gamsol magic
 

I have seen so many cards using the gamsol technique and would like to try it, but before I buy the supplies I was wondering if you can use SU whisper white paper for this, or does it ruin the paper finish like it does when you use watercolors on it.

Thanks,
sheltiemom

I use the whisper white all the time. Love it for both prismacolor pencils with OMS or gamsol and Copic markers too! :)

I also use SU whisper white all of the time with my gamsol magic ...if you can really call it magic!!!:) I've people in the US use Georgia Pacific with similiar success - which apparently is available in US Walmart's.

It REALLY does make a huge difference what paper you use, as SU WW has a bit of a coating that allows the pigment from the pencils to blend and * slide * a little on the paper. The other important factor is having decent stumps - the made in Taiwan or Creative Mark are so much better than the harder stumps - made in Japan.

The made in Taiwan stumps can be found via Whipper Snapper stamps - and the Creative Mark I have obtained through a volume purchase made by another SCSer who ocassionaly has stump shares .

Don't give up to easily - it took me a bit to get onto it, but now it's my favorite method of colouring ( of course, I can't afford Copics - so I don't know about them! )

Good luck!

Oh - make sure you stamp with stazon ink - ( maybe others will work ) stazon ink doesn't bleed like so many others when you use the gamsol...

Thanks for the information. I just sharpened the 120 Prismacolor pencils which I bought a few years ago. I want try this technique which is very popular now at my LSS. I just got some Copics which I also want to try with these pencils.

Tina R

Thank you sooo much for all of the advice!!!!! I can't afford copics either so I hope I can learn how to do this. Now I guess I will have to go ahead and break down and buy the supplies to give it a try. I like my watercolor crayons and watercolor pencils but only seem to be able to use them on watercolor paper, but sometimes I would like to be able to stamp and color images on white, that is why I was hoping the gamsol magic worked on white cardstock.

Thanks again!!!!
Mary

I use XpedX Brilliant White cardstock and it works wonderfully for this technique. I've done the gamsol technique on an offwhite cardstock that has small flecks in it and I didn't really care for the outcome.....not that it was terrible....I just didn't care for it.

I found that even StazOn thends to smear a bit. But U did find a wonderful ink that does not smear at all! It is RANGER Nick Bantock ink. I tried it and went right over the stamped image and NO smearing!!! This is no my #1 ink to use when doing this technique. Brilliance ink also works.

Here is the Ranger website for the inkpads I like to use

http://www.rangerink.com/products/pr...ickbantock.htm

I just started this last week so I'm no pro at this technique but I can say I use TBrilliance Graphite Black and then heat set it...it does not smear at all. I read it somewhere, not my idea...but thought I would share.