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This award winning software will help you create beautiful albums, projects, and custom gifts in a matter of minutes.

 

What's New in MyMemories Suite?

Completely Redesigned Interface.

	New Content for Version 5:      12 Designer Templates including 241 Backgrounds      952 Embellishments and 540 Monograms!
	Quickly move objects up and down using Layers Palette
	Double Page Spread or single page view options for your workspace
	Pull on page Guides from ruler
	Transparent Background option for PNG Export
	Recolor Embellishments and Backgrounds All New Color Palette. Featuring Color Combos!
	Browse into iPhoto with Gallery
	Browse All Subcategories at the same time or select subfolders to see smaller groups
	Project List will display the name of all files used to create your project
	Create your own Custom Background Categories and stay organized

 

 MyMemories Suite 5 Feature List

MyMemories Suite 5 scrapbooking software provides the design tools that will help you to build entire albums effortlessly using the many installed templates, or starting your own pages from scratch. This user-friendly software is great for beginners and design pros alike.

	Creating your project Use one of the large selection of designer templates to jump start your project or start from scratch to make your exactly the way you want it.
	Gallery Drag and drop photos and embellishments easily using the gallery.
	Project Sizes Custom Canvas Sizes to fit your project needs.
	Search Use the Global search to quickly find embellishments, backgrounds, shapes and imprints installed in the software.
	Backgrounds Use papers installed in the software or browse for other content on your computer. With the “Apply to All” feature the software will automatically add the same background paper or color to all of your pages.
	Embellishments Use elements installed in the software or browse for other content on your computer. Add a drop shadow or change the color of your page elements. You can also resize, mirror, flip and rotate them individually or as a group.
	Photos Edit your photos with Crop, Flip, Mirror, Color, Matte, Drop Shadow, Red Eye, Rip, Tile and Shape. Add a filter like Fish Eye, Black and White, Sepia, Darken, Brighten, Blur, Sharpen, Negative, Emboss, Sketch and more.
	Text Choose font, size, bold, italic, alignment and color. Use Word Art Designer to create custom Headlines with bevel, emboss, gradients, color, outline, drop shadows, warp or shape, or paste images into text.
	Shapes Fill shapes with papers, images, color or text. Also add a matte and drop shadow. Export shapes as SVG files for your electronic die cutter.
	Imprints Imprints act much like a stamp. Change color or size and add drop shadows.
	Calendars Our interactive calendar feature will let you easily change from one year to the next. Customize the font, color, size, numbers, borders, month and year.
	Paint Create your own paint layer on your page. Change the color and size.
	Album Check or change album properties, interactive preview, Spell check, Error check and select the Project Supply List to see a list of all the items used in creating your pages.
	Share Export your project directly to professional printing services for your photobooks or calendars or print at home. Export your project as a png, jpg or svg file formats.

 

Installation 

Computer System Requirements

Prior to installing MyMemories Suite 5, ensure that your computer meets the following technical specifications:

Windows:

� Windows� XP, Windows Vista�, Windows� 7, Windows� 8

� Pentium� IV 2 GHz or better or comparable AMD processor

� 2 GB RAM

� 64 MB Video RAM

� DVD-ROM drive

� Available Hard Disk Space: 10 GB

Macintosh:

� OS X 10.6.8 or later (with the latest JavaTM updates)

� Intel� Core� 2 Duo 2 GHz or better processor

� 2 GB RAM

� 64 MB Video RAM

� DVD-ROM drive

� Available Hard Disk Space: 10 GB

System Settings

� Monitor Resolution: 1152 x 864 or higher

Other Recommendations

� Broadband Internet

� Digital Camera

� Printer

� Scanner

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Trick for shading when colouring

I was browsing some blogs and found a  really good idea for working out where shading should be on your image when colouring.  It's super easy and all you need is some acetate and a permanent marker with your stamped image.  I even made one for my 10 year old that loves drawing and colouring and it has improved his work as well.

It was written by Anice from Funkyhand and posted on the Get funky and craft blog.  I hope that It will help you as much as it has help me.  Have fun Colouring and thank you to Anice for sharing her great tip.

You can find the tutorial here. 

Valentines Cards using Little Claire's Stamps

 

  

More details to follow

Dimension Stamps Project Club - December 2013

The December Club Set was the first valentine's set for them since the start of the stamp club some time ago but was well worth waiting for.

