Now we're ready to start printing. You'll have your ink bottle, we're going to use the plexiglass and we're gonna set up an ink station. Again, you want to have like some scrap paper because you want to keep your area very clean. So just make sure you have papers where you can be molded the excess of the print and you want to give it like a good good mix. And this is if you want to just use the color straight from the jar. You can also mix colors into a different receptacle and just create the color that you want.
So you're going to put a little bit of an inking Well, that is slightly larger than your prayer. This is basically the equivalent of a stamping block that charged reading. So now that you have your your little inkwell, you're just gonna start getting your ink into the prayer, making sure that the brayer is getting in enough so make sure you have enough ink in your well and do it in like different directions and in a spare paper, you can test how much ink you have on it before actually going into your stack. If you feel like you don't have enough, you can always put out a little more Make sure this is covered. Okay, it seems to be now pretty even when I test it over here. So I am ready to bring in my car.
Give it a little bit of pressure to apply the color. So just keep looking as to how much ink you will have on the on the staff at one time. This can repeat several times until you like the amount of things that you have in there. And again, your spare paper is really, really important here because you don't want to go right away into stamping the fabric. You want to just make a little tip on paper, apply some pressure and then see how it's printing. And based on this, you may want to add a little more or maybe even like out of different color.
Another way of applying ink is through brush. And this is also like a dental in kind of technique. You pretty much take your brush and apply directly the ink theme to it. Just make sure everything is is even. And again, always use scrap paper to make a test before going into your fabric. So this one has a little A bit of more time to it, you have to decide how much ink you want on your fabric at one time.
Before you start printing, make sure that your tea towel was like perfectly iron because you don't want like many wrinkles on it so you have like a really flat surface. So now we have our Santa is charged quitting. And we I want to make like a line where you see that design on the edge. So I'm also going to use my blog to guide me where I'm gonna place the design and taking into consideration the edge. You placed it down and then apply a little bit of pressure and density. So each time you're going to reproduce the design you want to charge your stamp with ink Make sure you don't have a lot of it set on your brain.
Another fun way to decorate the towels is to select a word that is of your liking. So remember if you're doing words to just do it but the backward image I'm repeating the steps of like charging the brayer with ink And make sure you have the correct position where you want to have it printed. Like I'm gonna be just like looking at my center lines here and apply a little bit of pressure