Spring has Sprung with Gerbera Daisies!

Hello Friends! It's Cheryl with the Inkon3 Creative Team here to show you a fun Spring inspired card featuring the new Gerbera Daisies Stamp set!

First I stamped several daisies from the Gerbera Daisy Stamp Set using Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink, then I fussy cut the daisies and then colored with copic markers.

Next, I masked off the sides of the card using low-tack tape, and created a bright yellow background using Bee-Sting Yellow Atelier Ink, leaving the tape on, I used some Marigold Orange water color, and diluted it with water. I dipped a paintbrush into the water color and splattered the orange onto the yellow background. Let the water color dry.

Then I removed the tape and then created a border with a simple striped washi-tape.  Next, I adhered the daisies as shown in the picture above. 

For the sentiment, I die cut a rectangle and then I stamped "Hello BeYOUtiful" from the BeYOUtiful clear stamp set using juicy clear embossing ink. Next, I sprinkled some Arctic White Ultra Fine Embossing Powder onto the sentiment and tapped off any excess powder. Then I heat-set the embossing powder. 

Adhere the sentiment onto the card and frame with the striped washi tape!

Products Used:

Gerbera Daisy Stamp Set

BeYOUtiful Stamp Set

Blackout Waterproof Detail Ink

Juicy Clear Embossing Ink

Arctic White Ultra Fine Embossing Powder

Atelier Ink - Bee Sting Yellow

Atelier Watercolor/Re-inker - Marigold Orange

 

Thinking Of You, BeYOUtiful!

  Hi and Happy 2021! 

It’s Erica back on the Ink On 3 blog, for the first time in 2021. It’s been a bit of a rough start to the year to be honest, so I decided to make a ‘thinking of you’ card, as I figured I am not the only one who’s feeling like 2021 is saying ‘hold my beer’.

First off I did some ink blending with the goooooorgeou Atelier inks in Bee Sting Yellow, Marigold Orange, Sweet Petunia Pink and Marilyn Red using Life Changing Blender Brushes on Bristol Smooth paper. This combo has become quite a fave of mine for a variety of reasons, the main one being that it’s absolutely beautiful. I love it! 

These panels are actually one big piece that I cut up after ink blending over the whole thing. I love ink blending, and it’s always good to have some background panels done for when you need to make a card quickly! 

On the slightly smaller panel, I stamped up the big flower from the BeYOUtiful set with Blackout Detail ink and then Embossing ink. On top of these I sprinkled Clear Gloss embossing powder and set that with the heat gun. I did use a MISTI for the stamping to make sure the flower images were really solid. 

This panel I then layered up with the other one, but in different colour order. The reason I did this was to create some contrast and interest. 

To finish off this card I ended up using a diecut from Hero Arts that says Thinking Of You. I cut it out of white card stock three times, and then a fourth time in black card stock, and I layered these up to give the card some dimension. On top of this I heat embossed it with clear gloss embossing powder to give it a puffy sticker look. 

This word die I then glued down on the card with liquid glue and with that, the card was done. I contemplated adding some black gem stones or sequins, but if you can believe it, I decided against it. *GASP* I know.. 

That’s it from me for today! I hope you were inspired by this post, and will try this design for yourself. 

Lot of love and happy crafting from Erica

Hey Gorgeous!

Hey gorgeous!

It's Erica back on the Ink On 3 blog today with a one-layer card. Which is not my forte at all, but it's good to stretch your creative muscles and step outside of your comfort zone. Ok, not all the time, but sometimes for sure. 

The stamp I have used for this card is a new-to-me, Hey Gorgeous. I stamped it up on Copic friendly card stock with Blackout Detail ink and then coloured it in with various Copic markers. My intent was to give the girl a nice tan, but the poor thing ended up looking like she's been cooking on a tanning bed far too long! 

Her hair I did a bit like mine, it's sort of a brown to light brown to some highlights and then a big blue hat on top. I do happen to have a big blue hat too... Did I just put myself on a card? Eh, it happens, right? While I had the Hey Gorgeous stamp out, I also stamped it up on masking paper. After fussy cutting this out, I placed it on top of the coloured image.