I love the set and think that it is very versaitle.  I made quite a few cards from this set mostly feauring the rosebud as you can see in the photo's below.  Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed making them.

 Love is.....

Card Front

Card Inset

Challenge:
I made this card for The Outlaws Challenge group last week, I was ment to enter it in to the following sections:  Tuesdays Colours, Wednesday Sketch and Thursday's Twist before the PC decided to stop working, so I never posted in the challenges but thought I will still share it here with my readers.

Inks:
Background:
Versamark
Tim Holtz Distress inks in Fired Brick, Broken China
Memento inks in Rosebud and Lady bug
Topper:
Ranger Archival  in Jet Black
Tim Holtz Distress inks in: Spiced melon
Memento inks in:  Canteloupe

Markers:
Promakers in Fresh Meadow, Tropical Orchid  and Pink Lobster

Tools:
Anti Static Bag
Ribbon Slot Punch (unknow brand)
Martha Stewart Crafts - Embroidered Floral Corner Punch Around the Page
Spellbinders - Classic Hearts
Bigshot and Magnetic Platform
Non - Stick Heat Resistant Crafting Sheet

Embellishments:
Turquoise ribbon from my stash

Techniques:
Stamping
Masking
Heat Embossing
Resist Sponging
Matting and Layering
Punching
Die Cutting
Colouring

Just for you.....

 

Inks:
Ranger Archival  in Jet Black

Markers:
Distressed markers in Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Victorian Velvet and Wild Honey

Paper:

Damask Rose by Jennifer Ellory (free gift Exclusive to Cardmaking and Papercraft)


Card:
Centura Pearl in Lavender
Black for matting from stash

Tools:
Sizzix Tim Holtz Valentine Background and Borders Set Embossing Folders
Corner Cromper

Embellishments:
Unknown die cuts a friend shared with me

Techniques:
Stamping
EmbossingColouring
Matting and Layering

Happy Valentines Day:

Card Front

Card Insert

Inks:


Colouring:


Tools:

Embellishments:


Techniques:
Stamping
Masking
Embossing
Colouring
Matting and Layering

Die Cutting

The Rose:

Card Front

Card Insert

This card was inspired by a song by Bette Midler called The Rose, an old favourite of mine.

Inks:

Ranger Archival  in Jet Black

Markers:

Spectum Noir Alcohol Markers

Card:

Centura Pearl in Yellow

Red Card for insert

Tools:

Martha Stewart Punch DOILY LACE TRIM Deep Edge Edger

Techniques:

Stamping

Colouring

Matting and Layering

Punching

  Hope you enjoyed looking at my samples for this club set, but it is now time to start plaaying with the January stamp sets.

3D Cardstock Star embelishment for cards in 3 easy steps

1. Start with a punched or die-cut star and use a bone folder and moulding mat to score lines from each tip of the star to the center of the star.
2. Now turn the star over and gently pinch along each score line to create definition.
3. You can make the create the illusion of more depth by using a sponge dauber a emphasise the edges of the star and darken the score lines slightly.
4. You can also add gems or pearls in the center of the star like I did in the card shown here.

Hope you enjoy trying this, if you use bigger stars you can even create your own decor elements.

SPECIAL REQUEST

Here is a photo of my serious ill mother,please pray for her and if you can
please send her a card to let her know that there are still people that care.
Her Address:
Mrs M Kotze
P O Box 480
Pyramid
0120
South Africa

Please share on your pages to encourage others to pray for her and lets
see how many cards she can get for Christmas to let her know she is thought of
and remembered and will always be.... It will really be appreciated

 
Thank you for reading this post and your prayers

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My Christmas Cards are all made - Hoorray

This year I actually managed to hand make all my Christmas Cards in less then two weeks. It is the first time since I started making cards 10 years ago that I will not be buying a single Christmas Card. This covers all the cards for my son's 30 Class mates, husbands collueges and family local and abroad, super wow and super affordable too. 

 This best about it all is that I managed to make it all with freebies (papers, stamps and Chipboard goodies) from various magazines, some Stephanie Barnard Framelit Flip-Its, a few Dimension Stamps stamp sets and card stock I already had, so super kind on my crafting budget as well. 

Papercraft Inspirations Magazine love this reader challenge entry and and it is going to feature it in their February issue

The 3D stars on this card can be created by die cutting or punching a few star shapes.  Score and fold a line from each point down to the centre point of each star.  Gently pinch each star along the score lines to create a 3d effect so they stand out.  Aply with glue dots or dimensional foam pads.

