swiped the edges with my tangerine tango stamp pad. I used my rub-ons along the one edge. **This takes time! Shaving cream leaves a bit of film on your cardstock, so be patient and go slow with the rub-ons. It takes longer than normal!

Glue your white cardstock to the brown, and attach that to the tangerine tango card base. Stamp your greeting, and heat set. It’s important to use craft ink for this step because of the film left behind by the shaving cream, but note that it may be a bit more slippery in stamping than it usually is for that reason.

You can probably get 5 or 6 different looks from the same plate of shaving cream before either adding more reinker or changing the shaving cream completely and starting from scratch. Each card will turn out differently, the later ones more subdued than the earlier ones.

You can also experiment with different colours. I wouldn’t recommend using more than 2 colours of reinkers, though, or you end up with “muddy” results.

Have fun! Enjoy!