I just wanted to say what a wonderful job you did explaining the many different types of inks available. I’ve been paper crafting for over 25 years and have worked teaching this subject (many years ago) for local stores. Anyone new to stamping or confused about all the different inks are very lucky to find this video. You gave wonderful information without overwhelming.
Very very informative video, detailed, easy to follow !😃 She must have given you a lot of work. I congratulate you and thank you because it enlightens me on many points.👍👍
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Exactly what I’ve been searching for! You saved me so much hassle and headache’s of trying to find videos that tell me what I need to know about inks! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I feel like this was a class that we very well could have paid money to attend! ❤
This video is a rewatch one. So much to remember. Lots of helpful tips and information. Thank you for putting this together. I never knew about the Picket Fence Hybrid ink. I need that one. TFS💜
Love this video. Very informative. I was trying to take notes so I can have a cheat sheet. I am trying to learn all I can so I don't waste money like I already have.
This video was SO, SO helpful!! I watch lots of videos for inspiration, and there are always a variety of inks used. I never knew why those specific ones were chosen, but now I get it! This video has given me the confidence to choose the correct inks for future projects.
Best video on inks, hands down. Also you aren’t trying to sell us “your” brand. Ran across that a lot trying to figure all this out. Ty for that!!! You did an amazing job.
Fantastic video! I am going to share your link to this video on my blog to help other paper crafters find this wonderful compilation of ink information.
Very interesting video. I laughed a little when you stated a myth was that pigment inks didn’t blen well - I started stamping over 20 years ago, and we had Colorbox pigment inks in a petal pad made that way so that we could use for ink blending! I also wanted to note that specifically Ranger Archival inks are labeled permanent AND waterproof, and I have found that label to be correct. I also wanted to caution that rubbing alcohol will cause “crazing” on your acrylic items, such as stamp blocks, MISTI doors, Stampwheel plate, etc, so be very careful when spraying any stamp cleaner on a stamp while it is still mounted that might contain rubbing alcohol. TFS!
Yes, definitely can get a light haze over time from rubbing alcohol on clear hard plastics. I haven’t had an issue yet, but I know that could bother some. 🙂 Isn’t it funny how many myths are out there?! 😆
Your explanations were very clear and helpful. Never thought about using metallic ink with stencils and dark paper. Will be trying that technique soon. Thank you.
Omg what an amazing explanation of inks. I’m fairly new to stamping & watched your tutorial at the beginning of my card making but only had a few inks & just didn’t understand it very well. I now have a collection of all different ink pads but wasnt really knowing which one was for what use. I was so happy to come across yr explanation of inks and their uses again, as I’m now able to understand the many different inks and their uses. This is the best detailed explanation I have seen and I’m very grateful for your thorough but easy to understand guide. Thank you for helping me make sense of what I have and I’m excited to go explore now lol 🎉🎉🎉
I just ran across your video and LOVE it! It provides so much information and some cool techniques as well. I wish this video would have been available when I first started card making. Thanks so much for making this video!
Hi. Thank you for sharing this informative and helpful video. Great stuff and I'd love to see you in action with all of these inks showing the effects and how to attain them. Thanks again. 😃
Just what I've been looking for!! I've been struggling to understand the differences between inks and how to effectively use them. This was so helpful. I've saved this video in my favorites for future use.
I just watched this video. I'm not new to stamping. This is absolutely the most comprehensive video I've ever seen on inking. It is nice to already know the lingo before watching and anyone new can get a great lesson from it. Only thing I've never heard of is Alcohol Lift INK. TY so much for doing this video.
Thank you for all ur hard work on this video! I appreciate this. Very helpful and understandable. I personally would love to see some of those techniques you talked about. Anything different is always fun (different from just regular stamping). I personally would love a video like this all about paper now 😉 I know I have to try and explore myself to see what techniques work best or better for this or that…but having a video like this is 100 times more helpful for me. So…Thank You again ✌🏽
To not waste money, information, and understanding of materials is paramount . So running into your presentation was most important to me in succeeding well in stamping, etc. It is quite a lot of information to take in and to absorb the differences in artwork or identify just what I wanted to achieve. This can easily be missed to the viewer or stamper when we see beautiful artwork and are able to recognize exactly what material was used and how. Thank you for the enlightening. I'm happy to follow!
