Some more smooshy backgrounds today, well three of them to be precise, each more or less the same or as near as I could get! I wanted to experiment with different inks on the Steampunk Angel stamp from the same Viva Décor set as the Santa airship sleigh I featured the other day. They are silicon stamps rather than polymer and can be difficult to ink up.
So having made the backgrounds with smooshed distress inks and a background stamp from Lili of the Valley, I stamped each one with the angel and the phrase, also a sentiment from Personal Impressions.
From left to right:
Distress ink, in Aged Mahogany
Versafine, in Crimson Red
Wendy Vecchi archival ink, in Plum
Of the three, the versafine has picked up the detail best, though it is a lot paler than I anticipated, I think perhaps it needs replacing! The archival ink comes a close second and the distress ink is a little ...... well ...... distressed :-) Which is to be expected and it's not a bad result for this kind of collage. Incidentally the sentiment stamp comes out well in all three, because it is polymer, not silicon.
I am now wishing I had made them as Christmas cards rather than birthday, as I don't know how I can
Versafine is great for picking up detail but the pad does need re-inking every now and then. I have very few re-inkers - Versafine onyx black, Stazon black and Distress tea dye. The other types of ink pad seem to work ok although I've had them for years.
ReplyDeleteI like the middle best to but as you say its a lot paler - I do buy reinkers but sometimes i just buy a new pad. I have a blog question: How do you get the line though the words that you have typed ( to cross out)?
ReplyDeleteIn the part of blogger where you actually type your post, there is a toolbar with buttons for italic, bold, underline and strike through. The symbol is a small ABC with a line through, easy to miss if you don't know what it is :-)
DeleteThank you xxx
DeleteI'm loving your Steampunk cards, Wendy. :)
ReplyDeleteSue x
These are fab - think I like the end one (plum) the best
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