I will be posting more photo's later, hope you like them all.

Simple Tealight Card Tutorial

Here is some  photos  from the class I taught at Sidley Saturday Club in November!  I used 12" x 6" cardstock and this will hold 3 tealigh candles, you can adjust the card to hold more if you wished to but this will require a bigger sheet of card(more on this in the tutorial below). It was a ton of fun and I learned a lot – first that I was ambitious in what I thought we could do in 2 hours, but learned lots more as well. So my next class should roll along much better. The students were all thrilled, or else they’re awesome fibbers! The youngest student was only nine years old so it is fairly simple to do.  My nine year old son taught younder kids to make the flowers as well.

 

Size

6″ x 12″ Card Stock (Base Scored according to Diagram)
4-3/8 x 3-3/8 Card Stock in a contrasting colour
4-1/4″ x 3-1/4” Patterned Paper
1-1/4″ x 4-1/2″ Acetate

Materials Used

12 x 12" Solid Premium Cardstock Colossal (75pcs) - Capsule
Docrafts Papermania Capsule Collection - Sunshine A4 Paper pack
Crafters Companion Extra Strong Permanent Glue Tape Pen
3 mm Ultra Clear Tape
Glue dots 

Tools Used

Bigshot Die Cutting Machine
Stampin Up Simply Scored Score Board
Stampin Up Scallop Edge Border Punch
Stampin Up Bone Folder
Lea'bilities Poinsettia Die
Starburst Paper Punch
 

Directions

1. Using your Simply Scored board butt the 6" side of the cardstock against the side of the board and score at 1/2", 1- 1/4", 2- 3/4", 3-1/2" and 8-1/2 .
2. Using your Simply Scored board again butt the 12"side up against the board and score both sides at 3/4" .
3. Burnish all the score lines with your bone folder
4. Cut out the notches (black areas on the Diagram)and draw the rectangular apeture, leaving about 1/4" border, then cut this out with a craft knifeand steel edge ruler.
5. Add Acetate to the rectangle apeture you just created using ultra clear tape along the 1/4" border you left. You can also emboss the acetate for a special effect.
6. Apply Crafter's Companion Extra strong tape pen to the area marked in red on the diagram to glue the box together.
7. Punch the border of the other short edge and your card is ready to decorate.
8. If you wanted to add more tea candles or a chocolate;  all you have to do put them together the way they will lay in the box and measure then add 1-1/2" to this measurement and cut your card using this measurement (x) x 12" e.g 8"x12".

Diagram

Flowers

For the big flower topper on the main card:

1. Die cut 2 of each size of the flower, 5 big leaves and one of each flourish. 
2. Punch one starburst for the stamen of the big flower.
3. Place all flowers on the molding pad (thick craft foam will also work) to shape and press down in the center to cup the flower slightly.
4. Glue and stack the petals: 2 large, 2 medium and 2 small - offsetting each layer.
5. Place in the staburst in the center of the flower and glue in place.
6. Fold each leave in half and make small concertina folds from the bottom of the leave to the top at a slight angle.
7. Open up the leaves and glue 2 on the one side of the flower and 3 together on the other.
8. Arrange and glue on top of the flourishes and add to the main card.

For the small flower on the side of the box:

1. Die cut 2 small flowers and 2 small leave.
2. Punch one starburst for the stamen
3. Place both flowers and the starburst on the molding pad (thick craft foam will also work) to shape and press down hard in the center to cup the flower and use your fingers to cup it around the stylus.
4. Glue and stack the petals and starburst again offsetting each layer.
5. Fold each leave in half and make small concertina folds from the bottom of the leave to the top at a slight angle.  
6. Unfold the leaves and glue then onto the side of the small flower before adhering the arrangement to the side of the box with a glue dot. 

