| Chances are your craft room or child's play | | | | cellophane. Proceed to stamp your project |
| area has a handful of colorful markers. Since | | | | with this watercolor-crackled look!4. |
| markers are available in so many different | | | | Embossing Powder Power! Gently dust a piece |
| colors and often come packaged in | | | | of vellum with corn starch. Using embossing |
| coordinating shades, markers are the perfect | | | | ink, stamp the vellum and cover with your |
| mediums to stretch your color options without | | | | choice of embossing powder. Using a heat |
| breaking the bank. Using markers with rubber | | | | tool, melt the embossing powder. Take a |
| stamps is a perfect way to make classy paper | | | | handful of similar colored markers and draw |
| craft projects and bright vibrant | | | | various sized triangles in a random pattern |
| scrapbooking pages. Here are five great tips | | | | on the reverse side of the stamped vellum. |
| for getting the most from your markers and | | | | Color in the triangles with the markers in a |
| rubber stamps and making marker magic.1. Mark | | | | random color pattern. Gently spray the |
| up those ink jet transparencies! Using any | | | | surface with a light water mist and allow to |
| ink jet transparency, ink the rubber stamp | | | | dry. Using spray-on adhesive, lightly set the |
| for your project with the desired marker | | | | ink on the reverse side and cut out around |
| color and stamp the print side of the | | | | the embossed image. Attach to your next |
| transparency. The glue on the ink jet | | | | project for an amazing stained glass raised |
| transparency will bond the marker ink to the | | | | vellum embellishment!5. Shade These Threads! |
| transparency film and will dry in a short | | | | Markers are the perfect mediums for coloring |
| period of time. You can then cut around the | | | | in the non inked areas of a stamped fabric |
| stamped image and mount on your project!2. | | | | image. Simply start by stamping the fabric |
| Color Metal! Using any silver brads, paper | | | | with the desired color dye-based ink pad. |
| clips, or any other silver metal | | | | Allow to dry. Using markers, color in all |
| embellishments, color the metal with the | | | | remaining areas accordingly. To soften the |
| marker of choice. If you are using | | | | marker lines, gently spray the fabric with |
| water-based markers, bond the ink to the | | | | water. You can dry the fabric with a hair |
| metal with a light mist of hair spray or | | | | dryer or allow to dry in the air. Cut out |
| acrylic spray-on glue and allow to dry. This | | | | your fabric and place on the desired |
| technique will allow you to make many | | | | project!Using these simple marker techniques |
| different custom colored metal embellishments | | | | is a fantastic way to gather a large variety |
| coordinated with your current project.3. | | | | of colors and inexpensively fill in the color |
| Cellophane Crackle Color! Take a piece of | | | | wheel areas for which you have no stamp pads. |
| clear cellophane and lay it on a flat | | | | Markers are a wonderful solution for vibrant |
| surface. Tape the edges to hold the | | | | colors on a wide variety of surfaces. Go |
| cellophane in one place. Using a watermark | | | | ahead, try those markers and stamps out |
| stamp pad, stamp the surface of the | | | | today!Kathy Williams loves rubber stamps |
| cellophane the desired size according to the | | | | |
| stamp you will be using. Using your markers, | | | | and scrapbooking. When she is not working on |
| color the stamped cellophane, blending the | | | | her online rubber stamping store,Rubber |
| colors with q-tips, brushes, or light mists | | | | Stamping Fun, she enjoys writing stamping and |
| of water. Taking your rubber stamp, cover the | | | | scrapbooking articles and working with all of |
| surface by gently tapping the stamp to the | | | | her rubber stamp projects! |