Background using Glossy Card & Chalk Ink

[cmcveigh]

Well.... as they say: learn something new everyday. Maybe everybody else already knows this, but I just discovered it.....

I did DTP using ColorBox Chalk ink in Aquamarine on one and a blue on another. I was trying for an "ocean-like" backdrop for one of my new Tall Ship stamps.

I just kept stamping all over glossy white card stock with the ink pad. Since chalk ink is quite juicy, it was wet for a long time. Well.. I left it to dry, and now it's been a week. It still was leaving chalk on my fingers when I touched it. So, I thought: try buffing it with a spent paper towel. Amazing! The dull dry chalk part rubbed right off onto the paper towel, leaving the gorgeous deep aquamarine and blue inks colorizing the gloss, and it is glossy again. Very cool look. Depending on the juice and the strokes, most of the sections looks like a form of marble.

Now, it should be able to take a deeper color dye ink or VersaFine as an overprint.

Neat!!<3

[Inky Whiskers]

Cool!!! Thanks for sharing. :D

[andreasscraps]

Wow, sounds beautiful!

[StamPoor]

That sounds like something I want to try. I have lots of glossy cardstock.

Ingrid

[TimeforT]

showing my ignorance here, but who makes glossy cardstock?

[stampin stacy]

Marco's is who I bought mine from at a convention. FYI photo paper is not the same thing and reacts differently to many techniques.

[StamPoor]

Stacy, thanks for mentioning that glossy photo paper reacts differently than the cardstock. Actually, I have found there are differences among the glossy cardstocks, too, depending on the manufacturer. I have some glossy cardstock from ten years ago that used to give fantastic results back then with my inkjet printer and stamping inks, but apparently some of the new inks have properties that no longer work as well with this particular cardstock. Now I have to test things out on scraps first to see how they react.

Ingrid

[Purnima]

Yes, white glossy cardstocks do react differently. I think that some have sort of a plastic finish, while others have a clay finish. (Yep, clay!) The clay ones seem to be absorbent, while the other seems non-porous.

I am not an expert, but I just thought I'd toss that in the info heap for any who'd like to follow up on it with a real Paper Person. I know there are some web sites out there that tell all about it. I've run into one, which is why I know that little bit. I'm sorry, but I don't remember where it was...:confused:

hugs!
Purnima

[andreasscraps]

I use King James Cast Coat from Marco's and it works wonderfully. I did this technique last night and I LOVE how it came out! I'll post a pic in a day or so. The new PageSage DVD Rubber Paper Scissors has Judi Watanabe showing the technique with Alabaster ink stamped images (acting like a resist) first then covered with other chalk inks and buffed to shine. AWESOME!!!

[Etha]

Cool idea!
I don't think I have EVER gotten any pigment or chalk ink to dry on glossy. Frustrates the heck out of me :) I tried a brayer technique with a kaleidacolor pigment pad on glossy, after 3 hours it wiped right off leaving barely a trace LOL.

[cmcveigh]

I finally got around to stamping my new background cardstock and have posted the results to the Gallery.

Glossy Background :: Tall Ship (http://www.rubberstampchat.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1658)

Another neat thing to share: I'm always looking for a nice gold ink, and get tired of the only option for a really good looking gold being pigment ink - having to heat set if you don't want to emboss, etc. Well, on this card, I used Pallette ink in cognac, and the chemistry worked such that it came out looking like Antique Gold and that was another happy surprise. :clap:

[Inky Whiskers]

The color in the background came out much more intense than I thought it would! Way cool!!!

Have you tried the Brilliance metallics? Galaxy Gold is very rich & bright and the Brilliance pigment inks are fast drying hybrids that can be used on vellum & glossy card stock as well as uncoated papers. I used it on an altered book and it looked just like antique gilding on both the leather like cover and the edges of the pages. :D

I think I have a good pix of that book. I made it for my son when he had an oral presentation as John Wycliffe to do last year in school. I'll post it in my gallery, if I can find it. :p

[rscowtown1]

pigment ink on glossy will stay wet for years, i have some cards 10 years old that still smear; kaleidacolor is dye not pigment and it always dries quick for me. it makes beautiful backgrounds for stamping trees in black to make sunsets, sunrises, etc.

Thanks for the colorbox info :)

[cmcveigh]

Have you tried the Brilliance metallics? Galaxy Gold is very rich & bright ...

At your urging, I re-visited my collection of Brilliance inks. In the past, I never seemed to have much luck using them - especially the graphite black.

But yesterday, I pulled out the Gold and tried it on black glossy cardstock and WOW!! You're right, it did pop with brilliance. I used three colors on black glossy to make a Thank You card for my sister using the stamp images that she designed and it came out great. Of course, the scan isn't as pretty as the real thing, but it's close. I uploaded it to the Gallery. Thank You Card (http://www.rubberstampchat.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1786&size=big&cat=&ppuser=225)

Thanks, Jenna!

[Inky Whiskers]

You are most welcome, Cheryl! :D

[suedoenimh]

Have you tried drying the chalk ink with your heat gun? It might not dry as glossy as you'd like, but it will dry!