Soot Stamping HELP!

[mestamps]

I am getting ready to try colored soot stamping for the first time. I was wondering if anyone has used regular hair spray as the sealer instead of an actual acrylic sealer?

It will be pretty late when I get done with the stamping, and am too scared to go outside to seal them LOL!:mrgreen:

[MSBetsyZ]

It would work ok, but I often find that hairspray isn't as fine an aerosol, and I get drops or globs of it on my project. Maybe just spray it a few times first to make sure the nozzle is cleared first.

[GarnetJ]

I take my projects to the garage to spray them. Not all the way outside in the dark. I set the item on a cardboard box or sometimes amid the recycled paper, give it a quick spray, then run back inside where it's warm.

[mestamps]

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Originally Posted by GarnetJ

I take my projects to the garage to spray them. Not all the way outside in the dark. I set the item on a cardboard box or sometimes amid the recycled paper, give it a quick spray, then run back inside where it's warm.

That would work if our garage was attached! We live on an old farm, and the garage is about an 1/8th of a mile from the house... Needless to say we don't bother parking the cars in there LOL!

I actually started to spray it with the sealer, but that gave me big clumps... :( so I switched to hairspray. The hairspray isn't a very good sealer....

I'm going to try this again tomorrow when I'm not afraid of the dark LOL!

Thanks for the help!

[mestamps]

Here is my first attempt:

Gallery at Splitcoaststampers

It's still pending, but I got it in before it was officially Sunday ;)

[MSBetsyZ]

It's GORGEOUS! Too bad about the hairspray...you'd think if it worked on chalk it would work on this. I guess I'm glad I just always use real sealer, lol! So glad you decided to wait so you can go outside....that stuff really can do a number on your lungs!

[cmayk]

I've found that Tame aerosol hairspray works well for sealing things... plus it reminds me of going into the bathroom in high school and spraying my tall bangs. ;-)