Hello there, Michelle here with another edition of Terrific Tags with Michelle. Today I have a fun technique to share – silhouette stamping. This technique is great for both large and small stamps, but ideally you would want solid ones. You can use outline stamps, but you would need to fill in the gaps with pen to achieve the the look of a silhoutte.

Creating the Base
To start with, I created the base for the silhouette stamping to be on. I took two of the label dies from the Creative Labels Die Set and die cut them each twice from white cardstock.

To make them into tags, I took the hole die from Labels & Tags 1 Die Set and placed it towards the top of the labels. I ran it through my die cutting machine to cut the hole and instantly, the labels then became tags!

I am creating tags today for my project, but silhoutte stamping can be used on any project – cards, tags, scrapbook pages, art journalling. The list is endless!

Silhouette Stamping
I took the leaf stamps from the Creative Labels Stamp Set and stamped them onto the tags using Obsidian Pigment Ink. I did need to stamp these multiple times (one layer on top of another) to get a solid silhouette.

I really love how the silhouettes look on top of the colorful ink blended backgrounds. It really makes them both pop – both the ink blending and the silhouettes!

Silhouette stamping can be done with different colors of inks but you would want a dark color – dark puple would have worked for the pink-purple tag nicely, but I really love the contrast of the black ink.