We all know ink pads are for stamping out your stamps but you can also use them for so many other techniques, like actually coloring in your stamped images with them. Simon Hurley is sharing 3 different ways to color … Read More...
Emboss with Distress Oxide Inks
Distress Oxide Inks are great for so many inking and stamping techniques including heat embossing. They stay wet long enough to add embossing powder and once embossed have a nice texture and depth of color. Julie used them to emboss … Read More...
Stamp Transfer onto a Pencil Bag
Nicole has a neat way to add your stamped and colored images onto a canvas pencil bag. She first used special ink and markers
to stamp and color her design onto copy paper then transferred it onto the bag using … Read More...
Ink Smooshing Technique w/ a Block
I love the ink smooshing technique, it’s a fun and easy way to add color to your card backgrounds. Normally you get a random pattern with this technique but Mindy used a large clear stamping block which have her a … Read More...
Floral Card with Multiple Ink Techniques
Nicole used Versacolor inks with several different techniques to make this lovely floral card. She used them for stenciling, coloring in her stamped images, traditional stamping and splattering. What a great way to show so many uses with just one … Read More...
Card Making – Stenciled Birthday Card
Stenciling is a great way to add some pizzazz to your card backgrounds. Ilina used several colors of ink pads with blending brushes over her stencil for a colorful birthday card background. I love the bright Neon colors from Hero … Read More...
Using Water Reactive Inks 3 Ways
Using Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir I created this fun winter Yeti Card. These versatile inks can be used for lots of different stamping and coloring techniques. If you missed my review on them last week be sure to … Read More...
Review: Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir
The Water-Reactive Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir are fun inks that, you guessed it, react with water! With these slow drying dye based ink pads you can get trendy looks like distress, ink splatters, ink blending and you can even … Read More...
Create Custom Ink Colors
Laurie has a fantastic tip to get more from your ink pad colors. She creates her own custom colors by stamping two colors over top of each other for a totally new shade. She stamps the lighter shade then stamps … Read More...
Honey Bear Card with Opaque Pigment Inks
Last week I posted a review on the brand new Harmony Opaque Pigment Ink Pads from Spectrum Noir, click here if you missed it. I decided to film a tutorial for making the Honey Bear Card I shared so … Read More...
Hero Hues Inks 10 Ways
Hero Arts has recently introduced their new Hero Hues ink pads. These inks react with water and are blendable so you can achieve trendy ink blended backgrounds, splashy watercolor looks and more. Carrisa with Ellen Hutson has 10 different way … Read More...
How to Watercolor with Ink Pads
Want the trendy watercolor look but don’t have any watercolors? No problem, use your dye based ink pads instead. I’ll show you how to watercolor with the Stampin’ Up Classic Ink Pads from Stampin Up using the new Free as … Read More...
Watercolor Lighthouse Card with New Inks
The Hero Hues Reactive Ink Pads from Hero Arts react with water so there all sorts of fun techniques you can do with them. Emily smeared the ink pads onto a non-porous surface and used a wet paint brush to … Read More...
Ink Blending: Distress vs Oxide Inks
Distress Ink from Tim Holtz have been out quite a while now and have become a stamping staple in most craft rooms. We also now have Distress Oxide Inks and they have quickly become just as, if not more popular, … Read More...
Distress Inks 5 Ways
Distress Ink pads are great for ink blending, watercolor, backgrounds, adding color, direct stamping, smooshing and more. Jessica Frost-Ballas shares 5 different ways you can use Distress Inks on your cards.
Visit the Simon Says Stamp blog for more info.… Read More...
8 Ways to Color Stamps
There are many ways to add color to your stamping. There are markers, pencils, ink pads, embossing powders and more. If you’re new to stamping or a seasoned stamper looking to get out of your “go to” coloring mediums check … Read More...
Customized Rainbow Stamped Card
Dawn created this bright and colorful rainbow card by customising her colors, using a blank Kaleidacolor ink pad adding ink refills of her choice and using matching markers to color in the die cut text. And she’s got a … Read More...
Tips for using Mini Ink Pad Cubes
Mini ink pad cubes are a great way to try new ink colors or brands without investing in a large pad, they take up less storage space and there are lots of cool stamping technique you can do with them. … Read More...
Tutorial: Blue Bird and Robin Card
I’m so ready for Spring! I think if I keep making cards with a Spring theme then maybe Spring will hurry up and get here? I made this sweet card with a blue bird and robin with an ink blended … Read More...
Technique: Coloring with Ink Pads and a Blender Pen
If you’re not familiar with a Bender Pen they are a pretty handy item to have in your stamping stash. It’s like a colorless marker that you can use to blend together colored markers but you can also use them … Read More...