This afternoon I thought I'd have a little play with gesso on some left over die cut shapes. I spread some white gesso on the carinkin with an old credit card, not to thick and not worrying to much about it being perfectly smooth, and left if to dry al little bit, probably only for 10min as I'm impatient!
I then spritzed some stamps with water before pressing them into the gesso, the water means the stamps release from the gesso easier (or at least thats the idea!). For the square piece of card I spritzed it with water with some perfect pearls mixed in but this didn't really show as the stamp lifts off the gesso rather than leaving ink behind.
The oval piece looks ok but I think to square one has a bit too much gesso or I should have left if a bit longer as the stamping came out a bit splodgy.
I then tried stamping on the plain part of the oval card with the gesso which I am really pleased with, to do it I just smooshed some gesso on my craft sheet (using the trusty credit card) and then 'inked' the stamp from this. I haven't had time to try inking over all of this but will report back when I do.
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