I have used a stencil for the background, and this I sprayed liberally with Pixie Spray first. To create a colourful backdrop to the card I ink blended Bee Sting Yellow, Goddess Green and Peacock Blue all over it. By going lightly over some of the yellow with the green, it created a lime green which was lovely. I did the same with the green going into the blue, but heavier, and the result was a teal colour. I used a different Life Changing Blender Brush for each colour so the going back and forth was easy peasy. 

When the ink blending was done, I simply stamped up the 'Gorgeous' from the Hey Gorgeous stamp with Blackout Detail Ink and the card was finished!

Well... unless I go back and add some sequins that is. You never know, with this sequin-oholic. 

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you like the card and found some inspiration here today! 

Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica 

  

Making Your Own Patterned Paper with Erica

Hi guys!

It's Erica back on the Ink On 3 blog today. Sadly due to some unforeseen circumstances, cough cough (covid-19) I have not had the latest release yet. I was holding out and holding out as we sporadically get mail here in Spain still, but no luck.

Instead I've grabbed my beloved Magical Unicorn stamp set again BUT don't roll your eyes and groan "oh man, she ALWAYS use that one". I mean, I do, I love it. However, for these I have used some of the smaller images and made my own patterned paper with the help of the Atelier inks!

I do love a nice patterned paper but have a terrible habit of hoarding it instead of using it. It's madness, really. So, I decided to make my own so I can make as many as I want, whenever I want!

I lined up my Atelier inks in the order I wanted to use them: Bee Sting Yellow, Marigold Orange, Marilyn Red, My Jam Purple, Peacock Blue and Goddess Green. The photo below is from when I was swatching the inks.

On my first panel, I used two of the star stamps and just placed them close together on an acrylic block. Then I stamped from one corner to the opposite one, at an angle, one colour to the next. On the second panel I did them straight across.

I probably added a little bit too much yellow at the top of this one, which lead to not a lot of green at the opposite corner. But oh well, you live and learn.

For the second panel, I used only the clustered stars stamp and stamped horizontally. For more even colour, it would probably be smarter to do the middle line first and then work your way out. If you aren't bothered about that, just stamp away.

I love how these turned out. So fun!

To finish these off, I stamped up 'hugs' in Blackout Detail Ink, with the help of my MISTI. The 'hugs' is from the Bunny Hugs stamp set. When that was dry, I added these to white card bases. It was so tempting to add a little something else, but I wasn't sure exactly what so in the end I decided to keep them as they were. I know, shocker!

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have found some inspiration here today and will look at your stamps with new eyes and step outside the box with me.

Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica

Spotlight on InkOn3 Atelier Inks | Ink Blending - Guest Designer Laura

Hi everyone! It's Laura Volpes and today I am really excited to share my first post as a guest designer for InkOn3! I love both InkOn3 inks and their lovely designs, and for this month I decide to share different ways to use the fabulous Atelier Inks! 

Today we are starting from a classic technique: ink blending!

I used this technique to create both the card background and the stenciled focal point on my white panel. I used Peacock Blue on the card base and Bee Sting Yellow and Goddess Green for the flower. The stencil I used is the wonderful Flora stencil, by InkOn3.

I blended the inks with my domed ink blenders and a finger dauber for the smaller details in the stencil. The inks blend like butter and the thing that was really cool to see is how they build onto themselves: the more you layer them, the richer the color you get! Bee Sting Yellow almost turned to an orang-ey shade, as I was building layers in the center of the flowers!

Of course, I add to add some shimmer, and Liquid Pixie Dust is just the perfect medium for that! So. much. sparkle!

The images and the sentiment are both part of the InkOn3 Fox and Bunny Hugs stamp set. I stamped them with InkOn3 Blackout ink and colored them with Illustrator alcohol markers by Spectrum Noir.

