Crop & Create Cardmaking March 2022

After sitting 30 miles away from me for 4 days the Box arrived and I ripped it open. All I can say WOW!
Very happy that I joined again.

This is a question for #teampeek

Re your spoiler - none in my box either. 

#teamripitopen 

Thank you everyone and thank you Beth CardBoxer for solving the mystery 😊.

I don’t like anything to do with stitching, thread and needles, sewing, but I’m going for it - it looks so cool. 

BTW, on facebook there’s talk about the gems in the Spellbinder sneak peek. It’s normal that some participants got one color, some another, so if any of you peekers wonder why you don’t have the color that’s on the sneak, that’s why. I like the color in the sneak peek so will buy some. 💎

I’m not participating in the event but I’m reading the thread.  It’s entertaining to watch you try to be vague.  

I got the same colours as those in the spoiler above. I've only looked through my box, quickly, once. I'm wanting the official unboxing to still have some element of "new" to me.

Great tip. Thank you

Has anyone tried both the Concord & 9th and Stamp Market inks? I'm going to treat myself to some new ink pads and I'm not sure which one I want to buy. Any feedback would be appreciated.

C&9 are more like Catherine Pooler - sponge pads, juicy. I didn’t think I’d like them because of that but they’re really nice. (Some were included in their Summer Camp.) They have liquid water colors to match.

Stamp Market inks seem high quality like most dye inks, which are made by the same company and branded. Her colors are very clear and many are soft. I like how she labels them (bad eyes). A couple colors are very close. 

I have Gina K too - and Hero Arts, Altenew, IO (Impression Obsession for their dark/medium/lights and some unusual neutrals), others. I shop by color more than brand, as my LSS and Jennifer McGuire advised many when I was learning to stamp. 

Recently I picked up some SSS’s Pawsitively Saturated inks and like them very much too though would prefer cubes. Yana enabled me in her blog.

Another great ink is Versafine Clair which stamps fine details so well. The magic is it can be heat embossed many minutes after stamping, even when it feels dry. I stamped 7 different sentiments with Clair’s dark black Nocturne on the front of a card one at a time and stopped partway through, so about 8 minutes, yet embossed them all at once. They also do second generation stamping very well, and even third. 

Gina K’s inks are very nice too, and she has more colors than some companies. I don’t find they blend differently than some of the others. Many of her colors are the barest bit toned down compared to, say, The Stamp Market’s.

That’s not a negative. Someone I know who has full set syndrome for many companies told me she thinks of Gina K’s as more autumn. I wouldn’t say that - she has lovely light pinks and blues and yellows, but maybe that bit of toned down-ness plus more autumn colors than some other companies was what she was picking up on. 

Sorry, someone said ink, which turns on the color switch. I worked with house paint colors and color theory for some years and the obsession with color transferred to inks.

Just my take; YMMV. It will vary. 

I only have the three Concord and 9th inks from the last card event. Colors are lovely, but one is so dry it’s almost unusable. One is good and the other way too juicy.

I'm team #signingupnexttime. Can't wait. You all are making me jelly!