Help Metallic Pigment

[Jackie_angels]

Need Help How do I get the metallic Pigment to stop smearing?

It's been on paper for two days now and it still smears.

Jackie

[laura6]

are you talking about a metallic Pigment Ink pad? mine smear too. Try heat-embossing/ heat-setting (just use the heat gun, no powder).... or i use metallic embossing powder. i used to think it was my Cheap-O inkpad that smeared, but i read somewhere that all Metallic pigment ink smears.
hope that helps
-laura s

[Jackie_angels]

This is the ink pad. I am trying to make wedding invites and it's no working out well.

[laura6]

try using a matte (non-glossy) paper and then heat set the ink. if that doesn't work, you may want to try embossing powder.
-laura s

[beaddict]

I've never used metallic ink without embossing powder. It really never does totally set. I inked something without embossing and a couple of months later it still smeared.

[jkstampin]

You can try a light spray of hairspray to see if that helps it set. There is also something called workable fixative made by Krylon that I have used on things such as chalks that tend to smear.

[Lynn in St. Louis]

What type of paper are you stamping your metallic pigment ink onto? Is it just regular cardstock, or vellum?

[mycraftyideas]

Metallic pigments differ from brand to brand. Encore inks smear on many surfaces and NEVER dry on vellum! =( They definitely need to be heat embossed. As for the Brilliance series from Tsukeniko (not sure abt spelling), they should dry on most surfaces with no problems. If you are stamping on a glossy surface, you might need to heat set the ink though. Hope this helps. I have only used these two types of metallic pigment inks.

[jansy]

I tried "dressing up" some holiday wrapping paper several years ago with metallic ink. Even heat-setting didn't work! It finally (after three or four days) dried. I'm sure it was the glossy paper. When I do cards with metalllics (non-embossing) I don't seem to have too many problems. Yes, it does take a while to dry...but much faster if the paper is not glossy.

[stampztoomuch]

I'd go with clear embossing powder too. The first cards I ever made were my wedding invites with metallic ink & a solid stamp ACK! (before I was a stamping nut) I don't think they ever did dry. I shudder to think what they looked like when they arrived in the mail.

Embossing should do the trick nicely. Hope it works out well for you! :O)

[patko]

I have used the brilliance metallic even on acetate and it dries really well & never smears.