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I am in the process of organizing my stamp room a little bit (it needs a LOT of work). Anyway, I am separating all my prima flowers into colors, and I am finding there are many colors of primas that I DON'T like. Does anyone have an idea for what I can do with the colors I don't like? Does anyone else have this dilemma? It seems like such a waste to buy a bottle when I only like one or two colors it. So many of the colors DON'T match my SU paper, so I don't see myself ever using some of them.....please help!
You could dye them with ink refills to coordinate with the paper. put some water in a small cup, add several drops of reinker and completely submerge them for a while, so they get completely dyed.
Expeirament with your reinker/water ratio with different colors.
I find that they lose their shape when you wet them that much. I'd paint them using re-inkers and a watercolor brush. I've also used chalks to change the colors on them and it works well, although it's time-consuming.[IMG]//www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gif[/IMG]
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I've seen some really cute examples of stamping backgrounds on the flower (I've done French Script, Canvas, and Linen) -- maybe that could help change it to a color that is less "unlikeable!"
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I have a stick stamp (Stamps by Judith) called "bold dots." Lots of times I use this stamp to stamp the little dots in the middle of my prima in a great complimentary color that helps me better like colors that I'm not overall crazy about. You could do this with markers too....it is a little triangle of three dots and it gives the flowers a nice dimension as well.
This is messy....but I just rubbed the flower over the classic ink pad a few times. I don't know how well it would work with a squishy craft pad...but with the classic pad it worked great and the color wasn't just solid and plain...it was kinda multi-hued. Know what I mean?
I'd be careful of dying them. I know we have been told we can dye the ribbon etc. but I dyed some white grosgrain ribbon and used it at a stamp club and one person accidentally got hers wet in a couple of small areas and it came right off and looked terrible.
How 'bout hosting a Prima swap in the Swaps forum? I don't know how much control you'd have over what colours you get, but you could do a series of smaller swaps where you name specific colours you are looking for. I've seen some swaps like this.
I decided that there were a lot of colors that didn't go well with what I was doing either. :( I pushed them into my ink pad of the color I wanted. It dyed it nicely and I didn't have to worry about getting it too wet or a right color combo.
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