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You will need :

• 4 pieces of paper in different sizes, hand-printed with linoprint colours (brayed with a roller on a gelatin plate and marked with stencils or found objects)
• Schmincke aqua LINOPRINT colours of your choice and ivory black (19735)
• Schmincke AERO COLOR^® Professional Black (28702) and one colour of your choice, here Cadmium orange tone (28204)
• Schmincke AERO COLOR^® Professional liner n°1
• Thin string
• Scrap of tarlatan and handwritten paper
• Cutting and tracing material (mat, ruler, scissors, cutter knife, pencil, tracing paper, blotting paper)
• Paper glue
• A4 drawing paper
• Stamp with alphabet letters

Step 1 and 2:

Step 3 and 4:

Fill up the AERO COLOR^® Professional liner with AERO COLOR^® Professional black. Shake it well and use it on a scrap of paper until you get a perfect line. Then use it to trace the design and doodle it. Dye the scrap of tarlatan with AERO COLOR^® Professional ink (here Cadmium orange tone) and let it dry.

Step 5 and 6:

Glue the different papers slightly on top of each other starting on the right side of the design. Glue the piece of tarlatan on top of the papers.

Step 7 and 8:

Using a gelatin plate, a brayer and aqua LINOPRINT Ivory black, dye the string until it is completely black. Carefully lay the string onto the right side of the design making loops. Then press it onto the ground with a piece of blotting paper.

Step 9 and 10:

Take off the string carefully and let the print dry thoroughly. Ink the stamp with black aqua Linoprint colour and print the words  » in love « .