Getting White Craft Ink to dry on acetate--help!
 

I tried sponging it on the acetate with Qtip as those who have created the glass ornaments have advised. I even tried daubing it on fairly lightly, and heat setting for 2-3 min. Still smears when I try to roll up the acetate to insert it into the ornament. :( And, I get white fingerprints here and there/smudges, etc. argh.

I'm switching to white acrylic paint (have a local holiday shoebox I'm participating in TONIGHT!!!!!! :shock: ), but I would like to know what anybody's tips are for getting the white craft to dry, as for me, I'd prefer using it instead of the acrylic paint . . .

Wow! I was just about to go to my craft table and try using craft ink on window sheets, when I decided to refresh the home page and saw this topic! I'll keep checking back, because we always need good ideas for craft ink, and Sharpies end up a little cartoony looking when I use them.

I only own one Craft pad, the white one. I've been painting it on my acetate ornaments and had the same problem with smearing and finger prints so I've been embossing it with white EP.

If you paint with any other color craft ink, you could use clear EP. I LOVE the way my ornaments look with the EP. They look much more vibrant than the one I didn't emboss over.

HTH,
Merrie

white craft on acetate
 

The ornaments I made using the white craft pad only took overnight to dry. I put a very thin layer of the ink on. I put a thicker layer on one and it still hasn't dried.

How does the acrylic paint do? Does it dry fairly quickly?

My 11 year-old DD came up with this one: White Out!
We were making the ornaments and had a terrible time getting the craft pad ink to dry on the acetate when she suggested this. I was skeptical, but out of the mouths of babes...it worked. The white is very vibrant and it dries right away. It stinks a bit while you are using it, but it is worth it in the end. A firend of mine used white acrylic paint with success also.

I like the embossing idea, but doesn't the heat warp your acetate? It warped mine even when I used it from far away...

Oooooo! White Out! I am sitting just a few feet from, I kid you not, 72 unopened bottles of White Out (don't ask. . .) I wonder about tinting with reinkers?!

Well, I tried embossing it with white craft + clear EP, after stamping on HEAT RESISTANT (for photocopiers) transparency!

It worked like a charm!!!!!!!

THANK YOU, MERRIE!!!!!!!!!!!!{{{{{{{{{{{Merrie}}}}}}}}}}}

I AM going to suggest to the crowd tonight, however, that if they only have regular write-on transparencies, to try the white out tip--that's a smashing idea, too!

Are SU's window sheets heat resisitant...can you emboss on them?

EM

To my knowledge, no.

acetate
 

I thought about white out but wondered if it would dry. Thanks so much for the tip. I'll have to try it out.

I can't honestly imagine craft ink drying at all on a non-porous surface. It's not even supposed to...that's why Brilliance when it came along was such a god send...

Hugs,
Betsy

Brilliance Moonlight White works!
 

Brilliance Moonlight White works! It seemed to be taking forever to dry when I first tried it but a quick pass of my heat gun dried it quick. Be careful when inserting though. I scratched my first one when inserting into the ornament and didn't know it until it was inside! I made a short tube around the inside of the opening before slipping the next one inside to protect the acetate and ink from the rough edge of the ornament. These are SOOOO CUTE!
-MC

I know you said don't ask, but I MUST!!!!

What's the story???
LOVE the idea about tinting with reinkers! Please let us know if you try it!

I have been using craft Paint like Apple Barrel (not craft ink) applied with a cosmetic applicator (is like a Q-tip, but it has a point on one end--I found them in cosmetic section at CVS). You can find the craft paint in any color. Michaels has it for about .99 a bottle. I use the palest pink for skin tone on Santa. The craft paint dries completely in a few minutes.

I, too, use craft paints. I use the Plaid Apple Barrel Indoor/Outdoor Gloss paints. 2 oz bottles are around a dollar, not as many different shades of colors are available as regular acrylic paints, but you can mix them to your liking. Tips if you want to paint your ornaments: paint on the reverse side you stamped, layer on your colors in reverse (if layering), such as the snowflakes falling are splattered on before the blue background is painted. Let each color layer dry well before moving to the next ! Once it is totally dry and you are ready to insert, roll the acetate with the painted image to the inside so as not to scratch off any of your hard work ! Yes, this is much more time consuming (depending on the stamp image and detail you want to paint) than using markers, but the look is totally different and well worth it. I've made a dozen like this and had no problems - yet. Here's the link to my Painted Flaky Friends Ornament
http:////www.splitcoaststampers.com/...t=last1&page=4 I hope these tips helped :)

(i bought the wite-out at Office Depot a few years ago--it was being cleared out--12 bottles plus a free bonus wite-out tape dispenser for .88 (less than the cost of a regular package of the tape, which is what I wanted). i figured i would be able to donate the wite-out to my kid's elementary school, but they were not interested. turns out wite-out is sometimes abused as an inhalant.

i'm typing in lower case--"whispering"--because this is one of many embarassing overpurchases. :oops:

i tried mixing classic refill ink with my wite-out (which is not a water-based product; the formula may be different now, but i haven't bought any in the past few years). they mix, with some effort, on plastic acetate, then dry very quickly. mixing in the bottle doesn't work at all. i'll try again with craft refill.)

if anyone has been happy with lumiere on acetate, let us know!

I found a white Sharpie at Hobby Lobby and it works wonderfuly on the acetate, much better than the craft pad. I also found another white pen that dries pretty much instantly, but I can't remember the name of it off hand. (I'm at work and my pen is at home :( )

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White Galaxy Marker - found some the other day at the $1 store