Top Tip Tuesday Two Step Stamping - #176

When I first put a call out for requests for Tips, one of my lovely customers asked for some help with 2 Step Stamps. I suddenly realised that although I have shown you how to use them in a number of videos, I have not actually gone through my thought process as a 'Top Tip', that is being rectified today.

Instead of this, with 'ghosting' at the bottom

The first thing to understand is that there are two styles of 2 Step Stamps. Those that are an outline and a filler, such as the Hug in a Mug or Merry Patterns sets, and what I think of as 'true' 2 step stamps where you are building up layers of colour to provide the final image, such as Baby Bear and Fabulous Flamingo; it is these latter ones that I am looking at.

Get this perfect image

My absolute Top Tip is that, whatever the packaging may suggest, the order you should stamp these in is from darkest colour to lightest. There are two reasons, firstly by doing this, it softens the edges of the darker ink, which give a smoother finish to the final look, but more importantly, it means that you can actually see where you are stamping. Trying to line up a lighter image with a darker image is way easier than trying to see a light image through a stamp inked up with a dark colour.

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