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Post by MichyM on Jul 25, 2022 18:15:43 GMT
I’m finally getting decent at heat embossing (only took a few months) yay me! Most of us love Versafine Clair, but I’m finding their selection of colors to be limited. For example, amongst other colors, I really need a darker red than their tulip red.
Do you have a second favorite pigment ink that you like? I’ll be using it primarily for sentiments, so it needs to stamp nice and crisp and clear. Thanks so much!
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penguinpea
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Post by penguinpea on Jul 25, 2022 19:55:55 GMT
If you have any distress oxides they work for embossing.
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Post by lindas on Jul 25, 2022 20:07:15 GMT
If you use a stamping platform don’t limit yourself to just pigment ink colors. If you find a dry ink color you like just stamp a second time with versamark ink and clear embossing powder.
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Post by pinklady on Jul 25, 2022 20:12:49 GMT
If you use a stamping platform don’t limit yourself to just pigment ink colors. If you find a dry ink color you like just stamp a second time with versamark ink and clear embossing powder. This is exactly what my advice was going to be. This is the exact reason for using a stamping tool! |
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Post by MichyM on Jul 25, 2022 20:47:49 GMT
If you use a stamping platform don’t limit yourself to just pigment ink colors. If you find a dry ink color you like just stamp a second time with versamark ink and clear embossing powder. Well duh <smacks forehead>. Thank you! Now to work on my versamark stamping technique. I seem to always end up with too little or too much (since it’s hard to see the ink) of it on the paper. I‘ve tried with the distress oxides (in fact embossed some sentiments with them over the weekend), but thought that they don’t emboss as nicely as I’d like. I need to keep practicing. Thanks for that penguinpea. |
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Post by pinklady on Jul 25, 2022 22:07:36 GMT
MichyM Check out Jennifer McGuires new video. She talks about embossing twice. I've never embossed with oxide ink but that may make a difference.
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Post by don on Jul 25, 2022 22:32:05 GMT
I have always liked Encore and clear powder.
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Post by Ryann on Jul 26, 2022 0:48:34 GMT
MichyM you ask great questions. I'm always learning something new from them! 
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Post by PaperAngel on Jul 27, 2022 7:33:12 GMT
Check out another Tsukineko brand pigment ink, VersaColor, which offers 76 colors in both full-sized ink pads & cubes. HTH. |
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Post by joblackford on Jul 27, 2022 21:13:12 GMT
I believe Catherine Pooler inks stay wet long enough to emboss with (as long as you work fairly quickly) and they have some gorgeous saturated colors (including several rich reds). shop.catherinepooler.com/pages/ink They’re also water reactive and work for blending too. They don’t have the dull oxidized finish that oxides do so I realized (a bit belatedly) that they’re more appealing to me than oxides. They stamp beautifully too. |
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Post by marg on Jul 27, 2022 21:15:23 GMT
I believe Catherine Pooler inks stay wet long enough to emboss with (as long as you work fairly quickly) and they have some gorgeous saturated colors (including several rich reds). shop.catherinepooler.com/pages/ink They’re also water reactive and work for blending too. They don’t have the dull oxidized finish that oxides do so I realized (a bit belatedly) that they’re more appealing to me than oxides. They stamp beautifully too. Huh, I own a bunch of her inks and never realized they'd stay wet long enough to emboss with - thanks for the tip! |
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Post by MichyM on Jul 27, 2022 23:04:44 GMT
MichyM Check out Jennifer McGuires new video. She talks about embossing twice. I've never embossed with oxide ink but that may make a difference. Thank you. I had watched a JM video about multiple embossing a while back, but clearly forgot about it. This helped remind me to do so. |
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 29, 2022 22:46:06 GMT
CZ just shared this tip for embossing white on dark color. I've seen it before and tried it, but I think my white ink was too juicy and I had problems getting a clean stamp. I need to try it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx_UGaC0zs0&list=RDCMUChb2ek4nPBIaJR3T7E-etMg&start_radio=1Kristina Warner shared this one a couple years ago. I watched it right before JM's video linked above and thought it was interesting that KW suggests not to heat from the back and JM says she gets better results heating from the back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyG-erhpWEYLeads me to believe it all just a crap shoot. :-) |
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Post by joblackford on Jul 30, 2022 1:16:01 GMT
Leads me to believe it all just a crap shoot. :-) Right? Everyone seems to do it a little differently. Ardyth heats from the front but places her piece in a foil lined box to save her fingers and because she thinks it reflects the heat back to the underside. I figure it's worth trying a few different methods and seeing which works best for your own heat gun but it also doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Jul 30, 2022 12:39:45 GMT
I haven’t watched any videos on heat embossing, but I’ve been a stamper a very long time. While I mostly stamp my sentiments in black, sometimes I orefer stamping in color, and not all of my colored inks are formulated for heat embossing. They don’t have to be. Any inks that aren’t made to dry fast will work.
I have multiple colors of embossing powders. If I want to stamp a sentiment in red, I not only use red ink, but red embossing powder. The same is true of green, blue, black, etc. I only use clear embossing powder if I am stamping in an ink color that is a bit more unusual and don’t have a matching embossing powder.
The downside is that some embossing powders can go bad over time, but most of mine have not. I have some that have lasted for literally decades. The one or two of mine that have gone bad were a cheaper, unknown brand that I got at Tuesday Morning or WalMart.
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 30, 2022 18:03:55 GMT
How can you tell if one has gone bad?
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Post by MichyM on Aug 1, 2022 0:47:21 GMT
CZ just shared this tip for embossing white on dark color. I've seen it before and tried it, but I think my white ink was too juicy and I had problems getting a clean stamp. I need to try it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx_UGaC0zs0&list=RDCMUChb2ek4nPBIaJR3T7E-etMg&start_radio=1Kristina Warner shared this one a couple years ago. I watched it right before JM's video linked above and thought it was interesting that KW suggests not to heat from the back and JM says she gets better results heating from the back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyG-erhpWEYLeads me to believe it all just a crap shoot. :-) Thank you. I think I've watched the KW but the CZ is definitely new to me. I'll watch it in a bit. I just got a fresh GinaK white pad, so it's timely. I also got a jar of embossing powder in Cream, so I'm curious to see if I like something a little softer than stark white for some projects. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Aug 1, 2022 11:31:12 GMT
How can you tell if one has gone bad? It just doesn’t emboss well. |
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Post by PaperAngel on Aug 3, 2022 2:58:52 GMT
If you use a stamping platform don’t limit yourself to just pigment ink colors. If you find a dry ink color you like just stamp a second time with versamark ink and clear embossing powder. Well duh <smacks forehead>. Thank you! Now to work on my versamark stamping technique. I seem to always end up with too little or too much (since it’s hard to see the ink) of it on the paper. I‘ve tried with the distress oxides (in fact embossed some sentiments with them over the weekend), but thought that they don’t emboss as nicely as I’d like. I need to keep practicing. Thanks for that penguinpea . Note dye inks do not yield crisp/detailed sentiments/images like VersaFine Clair. Consider using VersaMark, a Tsukineko brand clear/watermark ink that also captures crisp details, paired with colored embossing powders to achieve colors not in the VersaFine Clair line. I suggest gently tapping VersaMark ink onto the stamp until fully covered (vs the reverse/pushing the stamp into the ink pad) & re-ink as necessary. ETA: How can you tell if one has gone bad? While I've never had to toss any EP (e.g. Ranger, Zing) in almost 20 years, it's my understanding powders that discolor, excessively clump both in the jar & on paper, &/or do not melt properly (traits usually resulting from either non-airtight storage or poor quality EP) should be replaced. |
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