TPD: Soot-Stamped Halloween Flat Card

Veeeeeerrrry interesting!

Wow, 6 already watching...maybe we need a support group for pyros...

@LahDeeDah ... uhm hold many alter sacrifices lately?

LOL! Just trying to please my Halloween-loving friends. Next swap: daisies and smiley faces!

Oh how I love reading the comments. :P You guys are great.

I would love to try this. Have never seen any matte spray here though. Still not till October so I will have to look around more.

Oh My Goodness! This was a bit challenging, a whole lot messy, slightly dangerous -- and one of the coolest techniques I have tried in a long time. Took me a bit to get it down but now I plan to do several more images tomorrow (need another candle LOL). Wonderful fun!

@clillebakken89 - You can try using hairspray to seal the image, as well. Just test it on something you don't care about first to see what happens.

@dobie256 - I felt the same way when I tried this! Isn't it cool how the flame slides along the cardstock like a paintbrush? I love that!

This is so much fun! I used glossy photo paper and when the flame got to close it bubbled (and crackled and stunk up the house, hehe). Now I need to find another candle and a tombstone stamp. Oops, I didn't read the last part of the first safety precaution about putting water in the sink soooooo FYI, an icecube applied to hardened wax drippings on an enamel sink makes clean up easy peasy:)

Oh, wow! There must be a major difference in the way various papers react. The glossy cardstock I used didn't do anything nearly as exciting! :-)

just soot stamping, or is reverse soot stamping allowed too? (for that, you stamp your cardstock with clear embossing ink before doing the soot, soot, then rub all the soot off. the soot will stick in the ink. you still spray it with the fixatif after). seen here, as opposed to this. we should do one that isn't halloween too... :)

yeah, glossy cardstock is coated, and is a completely different thing than photo paper, b. the paper just doesn't work for heat (heat gunning it can be like blowing up a balloon too...lol. yes, I've tried that too).

@dreamerkins - This round is soot stamping (not reverse) with a Halloween theme. :-)

Hmmmm, got the prefect stamp in mind, just have to find glossy card stock

perfect even .... can you tell it's Fri arvo here Down Under lol

Hey everyone - As @dreamerkins mentioned above, glossy cardstock and photo paper are not the same thing. I didn't know what makes them different so I googled it and read that glossy cardstock has a coating made of clay while photo paper has a chemical finish. You can buy glossy cardstock in single sheets at many scrapbooking stores and copy centers. I also read that Joann Fabrics has it. Of course, it can be ordered online, but I assume that's the most expensive option. If you have any other ideas about where to find it, please do leave a post here.

@LahDeeDah thanks for researching the photo paper vs glossy cardstock. Tried the process again using the cardstock and it turned out much nicer, didn't stink, didn't bubble and crack:) Also, once sealed the surface was much smoother than the photo paper. Thanks again for the heads up!

Very fun technique - you never know exactly what you are going to get so each one really is one of kind!!

I didn't have a candle so I tried it with an oil burner and it worked a treat! A possible advantage to using the oil burner is that you can control the height of the flame by setting the height of the wick - that may make it a bit safer for some people! Thanks for a very cool technique - I'm in!

Good to know, @Bandkh1 Thanks for sharing that tip!