Continuing on with Ink Stains 6 month anniversary today tell me what your favorite inking and/or rubber stamping technique is! It doesn't have to be anything featured on the blog...it can be whatever you love.
I'll bet you can guess what my favorite is...YES, anything to do with the Ink Blending Tool!!! SOOOO, today's prize is an Ink Blending Tool & Foams :) Gotta spread that love!!
You'll have until Friday 5-30 to tell me your favorite technique at which time I'll draw out the name of the lucky poster!
Have a great day!!
I'd have to say my favorite technique is stamping with the India Ink pad and coloring with my water brush and watercolor pensils or crayons. Love it!!
ReplyDeleteI've got to admit... I am in LUV with my ink blending tool. I use it for everything! I love the results I get from it!
ReplyDeletelove to play with the alcohol inks, and then stamping over. I have not played with an ink blending tool YET because all my LSS's dont carry them :(. They do look fun!!!
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I had to post anonymous because its not letting me sign in=(
I just want to say HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! IMO you have created the best inky crafty blog around. ((((hugs)))) Best wishes for continued success!
ReplyDeleteI still love heat embossing - something about watching the powder melt......I know - weird!
ReplyDeleteOH,OH,OH........I SO want to win this prize!! My stores barely even know what alcohol ink is, much less carry the ink blending tool so I've been making do with cosmetic wedges (yes, I know, not the same thing...!). But anyway, my favorite technique would be heat embossing. It still seems like weird science to me everytime it works! I love stamping multiple images with Versamark and heat embossing with white powder to make a textured background. THen swiping colored ink over the whole business!
ReplyDeleteI love the grungy, distressed, old world look. So I use lots of browns and blacks to stamp, then I distress the paper, I swipe the paper with distress ink, my favourite being walnut stain, frayed burlap and tea stain, and sometimes I heat emboss the stamps too. And lots of layering. Thanks for your great tutorials!
ReplyDeleteIt's so hard to pick just one favorite, but at the moment creating backgrounds with inks using brayers, or stencil brushes or even just a scrunched up plastic bag - anything messy and inky really that ends up looking fabulous
ReplyDeleteMe and my brayer...okay brayerS! LOVE them all!...right next to cut n dry foam. CnD worked so well for so long I just got my 1st applicator...and now with you blog I will be testing out all those wonderful things to do with it!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd then...I am sure I will be buying more than one! Ah-h folks who like techniques never stop!
Thanks for your wonderful blog and tutorials!
My favorite technique is anything to do with resists -- in particular clear embossing an image, adding colour to the background and then using an iron to remove the embossing.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I didn't think I needed an ink blending tool until I read your 10 top techniques for the tool. Now it is on my list!
Sheryl H
Congrats on your 6 month anniversary:). I have blending tools coming out my ears, so if I win you can pick someone else to give it to, but I wanted to congratulate you anyway and share my favorite techniques. I love techniques in general, and love trying new things. Right now the ones I find myself using the most are the spritz and flick technique and resist techniques of all kinds.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite stamping technique is heat embossing. This was the technique that got me hooked on stamping. Seeing the powder turn into slick, shiny surfaces is still so much fun!
ReplyDeleteSachi H.
Congrats on a wonderful blog. I like to distress anything and everything! It can be the main focus, or the perfect finishing touch!
ReplyDeleteAw, man. I posted the day you asked the question, but the blog ate it again! (Good thing I came back here to read what other people said in their comments or I wouldn't have known.)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, to paraphrase what I said, I am with PHREE - I love wet media - ink, paint, glaze, glue, etc. and making really cool backgrounds. The messier the better.
On Ink Stains, I love the Snow Princess you did - just stunning, and the the batik technique, water color technique, using background stamps, alcohol inked coasters, the color wash heart-shaped box, perfect pearls painting technique and... and... and... I could go on, but you get the picture. Honestly, there is nothing you've demoed that I HAVEN'T liked. Well done and happy 6 months!
~phinny