Dumb question....no laughing allowed
 

OK...so I know that DTP means direct to paper....but how else would your immage get on the paper if you weren't directly putting it there. I am confused!!!

LOL! You are too cute!!!

DTP to me means that you put the ink pad right on the paper to ink the paper...make sense now? ALTHO I am not an expert....

Ok. I am totally NOT laughing.... :) :p ;)


Direct to Paper refers to putting your ink pad directly on the paper, not the image. You rub/drag the ink pad along the sides to color the edging on your cs or to give a *weathered* look to your project.

oh, come on now! we are NOT supposed to laugh?
k, in all seriousness,(snicker), to qualify the above answer to your quesddnv.../v/.b,bv. tion, oops sorry, fingures slipped!

oh, what the heck was the question again?!?

































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all the saffron on the edges of the white cs is direct to paper....clear as mud??

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For an all over look, please refer to two of my cards in my gallery. I used a sponge for the background

Well...slap me upside the head and call me silly. I use that techniqe ALL the time...Except I use a sponge! I am so stooooooopid!

no, you are not stoooooooooooooopid! we stampers like to confuse people about our methods cuz then we look like geniuses! (genii?)

LOL! You are too funny Shanon!!!

I have some in my gallery too that are drug across the paper......

I've always considered DTP and sponging to be two different techniques. When you do DTP you use only the ink pad right on the paper. Sponging gives a very different, softer look.

That's what I thought too. "Direct" To Paper meaning the ink pad "directly" to the paper without use of anything else to get it there (brush, sponge, rubber, etc.). So the Spotted Background Technique would be an example of DTP.