Traplet's Bookazine: A Card For All Seasons

I just received my copy and really love it, it is definetly the best of the last years cards featured in The Craft Stamper magazibe, so if you do not buy this magazine but would like to see why it is own of my favourites do invest in this bookazine it is awesome:)

A Card for all Seasons will guide you through making wonderful greetings cards and teach you some of the best-loved stamping methods. Using beautifully photographed, step-by-step projects to illustrate the techniques, the world’s best craft designers will help you achieve perfect results every time.  Using the different seasons as inspiration, the cards showcase a pleasingly varied number of styles – cute, sophisticated, contemporary, vintage, arty and graphic – plus extra ideas for creating matching items like tags, gift wrap and envelopes.  Try your hand at creating an amazingly realistic faux denim look; use our fantastic colouring techniques to create realistic skin tones on your stamped characters; learn how to use normal packing tape to transfer photographic images and create your own hand-dyed ribbon. Create artistic backgrounds using Distress Inks, ink sprays, paints, highlighter pens and much more! Step-by-step, clever paper engineering projects show you how to make a wonderful side step card, an incredible dissolving image card and a detailed 3D tunnel card. And for the thrifty there are ideas for using up your scrap paper, incorporating newspaper into your designs and recycling bottle caps! AYears of inspiration is here, waiting for you to discover it!
Featuring over 110 stunning cards, this bookazine is your essential guide to making beautiful cards using rubber stamps. You will find the very best card-making projects from the Craft Stamper back catalogue presented here. The projects have all been hand picked by Craft Stamper's editorial team, so you can see the very best techniques and most beautiful designs that we've published over the last couple of years.  

£5.99  at The Traplet Shop

Ready Steady Craft

I can not believe it, it's been four years since I have had all my craft goods in one room.

It all started nearly when I found out that I was pregnant with Bianca and we realized we needed a bigger house. We thought we were lucky as there was a lot on the market that we like and that was in our price range so we made our first offer and it was accpeted. Now in an ideal world we would have been in the new house within a few months so I started packing up all my craft stuff and non essentials. But as there is no law governing conduct after accepting an offer in the UK, the seller pulled out. This happened 3 times and cost us a small fortune in legal fees not to mention the agony of have to search through boxes if you need stuff or I wanted to craft. To make a long story short we eventually bought our current house in 2011 but with two babies it took a long old time to unpack everything and work through it all but I am nearly done.

All that need to happen is that the Hubby has to take some time out of his busy running schedule (doing over 50 miles a week) to build my Shelving in the Craft Hut (Shed) and I can get it properly organized but it is organized enought to be able to find what I need in 10 minutes so I can just pull stuff out and create.

To top it off my olderst went back to school today and one of the girls start Nursery next week. This means at least an hour a day for me to craft during the week. Can not tell you how happy I am about this as I got nearly nothing done during the Summer School holiday even though I attempted a few tries. So I will be crafting during the week and posting Saturday or Sunday mornings, depending on what day Daddy will look after our monkeys.

Thanks for being so patient with me over the last few years, while real life took priority over blogging and not have my creating got shown on the blog.

Three Dimensional Rose

I love Roses and just had to make this beautiful 3d rose to add dimension to some of my projects. I used slightly coloured card and waterbased pigment ink. Just remember to heat set it before you touch the flowers to prevent smodging or use a permanent ink if you prefer.

Step-by-Step

Materials:
Sabelina Vintage ER-C6
Iris Inks by Sabelina (waterbased pigment ink)
Aleene's Tacky Glue Fast Drying Glue pen
Glue Gun
Mini pegs
Stickles (icicle)
Card or paper of your choice

Use the ink of your choice to stamp the five petal flower three times and three leaves in the size of your choice. I like stamping a few extra leaves just in case.

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I use Sabelina Stamp Cleaner spray and Cleaning pad at this stage to clean my stamps. Simply spray the liquid onto the stamps and rub them onto the cleaning pads to let the bristles remove any residual ink.

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Cut the flowers and leaves out carefully and cut away extra little bits. On the first flower cut out a single petal and set both pieces aside and on the second flower cut out a two petal section leaving a three petal piece. So in total you will need five pieces to complete your rose.

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Also cut the center out of the complete flower and small piece from the centre as shown in the photo. Distress the edges slightly to add definition. Now start shaping the flower and leaves as desired.

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Curl the pieces to form a round shape, with stamp image on the inside, and use a strong and quick drying glue to stick petals together and mini peg or clips to hold in place until the glue is dry.Set aside to dry for about 30 minutes just to be sure the glue is perfectly set. Remove the peg and gently use your fingertips to start shaping the petal edges.

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Assemble the layers to make the rose. I normally use my heat gun for this but you can also use silicone as it is more flexible but it does take longer to dry. Add the leaves to the bottom of your rose and then apply it to your project. Create as many roses as you require for your project. Finish by adding Stickels or glitter as desired.

