Creating Spray Inks With Colorbox Mix'd Media Inx Refills and Basic Necessities

Hello! Mary Dawn with you today, and I'm bringing you a cool way to use your refills and the Basic Necessities Jumbo Spritz Bottle. 

 I used a Craft Funnel, Basic Necessities Jumbo Spritz Bottles and several Mix'd Media Inx Refills along with rubbing alcohol to make my own colored ink mists. I just put in enough ink to make a fairly opaque spray. You can use dye ink refills to create your own ink sprays, but only pigment ink will result in opaque sprays. And sometimes not even then, more on that in a moment. 

I used a variety of colors of Mix'd Media Inx Refills as well as Colorbox Frost White Refill  and  rubbing alcohol to make these sprays. I may go back and experiment some more with a water/alcohol mixture, but for now I'll let you know what worked for me with just alcohol. The Mossy, Wisteria and Patina Mix'd Media Inx were my best successes--the ink didn't separate and the colors were comparable to the original color. Peaches Inx Refill, Jasmine Inx, and Colorbox Frost White refills didn't work out just mixing the refill with alcohol - I was looking for an opaque effect from the spray. I tried adding more refill, less alcohol--it just wasn't a success. Perhaps adding distilled water only might have a better result.

I sprayed my 3 successes (also my 3 favorite colors in the Donna Salazar Inx Line) onto watercolor paper. Because I mixed these sprays with alcohol only, they dry very quickly, even on watercolor paper. 

These are my backgrounds after they were completely dry. I love the way the spray dried where it puddled. 

I stamped my backgrounds with the Faux Postal Jumbo Stamping Wheel using the Coal Black Ancient Page Ink Cartridge in the Jumbo Self-Inking Handle. I cut my "postage stamps" apart and chose my two favorite images for today's project. I had plenty of beautiful images left for some quick card projects later.

Next, I stamped two Hero Arts Kraft Notecards using the Simple Dots Jumbo Stamping Wheel and the Top Boxx Watermark Cartridge in the Jumbo Self-Inking Handle. 

Then I chose some Twinery Twine to coordinate with the images I chose. 

I stamped my Hero Arts sentiment onto kraft cardstock using Colorbox Archival Dye Ink Wicked Black.

I used a Hero Arts & Sizzix Frame-Cuts Die to cut my sentiments. 

I used my elements to create two different cards. 

Clearsnap Products:

Bare Necessities Jumbo Spritz Bottle

Colorbox Mix'd Media Inx Refill Jasmine, Peaches, Wisteria, Patina, Mossy

Colorbox Pigment Refill Frost White

Jumbo Rollagraph Self-Inking Handle

Jumbo Rollagraph Stamping Wheel Faux Postage & Simple Dots

Ancient Page Jumbo Ink Cartridge Coal Black

Top Boss Jumbo Ink Cartridge Watermark

Other Products:
Hero Arts With Sympathy Clear Stamp Set

Hero Arts Kraft Cardstock & Notecards

Hero Arts Watercolor Paper

Hero Arts & Sizzix Frame Cuts Eiffel Tower

Twinery Twine

Thank you for stopping by the Clearsnap Blog today! 

Mary Dawn, My Pink Mexico