quick Ink comparisons and a cheap alternative
There are a lot of products on the market for paper crafters to choose from and knowing which ink pad to use with what medium can be confusing. I thought I'd show you a few pictures of several common inks plus a very thrifty alternative if you use a lot of Black ink like I do. Lindsay over at the Frugal Crafter gives a very in depth comparison of inks. Lindsay however doesn't demonstrate my thrifty find!
First Memento ink , Second Archival and Third in the make your own ink pad by dylusions
Printer ink pad with a text stamp:
First Memento ink , Second Archival and Third in the make your own ink pad by dylusions
Printer ink!
A few years ago I went on a hunt for good quality low pricing for refills for my black ink pads. (BTW this is fabulous in your printer for printing digitals!) Spending 6.00 om 1/2 oz of ink is just crazy!! So I tried printer refill ink, why not, it works great in my ink jet printer! This ink is sold by cartridge pool on ebay for about 19.00 a liter!!( this is not a paid for or sponsored advertisement - just a great product at a great price- with customer service to match) Just so that you know, I did spend a lot of time trying find an ink that stated it was water proof and fade resistant. I read a lot of ink listings and tried this product. You can use any kind of ink jet printer ink - but you will have varying results' I have about 5 other brands of ink to prove it. I prefer the "pigment inks" they are not the same as our syrupy pigment inks for stamping, they are not emboss-able, but they work beautifully for traditional stamping.
These were my testers
Spectrum Noir alcohol ink - yellow
Spectrum Aqua - orange
Distress - pink
First test, Memento Ink:
Good - Alcohol
Bad -Aqua
Good - Distress
Second test with the Ranger Archival
Good for alcohol and aqua pens
Not good for distress pens
Third test:
Good -distress
Good- alcohol
Fair- Aqua
Printer ink pad with a text stamp:
Printer ink pad with detail image stamp:
I would love to have one pad I could use with everything, but that is not going to happen. That is because of the natures of the inks and the mediums.
At least I have been able to narrow things down however to two for paper: - printer ink for everything except water coloring, for that I use Archival.
I thought I'd leave you with these to play with today
Tomorrow I will show you how I juiced up my Distress Markers!
Thank for stopping by,
Ginny M
Comments
Paper Hugs,
Jan
I have yet to have my Versafine dry out, it lasts longer than any pad I know. Love embossing stamps,mother. You can use any sort of ink with it. Have tree shades of it now, the deep blue is magnificent.
Shaz in Oz,x
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