What an excellent video in explaining the difference types of inks. ❤ I’ve been doing this a long time and I still learned something new. Great job!!!! 😁
Terrific video full of the most comprehensive information anyone needs about inks! I have not looked over all of your videos, it's possible you have already done a video on this, but here is what I'd like to learn. I still struggle with getting a good result when heat embossing but I'm getting better! I heat emboss on regular cardstock and watercolor paper. I think the biggest questions I have are how much pressure to use with inks as well as embossing pads, have I used enough versamark or possibly too much, and which type of powder should I use, meaning regular, fine, ultra fine, etc. Thank goodness for the Misti! Thank you again for an excellent video! 🌟
Hi Lori! These two videos might be helpful: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LXtA8iIDmNs.html and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_ushrrhEAH8.html 🙂 You can heat emboss on most kinds of paper. The smoother the surface of the paper, the easier it is to heat emboss with. I always ink up my stamp really well with VersaMark and really press it down to make sure all the ink transfers. Most of my powders are super fine because they work well for stamp outlines and sentiments. I also have some ultra thick which I use for heat embossing large solid stamps.
This is amazing. You are sooooooo awesome and such a great teacher. I am new to stamping and you have been helping me sooooooooooo much. Thank you sooooooooo much. I just recently found you and subscribed to your channel. Thanks to you, I just bought a mini Misti and am excited to use it. I really appreciate all your guidance all you show and share with us.
OMG, what a wonderful video, very easy to follow and having the examples with the labels was perfect. I’m new to stamping and haven’t purchased many inks yet so this will help so much. Thanks for sharing. 🥰💕
I agree you are an awesome teacher. I have been learning a lot from you. I would love to see more on the distress line. You are much easier to watch then most.
Very informative video. I’m not done watching yet but I just have to share this. One of your comment was that a certain type of ink has a tendency to bead up on you stamps. What I heard was that they beat up on you stamps. I was thinking what? Then you said so you might have to stamp again.
I wish this had been around when I had started started stamping many years back. I learned by trial and error. Learned there are new inks i want to try.
Wow, this is an amazing explanation of all the different ink types and techniques. I will have to add this link to my videos when I get questions. I've been doing this crafty inky life for a long time I never released that the silicone mat vs the glass surface was the reason for the slightly different results when smooshing. Amazing point. Love this video and your clear, concise style of explaining everything. I'm a new fan of yours ❤
This is a brilliant video. Thank you so much. By far the best explanation of inks I have seen. Wish I had seen this before I wasted so much money on different inks.
Great video! For stamp cleaning I mix water and a few drops of dawn dish soap and a small amount of Isopropyl alcohol into a sprayer and spray it onto some Rub-it-scrub-it (cut into 2x2 squares) and it cleans off any kind of inks from my stamps, even StazOn. I have used this for the last 20 yrs and it has never let me down!
Very I for.ative. After 25 years of stamping I've chosen a watermark ink, a black pigment and a white pigment ink, a black dye ink, distress oxides and 2 lines of dye inks to give a broad spectrum of colors for ink layering, plus a gold pigment. This allows me to use any medium on a given project. Watercolor markers and select alcohol markers expand the possibilities. It's mind boggling when you look at the offerings. Best advice: Don't get caught in full set syndrome. Choose colors you like and reinkers. You can always add more.
This is the best video about inks that I have seen. I’m new at all of this so I greatly appreciate it and I even took notes! Very Informative! Thank you!
WOW!! This is the most indepth video I have found on ink! I love it, but was not expecting it to be so great!! This is a video that you have to watch multiple times to try to absorb it all!! Excellent job Charlene!! I will be going through your videos in depth to see what all I can learn from you my dear!! And you have a gazillion!! 😂❤ thanks for all your hard work!!
Excellent video with loads of information! I'm sure I'll be referring back to this one in the future. Thank you for putting together this wonderful and comprehensive resource!
