Jo's Workshop - making your own inkpad WOW

I had the privilege to attend another of Ro Rice’s workshops at CJ Cardcrafts in Edgely, Stockport.  I always enjoy Jo’s workshops learning new techiques plus using new products and this was no different, in fact when she said about making our own inkpads and started going through it I just wasn’t getting how it would work or why you would do it and then all of a sudden it made sense and I was WOW’d.  This is such an exciting technique which I do plan to use probably a fair amount of time!

 

First cut a piece of the cut and dry felt (must be felt, NOT foam), ensuring large enough for the size of stamp you are using and using your archival ink stamp the image onto the side with felt (the other side won't work)

 

Using your choice of Distress re-inkers and a fine paint brush 'paint' the ink onto the image. Doesn't matter that it bleeds out, just put the various colours where you want them on the image.

 

Once finished adding your colours take you stamp and place onto the felt lining up to the image you stamped and then stamp to your heart's content.

 We used a small dragonfly stamp, cut them out and placed on the card which we matted and layered with a bit of ribbon, lovely isn't it.....

The other card we made we used watercolour card and mixed the re-inkers with a little water and then 'painted' onto the card, loved this effect.  The circle was 'bleached' out by using the new circular belnding tools with a clean pad dabbed in water. Hold it in place for approx 20 secs and there you go, beautiful isn't it.......

A huge thanks to Jo for sharing her skills - why don't you look at her blog, link to the right of this page... well worth it 

Thanks for stopping by XxX