Stamping With Watercolors Tutorial

It's time for another tutorial with watercolors.... this time using stamps to make cool patterns on paper!  It's a simple project that will take you 5 minutes or less and it's fun to do with kids too.

You can use ink to make these, but watercolors give you a completely different effect.  It's much more fun  :)

Materials:

Cardstock (any color) or plain copy paper

Watercolor Paints

Paint Brush

Rubber Stamps

Step 1:  Load up your paint brush with water and paint. then "paint" the surface of the rubber stamp.  You can use one color or many colors, you can try it with lots of pigment or just a little.  Just experiment and have fun!

Here's my little guy going at it... he thought it was pretty cool :)

This is what your stamp may look like after the paint is applied...

Step 2: Place the stamp down on the paper and press lightly.

Step 3:  Lift the stamp off the paper and see the cool design it makes!

Step 4:  Repeat the previous steps, alternating colors, to fill the entire page.  You can do them in rows or all over the place in no particular order,  whatever you like.

Check out all the designs I made.. so fun!  The crazy flower one on the far left is my favorite :)