There are so many brilliant colors of them. Begging to be used on your projects but, which one for which project?
There are some basic rules of thumb to use when picking an ink to use. Here at BusyBee Scrapbooking you will find Dye Ink pads and Pigment Ink Pads as well as a few specialty pads.
Dye Inks are the 'all purpose' ink pad. Dye Inks are fast drying because they soak in and 'dye' the fibers of the paper that you have stamped or inked the edges of.
If used on a coated surface or non porous surface, they may need to be heat set so they don't smear.
Summer used the Nick Bantock dye ink pads for her stamping. Something else Summer did that many of us have forgotten about, she used her foam stamps. Foam stamps make a nice crisp image when stamped with inks.
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Alissa used the Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink pads, which are also a dye ink, to distress her page and cardstock stickers to match. When inking on a cardstock sticker, you may need to sand them 1st to remove any coating on them.
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On Kimber's project, she used the Tim Holtz Distress Ink pads to stamp on metal. After stamping her images she heat set them with a heat gun to make sure they dried quickly and thoroughly.
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| Pigment Inks are made of a thicker ink that is meant to lay on the surface and not soak into the fibers. Because of this, pigment inks take longer to dry and may need to be heat set even on uncoated surfaces such as cardstock. |
| Because of the slow dry time, pigment inks are great for heat embossing. Kim used this technique on her page. She stamped with the Doodlebug Designs Pigment ink and then covered the image with clear embossing power. She heats the powder and the ink until the power was melted and the image was dry. This gives a really fun raised design and adds texture to your projects. Notice that Kim also inked her chipboard title and heat embossed that as well for a smooth, shiny surface. |
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| Pigment inks are NOT meant to be used on coated surfaces or non-porous surfaces. They will not dry even when heat set. You may have some success on these surfaces if you use the heat embossing technique. |
| Another fun Ink that BusyBee carries is Alcohol Inks by Ranger. These inks are fun to 'dye' glossy surfaces. Cyndi used them on the clear acrylic elements on her page. All you have to do is drop a few drops on the surface and then a bit of the blending solution. Take a piece of felt and blend it into a gorgeous color. Alcohol inks have endless possibilities. Mixing the different colors in different amounts will always result in a different color. |
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