Using the "very cost effective", Celebrate, pigment petal point (you just "gotta love" that they are giving you 2 metallic colors in this assortment), I inked my gorgeous "Magenta" heart image with the eggplant and midnight blue sections. Stamp and emboss with Clearsnap's clear embossing powder. Pigment ink is the perfect choice for this with it's ability to stay "open" longer and "grab& hold" the embossing powder while you heat it.
The embossing powder will simply act as a "protector" while we fill in the rest of the panel with color. Create a mask for your heart image and after applying the mask to your panel use your Colorbox stylus and a white foam tip (your paintbrush for your stamp pads) to apply the eggplant color outside the image.
Apply the metallic silver to the interior of your heart and pull it outside the heart image in a "radiating way" using a separate white foam tip to accomplish this. Your foam tips are reusable. Do not attempt to rinse out, simply keep them for use with "like colors" in pigment ink for the rest of it's life. Work right over top of the embossed image. Remember it is simply acting as a protectorate of the original stamped image.
Place a reverse mask around the image and now add shading to the interior with the midnight pigment ink and "of course" a separate white foam tip" that has been used before for dark blue colors of pigment ink. Yes, I have 2 white foam tips for each color family one for dark blues and one for light blues etc. etc.
Oh, look at that heart shine. By the way did you notice how easy it was to blend the colors together? Well that "trait" is brought to you by the characteristics of pigment ink. Not only does it stay open longer to facilitate embossing but the "openness" of the ink allows you to blend colors together like breathing. Love, love, love this! BUT how can we encourage it to dry, for not only do we have an ink that wants to stay "moist" for an extended period of time but we have just added many layers of this ink to the project. This is easy. Simply iron with a hot dry iron with a clean piece of newsprint over top of the panel. Two things will happen. Your ink will be instantly dry and cured and the newsprint will absorb the clear embossing powder that protected the original stamped image, returning it to it's full color, glory. If you follow my articles in both Scrap & Stamp Arts, magazine and Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine you will find that I use this technique for a great many of my projects and that it takes many forms. Way, way too much fun and versatile too.Let's add a ribbon, custom color and print it with this fabulous new petal point, stamp pad and then iron to dry and cure the ink. Apply the eggplant color (with your stylus of course to protect your stamp pad) to both sides of a light colored ribbon. Iron with your hot, dry iron to set the ink. Remember to sandwich the ribbon between two sheets of clean, newsprint. Now using the "I love you" from the "Stamps of Life" clear set "dictionary4me" stamp repeatedly over your ribbon, inking each time you stamp as shown. Once you finish one side, iron and then repeat on the other side.
How much fun was "that". Another "white piece of Superstock" bites the dust. Oh, how I love transforming paper and ribbon with glorious stamp images and Clearsnap's amazing line of petal point, pigment stamp pads. AND this new one ... celebrate ... I am celebrating that Clearsnap added this one to their already wonderful line.
nice project! thank you for sharing.
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