Kymber's thread about the craft spots motivated me to open each and every one of my spots to make sure they are all good (they are).
I am a card maker, not a scrapper, so I never had any intentions of getting any other craft pads but the white and vanilla, but when the spots came out, I figured it might be good for my business to get them. I bought a couple sets in July and the last two just this past week.
I never really intended on using them much in my card-making, but while I was testing them all out this evening, I noticed that they dry much faster than I thought they would. Slow drying time was, in my mind, more of a drawback than anything else, with the exception of using them for embossing. But now I know that they are a feasible ink to use on paper and don't take so long to dry that I wouldn't ever use them to make cards.
I also really like the fact that the light colors will show up AS COLOR on darker cardstock. Now I can stamp yellow on my Night of Navy if I want to!
And now I can play around with embossing in lots of different colors. I've got a gifts class coming up - one of the projects is a candy dish made from terra cotta pots and I embossed blue snowflakes on it... it's beautiful. Couldn't have done it without the craft inks!
And a really big plus - the Bashful Blue craft ink really IS Bashful Blue!
Thoughts about the Craft pads