So informative!! Thank you so much. I always thought you couldn’t mix the different inks. When you are new to stamping it’s overwhelming and stressful thinking if you grab the wrong ink you are going to mess up your project. Great job 👍❤️
I would appreciate the video for you to make explaining the water getting under the sealed portion and pulling the ink out. I cannot picture what you mean and would like to see a demonstration about this. So much information for a newbie here---whew! Need to watch and write things down next time. Thank you for being so knowledgeable.
Thank you for putting out such a comprehensive video - I wish I knew all this when I came back to stamping last summer! I would love to see another video on the distress inks as I'm very intrigued with them and would like to eventually add them to my small collection - GREAT JOB! Just found our channel last week and have been loving all your videos!
I am only 15 minutes into the video, and I can't wait to comment. First of all this is a MUST SEE video for anyone just starting out with inks! Oh how I wish I had your video a few years back! I have Hero Hues Reactive Inks, and I had no idea they are a hybrid ink. I used to have brushes for each line of inks I had, now I just separate color families and dye and pigment inks. Well I've been sharing my dye brushes with Hero Arts Reactive inks. Do you think I've contaminated anything? I will obviously wash some brushes and now dedicate those to HH inks only. Also from what I'm understanding even though HH are hybrid, I should not share brushes with my Distress Oxides. Is that correct? You're an excellent teacher and I'll probably be back with another comment or question when I finish the video! Thank you so much!
You are so sweet. Thank you! I personally do not worry too much about ink pad contamination. When you use your blending brushes you are picking up ink and it's unlikely you are depositing much, if any, onto the ink pad. I also used to use different brushes for different types of ink. Now I use the same brushes for dye, pigment, and hybrid inks. I have one brush for each color family and I make sure to wipe my brush off really well after I am done. Oxide inks tend to leave more residue on brushes than dye inks, so some people like to keep different brushes for them, but it's totally a personal preference. 🙂
Great video! I learned so much from you. I would love to see a video on how to use the Perfect Pearls. I have a few but nothing like I would have if I knew more about them.
This video was so thorough, clear, well-organized, and easy to follow. The different types of ink pads can be confusing when you're just starting out and you really helped break everything down so well -- just an excellent resource for those of us new to paper crafting/stamping. Now I know I want dye inks but find myself rather overwhelmed by the number of brands that offer a line of them, I don't know how to choose! Do you (or any of my fellow viewers) have a brand that you prefer/recommend?
Thank you so much! 🙂 It can definitely be overwhelming. Ink choices really differ from person to person. I always suggest buying an ink pad or two from a few different brands you are interested in so that you can try them out. For dye inks I have Distress Ink, Simon Says Stamp, and Concord & 9th. I hear good things about Catherine Pooler and Gina K. Good luck! ❤️
WOW! You are so good at explaining all the information, you make it so easy to follow and understand. OK I thought the pearl powders were just for mixing with water and using to splatter card fronts, as that is all I have seen others do. I would love to see some more of the ways you use them. My "gateway drug" way heat embossing way back in the early 1990's ;) Thank you for all your videos and I will check out your channel membership. Thank you for all your time and work you put into your videos.
Hello From New Zealand! I just loved this video and it was one that every crafter should take a look at. You answered soooooo many questions I have had about various inks, and it will just keep on giving and giving. You were mentioning that this would be available on your channel and I was wondering when that might be please? Also will this also be available in hard copy that I could download as a great reference? Perhaps you could advise us what the best way to use this as a reference such as some kind of text format or such? When you have a few moments hopefully you could answer my couple of questions please. Thank you for such an amazing video. This has helped me in a million and one ways. I appreciate it all so very much. Cheers from Patti in windy Wellington, New Zealand😊
Thank you so much! ❤️ I do have a printable e-book with all of the information available as a perk of channel membership. If you are interested, check out the description for more info on subscribing. 🙂
@@DreamCraftCreate Thank you so very much…..I don’t know how I did not catch that. So sorry! I will go and check it out now. By the way I am so loving your videos. I only found you on You Tube last week, and I am so happy that I found you. Your presentations are so lovely, and so well explained. Take care and be well, safe and Happy. Hugs from Patti in New Zealand
Tailored expressions die ink pads are non-water reactive. You cannot use them with water. And they use foam pads not felt pads. They have a few hybrid inks that can be used with copic markers.
