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Fun with Opalite Ink Pads

By Lori Ronnerud-Guimond
Crafty Cruisers
Intermediate Stamping Team Designer

In my humble opinion, I believe the Opalite Ink Pads were designed to be used with dark cardstock. This is how they show off their shimmering colors the best.  Of course, the scanner cannot pick up the real beauty of these ink pads.  So, you’ll just have to get one to play with and my guess is that you’ll fall in love with them just as I have.  You can stamp on light colored cardstock with these ink pads and still see the image and shimmer even when brayering over it with another color. It just isn’t as obvious as when used on dark cardstock.

Card #1 ~ Normal Stamping with Opalite Ink

Supplies

• Winter Whimsy stamp set (TAC)
• Brushed Christmas stamp set (TAC)
• Cypress Frost Opalite Ink Pad (Tsukineko~TAC)
• Palette Black Noir Hybrid Ink  (TAC)
• Scarlet Cardstock (TAC)
• Black Cardstock  (TAC)
• MonoAdhesive (Tombow)

Instructions

1.    Fold half sheet of Scarlet cardstock in half (5 ½” x 4 ¼”).

2.    Tear quarter sheet of Black cardstock in half (5 ½” x 2 ⅛”)

3.    Stamp Christmas tree from winter whimsy randomly on strip of black cardstock with cypress green ink.

4.    Apply Mono Adhesive on back of black cardstock and attach to card front. 

5.    Stamp greeting on bottom of scarlet cardstock, centering it if desired.

6.    Stamp saying of your choice inside card.

Card #2 ~ Brayering Over the Opalite Ink

Supplies

• Dance With Your Spirit stamp set (TAC)
• Orchid Ice Opalite Ink Pad (Tsukineko~TAC)
• Canyon Creek Chalk Ink Pad (TAC)
• Shipping Tag (Office Depot)
• Brayer (Speedball ~ TAC)
• Fibers

Instructions

1.    Place various words from Dance with Your Spirit on an acrylic block.

2.    Ink up images with Orchid Ice Opalite Ink.

3.    Stamp onto tag and let dry for 1-2 minutes

4.    Ink up brayer with Canyon Creek chalk ink. 

5.    Brayer over entire tag and allow to dry.

6.    Add fibers to tag.

7.    You can stamp another image on top of this if desired using Black Noir Palette Hybrid ink.

Card #3 ~ Direct to Paper with Opalite Ink Pad

Supplies

• Old Truck stamp set (TAC)
• Alphabet (TAC-1174) stamp set (TAC)
• Winter Rust Opalite Ink Pad (Tsukineko~TAC)
• Sterling Silver Opalite Ink Pad (Tsukineko~TAC)
• Palette Black Noir Hybrid Ink  (TAC)
• VersaMark ink pad (Tsunikeo ~ TAC)
• Black Detail Embossing Powder
• X-Static Pad (TAC)
• Bullet Tip Fantastix artist’s tool (Tsukineko~TAC)
• Terra Cotta Cardstock (TAC)
• Black Cardstock  (TAC)
• Heat Tool (Milwaukee~*TAC)
• Aqua-Flow Brush  (Royal~TAC)
• MonoAdhesive (Tombow)

Instructions

1.    Fold half sheet of Terra Cotta cardstock in half (5 ½” x 4 ¼”).

2.    Use X-static pad on piece of black cardstock (3 ⅞” x 4”).

3.    Ink up stamp with VersaMark and stamp onto black cardstock.

4.    Apply black detail embossing powder to image.

5.    Heat with Milwaukee heat tool.

6.    Bleach inside truck image with Aqua-Flow brush that has bleach in it. Let dry.

7.    Take Fantastix art tool and tap it on the Sterling Frost Opalite Ink Pad to load it with ink.

8.    Apply ink to the bleached out area.

9.    Take Winter Rust Opalite Ink Pad and rub directly to outside edges of embossed image.

10.           Tear off bottom edge of black cardstock.

11.           Apply Mono Adhesive on back of black cardstock and mount to terra cotta cardstock. 

12.           Stamp greeting on bottom of terra cotta cardstock using alphabet (TAC-1174).

13.           Stamp saying of your choice inside card.

Have fun stamping!

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