As you may recall from a previous post, March is national craft month. And you may also recall from several previous posts, that I love to stamp. So I thought it would be fun to try stamping with wine instead of a craft/dye ink. I had visions of stamping greatness with wine in my head. Much like the greatness achieved by Amelia Fais Harnas and her beautiful wine stain portraits made with wine.
So I hit the stamp table with two wines and high hopes tonight. Here are the two wines I used:
Our Peaceful Bend Forche Renault and a bottle of Alamos Wine called Red Blend that I picked up today at Russ & Rena's in Rolla Missouri when I made a delivery. Both were red, both were blends, both were sampled in my glass during this experiment.
I'm sorry for the photography in the rest of the post by the way. It might have been due to the sampling. :)
To make my own stamp pad, I folded up two pieces of paper towel and then poured the wine on. I choose two stamps to try this out with. A rubber stamp made by Stampin' Up that you see pictured above and a clear photopolymer stamp made by Hero Arts that I forgot to get a picture of. Darn that sampling anyways!
One thing I learned right away...in the time it took to pour the wine on the towels and take this photograph, the towels were too dry to get a proper stamp impression. If you try this at home, the towl needs to be super wet - I'd recommend pouring wine on the towel and then immediately dabbing your stamp in the wine. Have the surface that you'll be stamping on ready to go also.
Other than that, this is just about the same as stamping with other inks.
The two tags on the left were stamped using the Alamos wine while the two on the right were stamped with the Peaceful Bend wine. The leaves are the rubber stamp, and the flowers are the photopolymer stamp.
I noted no difference between stamping with the rubber vs. the photopolymer, so that's good to know.
However, the Alamos wine had more of a purple hue to the wine, and that showed up in the stamped impression. I'm not sure this picture captures it properly, but the final dried pieces were a bit brighter purple than the Peaceful Bend wine. The Peaceful Bend wine stamp was almost more like a watermark, which is cool too. But if I'm after some bolder color, an older red like the Forche might not cut it.
Overall, I have a ways to go before I achieve the greatness of wine stamping that Amelia has mastered with her wine stains. What is obvious is that if I want bright purple color, I'll need to get the deeper pigmented wines. I think next time I might try double stamping to get a darker color.
Oh who am I kidding? I'm probably just going to stick with keeping my wine in my glass and not wasting it on paper towels! It was a fun experiment though. Let me know in the comments if you have done any crafting with wine.
Happy Trills,
Katie
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