All water based dye ink is water reactive. I will say though that Taylored Expressions’ formulation is made to be more permanent and is considered an archival ink so once dry it’s not going to react. Their dye ink may be solvent based and not water based. I wasn’t able to find any information on that specifically. I don’t own any Taylored Expressions ink pads so the information I included about the pad type is from their website. The ink introduction blog post as well as Taylor’s RU-vid video states specifically that the ink pads are made with a high quality felt pad. Their Oreo and Chocolate Truffle (black and brown) ink pads are non-water reactive hybrid inks. You can find the information here: blog.tayloredexpressions.com/blog/2016/05/31/get-inky-with-new-coordinating-ink-from-taylored-expressions/ 🙂
Great video! I always seem to have trouble with inks and my clear stamps. They just don’t come out crisp. What is the best ink to use with clear stamps?
Hi Barb. 🙂 Are you using photopolymer or acrylic stamps? I find that acrylic stamps are a little more difficult to work with. What type of inks are you using? VersaFine Claire is my go to for crisp stamping, but I use lots of different inks. Have you tried conditioning your stamps before you use them? If you rub a white eraser over your stamp or rub the back of your hand over your stamp it tends to help. You also can use clear embossing ink on the stamp, rub it off, then put your regular ink on to stamp with. ❤️
Hi Donna! Any water-based dye ink should work with Gamsol. Essentially anything you can use with Copic markers you can use with Gamsol. Gamsol is considered a mild solvent. 🙂
Yes, I believe it is safe for all stamp types. I found a video that does some myth busting here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-24Y_0OJXtts.html 🙂
Hi! I’m not sure what type of blender pen you have. If it’s a blender pen for alcohol inks it might blend pigment inks, though my guess is that it would not be good for the tip of the pen. Let me know if that’s not what you are talking about. 🙂
Hi Charlene! I commented much earlier regarding your video of everything about inks and questioned you how I could receive the book that you were speaking about. You commented back and told me to click JOIN, Burt I completely looked for JOIN all over the description on that video and found absolutely nothing. Can you please tell me where to find the JOIN LINK. I just cannot find it sorry to say Charlene. Is it called by a different name possibly. I also clicked on CHANNEL and there is nothin posted there at all either. What am I missing please. I would really love to receive the Ebook even if I have to pay for it please. Thank you very much Charlene. Patti in New Zealand
Hi Patti. Sorry about that. Are you using an iPhone by chance? I’ve read that sometimes the join option does not show for iPhone users. Here is a link: ru-vid.com/show-UCoIJQYu4hjbw5R331VoE8owjoin 🙂 Hopefully that works!
@@DreamCraftCreate Hello again Charlene. No, I do not have an iPhone, just an iPad, but I will check out the link that you sent below your reply to me. Thank you very much, Charlene, you are such a treasure. I so appreciated your reply. Sincerely, Patti in New Zealand.
Hello again dear Charlene! It worked right away with the link you gave me. I appreciate that so very much. I see there is a monthly fee and that is perfectly fine and I am very happy about that, however I will have to just wait a couple of weeks because my monthly pension check will not arrive until April 4th, ,so I can join the moment my pension check comes if hat is okay with you. I am very excited about this Charlene, andI am already learning so much from all the videos of yours that I am watching, so I thank you a million ties over. This will be absolutely amazing, Thank you for being so patient with me dear heart….and I am truly as can be so happy that I found you on the Internet. Your videos and presentations are perfect to the ‘T’. It is evening her in New Zealand (huge time difference from America). I am all set up right now to be making some die cuts tonight with my Easter dies, so I must get busy with that. Thank you so much for your expertise and your amazing talents. God bless you, truly Charlene! Hugs from Patti in New Zealand, and again thank you for sending the link. It worked just fine, so I will catch up with you on April4th!!!! Patti 💕 🙏 💕
