2024 Topic 5: Ink Pads {by Etsuko Noguchi} on the PaperArtsy Blog

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Ink is an essential material for working with paper crafts and sometimes greatly influences the quality of the work. And nowadays there are many different types of ink available. Today I'm going to show you a piece using the Distress Oxide ink that you're all familiar with, with explanations, and I using Gwen Lafleur's lovely new stamps. I hope you enjoy it.

Here I worked with Oxide inks on Gwen's wonderful new stamps. I describe what worked and what didn't work so well as a result.

To start I picked Beautiful Gwen's new stamp sets - EGL40 the Florentine patters and EGL41 the medallions and birds - as these sets are useful for the majority of jobs as described in PaperArsty People Facebook Gwen's demo in April and on this site here in more detail. And I picked Ranger Distress Oxide worn lipstick, wilted violet, salty ocean, cracked pistachio, shabby shutters and salvaged patina. Also I used ranger Archival Ink Cobalt and VersaFine Clair Nocturne and some 3D gloss paste, Modeling paste.

The first, these four colours (Ranger Distress Oxide worn lipstick, wilted violet, salty ocean, and salvaged patina) rubbed onto a craft sheet, sprayed with water and then dyed over it the book pages. Here, instead of filling the whole area with OXIDE, blank spaces were left like puddles.

I wanted to test the oxide effect and the translucency of the paper by applying resin on top of the dyed paper, so I did it.

Before deciding on the paper for the previous photo, I tried using old book papers and dictionary papers, but the journal background was going to be a bright colour and I liked these, but when I fitted them into the background they looked a bit dirty, so I decided to forfeit them.

The motifs I decided on for the EGL41 bird and medallion on the front and back covers were printed on the earlier resin-covered paper, I tried Ranger Embossing Powder Black and Gold, but the motifs were hard to make out as shown in the picture below, so I tried Ranger Embossing Powder Clear on Versafine Nocturne and liked it, so I decided to go for it.

The central bird and medallion I have chosen for the covers.

Images of EGL40 and EGL41 stamp sets were embossed in Ranger Embossing Powder Black on the same paper as the front cover to create the journal windows.

 

Background paper made on Smoothy (Heavyweight) A4 white stamping card with Ranger Distress Oxide - salty ocean, peacock feathers, salvaged patina and shabby shutters, then I used the PaperArtsy brayer on that background with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Snowflake to reduce colour slightly Finish.

EGL41 was randomly stamped on top of that background using shabby shutters and broken china.

The background paper was cut into six 4.5" square pieces, each textured with Gwen's stencil using 3D transparent paste.

Then on each sheet of paper a window was made using PaperArtsy Dies - Tulip, Grunge Flower #1, Full Heart, Scallop Flower. (These dies also include out of stock).

And I distressed around the cards using some paper distresser.

Base paper made from salvaged patina, salty ocean and peacock feathers for the embellishment around the window.

I used EGL41 stamp and circle cut.

The downloaded image was cut with a circle punch and coloured with broken china and vintage photo.

Next, the hinges for the cards were made using two different types of embossing powder on acetate with EGL41 stamp.

It was really shining but I couldn't get a good photo of it, even though it often shines when the subject doesn't want it to shine.

Now I will show you the completed journal in one step. Let's start with the cover!

The paper left over from the embellishment was trimmed around the window and the embellishment placed.

And continues.

The back cover.

Finally, I will show you a picture of a picture held up to the light, and this will become our quarter's theme 'Hidden' and the Die-cut motifs will emerge.

These are with our current topic of 'Inks' and quarter Theme of 'Hidden' with Gwen's beautiful EGL40 and EGL41 stamp sets.  In the Theme 'Hidden' I was very happy to be able to use the dies I got first before. And it was a little difficult to clearly show the effect of Distress Oxide Inks in the photos, but I hope this helps to convey the message and enjoy it. Thank you so much for visiting here.

Etsuko xxx

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