| Brayer: |
a stamping tool which looks like a small rubber rolling pin with a handle or a roller paint brush. Often used with a linoleum block print, stampers use with unblocked stamps, smoothing paper, and large stamps to get an even print. |
| Brush Markers: |
Marking pens with long broad base/narrow tip that can be used like a paint brush to color in stamped areas in a design. Water-based. Can also be used directly on a stamp. |
| Coated Paper: |
papers with a finish, glossy or matte. Accepts most inks, markers, and colored pencil, but pigment ink must be embossed. |
| Dye Ink: |
water-based and washable, but permanent once stamped onto paper. Stamps well, dries quickly, but will fade over time. |
| Embossing: |
Technique of using stamp, slow drying ink, embossing powder, and heat source to create a raised surface and stamp design on paper, ribbon, terra cotta, wood, and other stampable surfaces. |
| Embossing Ink: |
very wet, slow drying clear or tinted ink/fluid used as the medium that holds the stamped image as embossing powder is applied to surface. |
| Embossing Powder: |
a fine grained substance that will melt when heat is applied to it, the powder when melt leaves a raised design. |
| First Generation Stamping: |
first impression made with a stamp after inking. |
| Heat Source: |
needed to melt embossing powders and must be at least 250 degrees. Stampers use high watt light bulbs, stove top burners, ovens, and heat guns. |
| Heat gun: |
also referred to as heat tool; looks much like a blow drier, but much hotter heating element. |
| Huffing: |
placing a stamp close to your mouth and breathing on it to re-wet the ink |
| Juicy Image: |
using too much ink on stamp and image has too much ink on lines. |
| Mail Art: |
Hand designed, stamped postcards and envelopes made as communication or design specifically to be mailed to friends, fellow stampers, and in round robing, and swaps. |
| Overstamping: |
To stamp another stamp wholly or in part over another image. |
| Permanent Ink: |
either water soluble or solvent soluble inks that will not fade with time or light.. Solvent based inks dry by evaporation rather than absorption. |
| Pigment Ink: |
thicker, richer, and highly fade resistant type of ink vs. dye inks. Slow drying so works as a perfect embossing ink. |
| Rainbow Stamp Pad: |
usually has three or more colors on the same ink pad, more recently the pads have been made in separate, removable sections. |
| Second Generation: |
third generation and so on; succeeding stamped images after the First generation stamped image is completed. Gives unique effects to stamped work. |
| Sparkle: |
as in add the sparkle; using glitter, mylars, and other supplies to add “sparkle,” color, and glitz to stamped piece. |
| Uncoated Paper: |
papers with a higher absorbency rate that coated papers and easier to use with most inks, markers, watercolors, and colored pencils. |
