Category Archives: INSPIRATION

Beginner Guide: Memento Dye verses Memento Luxe Pigment Ink

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Beginner Guide: Memento Dye verses Memento Luxe Pigment Ink

Lisa shares a quick comparison between Memento Dye Inks and Memento Luxe inks. Stamping, water coloring, and stenciling between dye inks and pigment inks can produce different results. Learn some beginner basics to understand which inks are best for your projects.

 

 

 

 

Other
  • Strathmore – 300 Series Bristol Board Pads | BLICK Art Materials
  • Arches Watercolor Paper Pad – 140 lbs, Cold Press, 9″x12″
  • Neenah Classic Crest – 80lb/216 GSM, Solar White, 97 Bright,
  • Neenah Classic Crest Cover Solar White – 110# 8-1/2×11 250/pkg

Retro Floral Card Using Various VersaColor Ink Techniques

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by Nicole Watt

Versacolor ink to make a card

Join Nicole as she creates a retro-looking floral card using VersaColor inks. She’ll show you a few different ways you can use this versatile water-based pigment ink to create different effects.

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 20 minutes

Directions

Supplies

Imagine
  • VersaColor – Peony, Opera Pink, Pink, Lime, Cyan, Lapis Lazuli, Mountain Lake, Black

Other

  • Bottle Up Stamp Set (The Greetery)
  • New Beginnings Stamp Set (Altenew)
  • Bursting Dahlia Stencil (Altenew)

A Gift for Someone Special – Create a Chipboard Pendant with StazOn

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by Lori Warren

A Gift for Someone Special – Create a Chipboard Pendant with StazOn. A beautiful teal and blue jewelry piece that features a paintbrush image and reads "create".

This mixed media project is a great example of how you can use different inks and mediums to create a piece full of texture and color. It’s a step by step layering technique to add depth and interest to mixed media artwork.

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 30 minutes

Directions

Written Instructions:

  1. Cut chipboard into a pendant shape and punch a hole at the top. Place a piece of paper under the book cover to protect the pages below.
  2. Cover the front and back of the chipboard piece with white gesso.
  3. Cover the front and back of chipboard piece with white gesso.
  4. Stamp chipboard pendant with VersaFine CLAIR.
  5. Cover pendant with a stencil and apply Creative Artist Medium – Clear.
  6. Stamp brush onto watercolor paper with StazOn Pigment Ink – Piano Black.
  7. Add color to the tip of a brush with StazOn Pigment –Peacock Feathers.
  8. Sponge StazOn Pigment onto Pendant to highlight stencil pattern.  Adhere stamp brush image.
  9. Highlight elements of the pendant with ALL PURPOSE INK – Frost White (using a Doodlestix)
  10. Apply splatters in ALL PURPOSE INK – Tropical Lagoon.
  11. Cover element with GlazOn – Slight Gloss Finish.
  12. Add MBOSS Powder to pendant while GlazOn is still wet.  Heat set.  Round corners of the pendant.
  13. Edge pendant with StazOn Pigment Ink – Piano Black.
  14. Adhere sticker saying.
  15. Use the Waffle Flower – Clear Dies and Combo Swatch Tag Die to record color scheme for this project.

Supplies

Imagine

• All-Purpose Ink – Vegas Gold, Tropical Lagoon, Frost White

• Creative Medium

• Mboss Embossing Powder

• Sheer Shimmer Spray – Sparkle

Beginner Guide: Intro to Memento Inks

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by Lisa Mensing

In this video, Lisa is focusing on the Memento Ink Line by demonstrating a few techniques and sharing tips and tricks throughout the video.

Skill: Beginner
Time: varies

Directions

Other 

• Strathmore 300 Series Bristol Board Pads 

• Amazon.com: Arches Watercolor Paper Pad, 140 lbs, Cold Press, 9″x12″

• Amazon.com: Neenah Classic Crest, 80lb/216 GSM, Solar White, 97 Bright

• Neenah Classic Crest Cover Solar White 110# 8-1/2×11 250/pkg

• Circles, Circles, Circles Clear Stamps | Whimsy Stamps

• *Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Day stamp set

• Polka Dot Background | Set of 4 Stencils – Honey Bee Stamps

• Bee Bold Alphabet | Honey Cuts – Honey Bee Stamps

 

Layering with Different Ink Applications & Techniques for an Easter Card

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by Lori Warren

Layering your ink with different applications and techniques is a great way to create and interesting and beautiful card.  This card features ink application through a stencil, repeat stamping with color, single stamping in black, as well as a bit of water coloring. 

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 15 minutes

Directions

Supplies

Imagine
Other
  • Cardstock
  • Easter theme stamp set
  • Stencil
  • Ribbon

Hope & Strength Guest Artists

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In March, we posted a Call for Art with the theme Hope & Strength to reflect the current times we are facing with the Coronavirus.

Here are two artists who submitted beautiful work!

Sending You Hugs by Rebecca Goodwin

I hope you are all well. These postcards were created so that our family could send them to loved ones we know could use a little cheering up. We used cereal boxes from the recycling bin, acrylic paint, and StazOn ink. I hope they may inspire others to use materials they may already have in their home to send a quick note to their loved ones as well.

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Stronger Together by Annie Williams

I stamped the floral image onto Strathmore Bristol smooth paper with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink and colored it with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens. Once dry, I stamp the sentiment beneath the floral bunch in Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink. This was mounted using foam adhesive onto a background created by stamping blue cardstock with leafy branch line art images using Platinum Planet Brilliance Ink.

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