Hello there,
I wanted to try a little banner style card with this set and came up with this card.
I simply stamped and folded the hexagons for the banner securing just the centre one with dimensionals so there was still movement but so they didn't flip over all the time ;-)
sentiment is from the
Sweet Essentials set, this sentiment actually reads "hello, baby" but I just inked the "hello" section using a marker :-)
OK, so top tip time! So, I love the new
Stampin' Up! Ink Pads, they give fantastic coverage when stamping and your images are so much bolder. That said I found when they are new they are just too "juicy" and I was having trouble getting certain images to not bleed into the white areas! I have found this to be a tad frustrating-- please see below for an example of what I mean...
Now, I know you could blot some of the ink away but I don't have all the re-inkers and was worried if I over did this my ink pad would be too dry instead ;-) Soooo I came up with a compromise....
I simply took my
Bone Folder and scraped the bottom half of my ink pad, several times, and pushed some of the excess ink to the top half of my pad, this way I can use the dryer bottom section to stamp and when I have used it some more I can re-distribute the ink back over my pad and not have any waste!!
this is what it looks like, it does stay like this too even once it's stored* for a few days (*stored flat, don't know about if you keep them on their ends as I don't keep mine like that) obviously if it evens out simply re-scrape the pad.
and this is the difference when stamping with the "fixed" ink pad...
Well, I hope this helps if you are having the same troubles with your ink pads :-)
Thanks for visiting today,
Stampin' Hugs,
