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I am trying to decide if I want to go ahead and buy a couple of color families of the reinkers...I'm thinking there are probably some very interesting/creative uses to using them besides...reinking.
Can anyone tell me if you use your reinkers in interesting/creative ways?
Polished stone, Shaving cream & marble techniques. I'm sure there are more. Shaving cream is messy but my favorite. No one can believe you made the paper.
I have heard of that, but haven't tried it. My stamping buddy and I were supposed to get together this week during the holiday to try some NEW stuff and that was on our list, but we weren't able to. Thanks for sharing your ideas. I knew guys would get my brain going!
I use them to ink up background stamps. Drop a few drops on a plastic disposable plate, brayer with the rubber brayer insert until thoroughly inked then ink up background stamp.
There's the glass tree ornaments with dazzling diamonds glitter. Really pretty!
Soap bubbles technique is cool too.....time consuming, but cool!
Creating custom spectrum pads, using your own favorite color combos.
That's all I can think of besides shaving cream, polished stone & marbling.
How do these techniques work? I am still in the process of learning (a lot more to go) and I've seen the shaving cream technique on cards, but I've never tried any of these.
I use a page protector, a Sharpie, reinkers and Glossy Cardstock. You will need two pieces of Glossy C/S to do in a page protecter. Cut your PP so that three sides are open, leave the binding part intact. With your sharpie, trace around a regular sized card front, making a nice rectangle. Open your page protector, and inside that rectangle, place 3-4 drops of three different colors of reinkers. Carefully put the page protector back together, and "smoosh" the colors together. The reason you want to be careful about laying the PP back down on top of the ink is to prevent air pockets from forming. I try to do this on top of a light piece of paper, so you can see how the tie dye will look afterwards, since you can see through the PP. Now, take your two pieces of Glossy Cardstock, place them back to back with the glossy side facing OUT. Put them right on top of that square you drew, which is now filled with ink. Close the PP carefully once again, and the glossy paper will pick the ink right up! It looks beautiful, and is simple to do. The page protecter can be easily cleaned with the Stampin Mist and a tissue or paper towel, so it's a quick and easy cleanup.
HTH!
Debbi
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I will leave the polished stone technique for someone else to explain because I haven't perfected it it. But here are the others.
Shaving Cream
Put a little mound of shaving cream (the cheaper the better) on a paper plate. Then drop a few drops of the reinker onto the shaving cream. Swirl around a little with a knife or stick. Push white paper into it & then remove. Use knife to wipe off extra shaving cream & your done! The worse part is wiping off the paper. Pretty messy. I can usually get about 5 pieces out of one plate.
Marbles
Take a empty plastic stamp holder (make sure it's big enough to hold the paper you want to marble. Then place a couple drops of reinker in it & 2 marbles. Close the lid & shake marbles around so they go all over the ink. Then put in paper & shake again. It should leave little lines all over the paper. Pretty cool.
I use a page protector, a Sharpie, reinkers and Glossy Cardstock. You will need two pieces of Glossy C/S to do in a page protecter. Cut your PP so that three sides are open, leave the binding part intact. With your sharpie, trace around a regular sized card front, making a nice rectangle. Open your page protector, and inside that rectangle, place 3-4 drops of three different colors of reinkers. Carefully put the page protector back together, and "smoosh" the colors together. The reason you want to be careful about laying the PP back down on top of the ink is to prevent air pockets from forming. I try to do this on top of a light piece of paper, so you can see how the tie dye will look afterwards, since you can see through the PP. Now, take your two pieces of Glossy Cardstock, place
Thanks, Debbi...I will enjoy trying this one.
them back to back with the glossy side facing OUT. Put them right on top of that square you drew, which is now filled with ink. Close the PP carefully once again, and the glossy paper will pick the ink right up! It looks beautiful, and is simple to do. The page protecter can be easily cleaned with the Stampin Mist and a tissue or paper towel, so it's a quick and easy cleanup.
HTH!
Debbi
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one of my favorites is the stained glass technique. here's the directions. I'll see if I can find my sample of this to post in my gallery too.
1. cut window sheet (or transparency) to size of a card front
2. stamp image with staz-on ink (I like to use black, and detailed images work best) let dry
3. turn window sheet over (be sure to have some scratch paper under this), and squirt a bunch of crystal effects onto back of window sheet, and useing a paint brush spread CE all over back of window sheet
4. now drop a drop or 2 of 2-3 colors of re-inkers onto CE (a little goes a long way so go sparingly) and using paint brush spread re-inkers all around. mixing colors a little is good too
5. take a piece of tissue paper cut to a littler bigger size than your window sheet, and crinkle it up, then smooth out.
6. place this on top of re-inkers and CE, making sure that it's stuck to the whole thing.
7. let dry, and add to your final project
this turns out sooo beautiful! hope you like it
Michelle
Reinkers...other uses besides reinking???
