Retake on Thinking Inking: A Comedy of Errors

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Retake on Thinking Inking: A Comedy of Errors

Nora and I got together to make this week's tags. I'm so glad we did it together because what might have been frustrating alone was hilarious together. We spent a lot of time laughing.I bought my Paint Dabbers for the Thinking Inking classes, and they all needed a bit of water; a couple needed a lot of water. We sprayed and stirred and sprayed and stirred lots more. Then we needed to prime those dabber tops. I had stored them upside down, but a year is a long time, and they just wouldn't work. We pressed them down onto the craft sheet on some sprayed water, but I don't think we held them down long enough–30-60 seconds is a very long time. Eventually, we just poured the stuff onto the craft sheet, put the tops back on, and happily dabbed away.For the tags posted here, we tried the Dark Resist Technique. I cut a couple of tags out of black cardstock, stamped a Judikins background stamp with VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with Ranger's Clear Super Fine EP. It looked so pretty. Then I dabbed on Willow, Juniper, and Aqua paint. I set it aside to dry for about ten to fifteen minutes. The instructions said it didn't have to dry completely. I used a baby wipe remove the paint from the embossed image. Uh-uh. All the paint came off. I let it dry, and I dabbed more paint onto it. This time I let it dry a couple of hours, and I couldn't get the paint off. With a lot of effort, I did get some of it off, but it looked terrible. (I know now that I should have used a slightly damp rag, but I tried that today, and it wasn't much better.) You can see the before and after pictures in the second picture above.Hmmm. I really liked the before picture. I could see the Judikins image lurking under the paint. I decided I'd invented a new background technique and I stamped over it with Ranger's Archival Ink, Jet Black. I saw Tim Holtz use that to stamp over his Paint Dabber background. That fern is one of my favorite Hero Arts images. I made a second background and stamped it with VersaMark and heat embossed it with Ranger's Super Fine Black EP. I thought I'd have another tag to send when I swapped. It was not to be. I must not have waited long enough for the paint to dry because it melted and spoiled the image. At first I thought we just couldn't heat emboss over the paint, but I had done it successfully on the faux marble background (another post). Less I discourage anyone from using the paint dabbers, take a look at the beautiful background they made in the third picture. The paints have a lovely chalky, matte finish.The last picture was what I had in mind when I started this process. However, I cheated and used Brilliance Inks. The dark one is on black cs with the image clear embossed; the other two are on a manila tags. The lightest one was clear embossed, and I was just cleaning off the finger daubers when I colored it. The medium one was black embossed. All of them used Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue, Pearlescent Mediterranean Blue, and Gamma Green.TFL. Daria

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