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I hope you enjoy making these as much as I did. Here is a photo to show you the different size roses you can achieve using this stamp set.

NEWLY ADDED: I found this Video on Youtube to show you how to put it together: Paper Roses and Butterflies - ENG series by SweetBioDesigns and would like to thank her for sharing here ideas. (26/01/2014)

I have used to the roses to decorate gifts:

I have also made a wreath, that can double up as a table piece with a candle in the center as shown below:
 

Father's day Cards 2013

Here are the cards my kids made for their daddy on father's day.  The Big card with the Laptop was David's (9) handywork, the bus Juliets (2) and Biking teddy Bianca's (3). I did the stamping for the girls but they choose what the wanted and what it had to say and David did it all himself even created the backgrounds himself. The blue traingle has got beermugs and he coloured the foam with a white jelly rol pen and the tray with a silver pen.

He loved it and was very supprised even when he got it a bit early cause the could not wait for father's day.

Ink Essentials

 

Ink is an essential item in your toolbox if you love cardmaking and would love to try stamping. For the perfect stamped results every time it is a good idea to familiarise yourself with the different types, as achieving a professional finish often depends on using the right type of ink for the job.

There are many different surfaces you can stamp on, from card to acetate, vellum and fabric, and then there are fun variations like heat embossing. You can also use inks without stamps; as a colouring medium to add colour to the edges of card panels, for example.

As a result, different ink types have been created to help you get the best effect with each technique. Each ink type and its properties is described opposite but don’t be afraid to experiment either! The more you practise, the more you’ll discover which mediums you like best. So take out your scrap paper and start stamping today!

For the perfect stamped results every time it is a good idea to familiarise yourself with the different types, as achieving a professional finish often depends on using the right type of ink for the job.

Ask yourself these few questions to determine what type of ink you need for each project:

1. What is the medium that you will be applying the ink to? (e.g. paper, wood, fabric, metal, glass, acetate, ceramics, plastic, etc.)
2. What application technique will you be using? (stamping, direct to paper, brayering, sponging, painting, more on these in a later post)
3. Do you the ink to be acid-free and archival quality for scrapbooking?
4. Does the image need to be fade-resistant or permanent?
5. Will you be embossing the images or does it need to be fast drying?
6. How would you be adding colour to the image?

Oil-based Inks

These inks are ideal for stamping highly detailed stamps and dries reasonably quickly. They repel water making it suitable for watercolouring with all but Derwent and Sanford Prismacolor unless heat set first.
Brands:
Tsukineko Versafine
Ranger Archival

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Solvent-based Inks

These inks are permanent, fast drying and designed for decorating non-porous and semi-porous surfaces, such as metal, tile, terracotta, vinyl,  shrink plastic, acrylic, cellophane, aluminum foil, leather, some glass surfaces and even stone.  The firm felt pad ensures that the stamp inks up evenly for a very crisp detailed image for a base image that can then be coloured with waterclour pencils, pens of AquaMarkers without bleeding or fading.  Permanent inks are solvent-based inks that dry by evaporation. They’re similar to the ink in Sharpie pens: they're very fast-drying, permanent, and works on a wide range of surfaces. Permanent inks will stain your stamps—and everything else they come in contact with. They require a solvent cleaner (use immediately after stamping) for easier clean up and are not good for clear stampsbecause the cleaner deteriorate the polymer.
Brands:
Tsukineko StazOn

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Dye-based Inks

Dye-based inks are water-based, non-toxic, washable, many are child safe, and their colorants are dyes. Dye-based inks are quick-drying, transparent and will blend easily and dry quickly on most porous surfaces.  Because of how quickly the ink dries it is not suitable for embossing but are suitable for colouring with both water colour and alcohol based markers without smudging.  It is useful to note that dye-based ink soaks into the fibres of the paper rather than sitting on top essentially staining them,  so you will get the brightest effect if you use them on pale or white card, rather than dark coloured card where the colour will blend.  They are great for Sponging, direct to paper techniques and you can also create water-colour or 'marble-effect' backgrounds by first lightly spritzing your paper or cardstock with water making a bleeding effect which you can play around with to  make the effect you want. It’s sold on     a hard felt pad, which means it’s difficult to over-ink your stamp, so it gives clean, crisp images – perfect for stamping outlines and ideal for those new to stamping.  Dye Ink based pads are waterbased so are easy to clean and come in hundreds of colors.
Brands:
Tsukineko Impress, Memento, Kaleidcolor
Ranger Adirondack
Big & Juicy
Clear Snaps
DoCrafts Ink It Up
Papermania Whispers
Sabelina Artemis

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Pigment-Based Inks

Pigment inks are water/glycerin-based, acid free, non-toxic, fade resistant and more opaque than dye inks. Pigments are not easily washed out of clothing and will stain fabric, wood, carpet.  Pigment inks are generally sold on a spongy pad which make then ideally suited to clear stamps but beware of over-inking your stamps. There are also lots of exciting variations of pigment inks available, such as shimmery and chalk finishes, which are fantastic for stamping colour on your cards.
Unlike dye-based ink, pigment ink dries on the surface of the card rather than soaking into the fibres, so the colours often look more vibrant and opaque than dye-based ink and they allow enough time for the embossing powder to stick to the inked area. Pigments will not dry on glossy or non-porous surfaces without heat setting or embossing. Once embossed they are permanent and can be safely watercolored and are also archival, permanent and fade resistant once heat set.  Pigment ink is available in pads and markers.  These are made from pigments suspended in a thick, glycerin-based substance. Their thickness boosts opacities and brightness.
Brands:
Tsukineko Versacolour, Versafine, Versamagic, Brilliance, Encore, Opalite
Ranger Adirondack
Clear Snap
Sabelina  Iris

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Chalk Inks

Chalk inks are a pigment ink which have a powdery, matte
finish once dry, they're opaque and dry quickly. They have the vibrance of a pigment ink but can be blended like a dye-based ink, making them a popular choice with cardmakers.  These are really great inks that dry to a chalking finish with none of that chalky residue and can be used on dark papers and surfaces.  They can be used in place of dye and pigment inks.
Brands:
Tsukineko VersaMagic
Clearsnap ColorBox Chalk Ink

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Craft Inks

Similar in consistency as pigment inks that is acid free, non-solvent based, non-toxic and water soluble until completely dry and permenant once heat set. Once dry you can safely watercolor over them. these are formulated specially for use on fabric but can be used on other porous surfaces wood, paper mache, foam, leather, canvas, ceramics, cork and a variety of other surfaces. They can be used in place of pigment or dye inks on most paper for vivid colours.
Brands:
Stampin'Up
Sabelina Athena

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Specialist Inks

Embossing and Watermark inks
VersaMark ink is a very sticky, clear pigment ink. It’s ideal for heat embossing and other effects because embossing powder will stick to it and as it is clear you can add any colour of powder to it. Embossing and watermark inks are essentially pigment inks without the pigment (some are lightly tinted). They are used for heat embossing and for adding a slightly darker imprint for a tone-on-tone look.

Brands:
Tsukineko Versamark
Sabelina Graces
ClearSnap

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Distress Inks
These are dye-based inks with a higher concentration of colour and a longer drying time than normal. They are designed to flow when sprayed with water, and to be blended and worked into your project. They are ideal for altered art and distress effects.
Brands:
Ranger Distress Ink

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Alcohol Inks
These are special dye-based inks designed to give a pretty, polished-stone effect. They are quick-drying and permanent, and can be used on lots of surfaces including glossy paper, acetate, shrink plastic, foil and metal.
Brands:
Ranger Adirondack

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Hints & Tips

1. Always store your ink pads upside down, so the ink falls to the top of the felt pad. This will ensure your ink pad stays juicy when it’s needed.
2. Make sure your stamp is clean before you ink it up, so your ink pads don't become tainted with other colours.
3. To avoid over-inking your stamps, always take the ink pad to the stamp, tapping it gently onto the surface (instead of pressing the stamp down into the ink pad). This will help you achieve an even coverage of ink and a clean, stamped image.

"Purplelishious"Card featured on The Outlawz Challenge

Here is my featured entry on the Monday Greeting Card Challenge - May 20th over at The Outlawz Challenges.
You may create any type of card for this challenge as long as you use purple, lavender or grape tones and have a sentiment on the front of the card.

I got the idea for this card on card-making-magic.com by Christina Griffiths.  She is Brilliant and makes card making so so easy with her easy to follow projects  and Video tutorials on YouTube. Do subscribe to her YouTube channel and websites newsletters for all the inspiration you will ever need.

You can also find a Sue Wilson version here in PDF format.

Hope you like it.