Here is a list of the markers I used:

• Fox: TN8, BO4, BO2, BO1. BG3, BG1. FS5, FS8, FS9
• Bunny: BG7, BG5, BG3, BG1. FS5, FS8, FS9

I glued everything to the card base, raising the front panel on some foam tape, and I finished off the card with some light blue crystals.

Here is also a video for you, showing the InkOn3 Atelier inks in action as well as the whole card making process!

I will catch you guys next week with another post and video!

Have a nice day,

Laura

Planning with Fox & Bunny and other new Inkon3 goodies!

Inkon3 sneaked in some new products and they're pretty awesome! I'll show you how I used the adorable new Fox and Bunny stamps, and the new Leafy Forest Stencil in my planner!

  

First I masked around the rectangle on the bottom of my planner pages and applied Atelier Ink Bee Sting Yellow with a blending tool. Leaving the mask on, overlay the Leafy Forest Stencil over the yellow rectangle and stencil in the leaf pattern using the Atelier Ink Marigold Orange.

On the left page of my planner, I masked around the left-most rectangle, and applied the Marigold Orange Atelier Ink with a blending tool. Then I stamped the month onto the orange background.

Next, I stamped the large image from the Fox & Bunny Hugs Clear stamp set, and the small Fox & Bunny from the Forever Friends Clear Stamp set onto sticker paper. I fussy cut the images and then colored it in with copic markers. Then I adhered the stamps as shown in the pictures above.

Lastly, I used the leaf silhouette stamp and then three dots from the Forever Friends Clear Stamp set to add some accents around the little Fox curled up with the bunny.

Copic Colors Used:

Fox (Oranges): YR68, Y38, Y35, Y32

Fox (White): W1, W0, W000

Bunny: E53, E51, E50, E000

Inkon 3 Products Used:

Fox & Bunny Hugs Clear Stamp Set

Forever Friends Clear Stamp Set

Leafy Forest Stencil

Marigold Orange Atelier Ink

Bee Sting Yellow Atelier Ink

Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink

Atelier Inks water colour backgrounds with Erica

Hi guys!

Today I have three cards to share with you. All of these are made with the re-inkers of the Atelier Inks, and I have used them as water colours, to create rainbow backgrounds.

These cards are a slightly different size, they are 6.5”x3.5”, so slimmer and longer than my usual card size. I thought this size might work better for the look I was after and I do like how they turned out!

The re-inkers I used are Peacock Blue, Goddess Green, Bee Sting Yellow, Marigold Orange and Marilyn Red. I used a palette tray and dropped a bit of each colour into a separate space to keep them from getting contaminated. After taping down each panel, I used a big paint brush and clean water to prep it. Once wet, I swished some colour into the wetness on the panel. Each colour had their own paintbrush for this too, again to avoid colour contamination.














Each panel was done slightly differently, and the one I thought I would like the least, is the one I ended up loving them most. Isn’t that funny? When I was doing it, I was thinking to myself ‘oh well, at least I’m having fun but this is not going to turn out very good’. Little did I know!

When the panels were all dry, I decided to use the ‘Thanks’ word diecut from the Pumpkin Patch coordinating diecut set. However, I wanted each card to be just a little bit different. On one panel I used the diecut directly, then added some height to these by layering two more cut of out white card stock.

As a final flourish I added Liquid Pixie Dust to the letters for sparkle.

Another one had grey and gold ‘Thanks’ cut out and layered up, slightly off-centre.

These were adhered to the card to make it relatively flat. The grey behind the gold highlights it beautifully, without the harshness black would have added. I tried, and it didn’t look quite right.

On the last one I used the diecut on five coloured pieces of card stock, similar to the ones on the panel, and layered these up. The effect is a rainbow when you look closely.

To make these stand out a bit more I added a final layer of black ‘Thanks’ on top.

I also have a video up on my YouTube channel showing the process if you want to see the whole thing in action.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you have enjoyed this post (and video if you watch that) If you are wondering whether to get these inks or not, I’m in the Yes camp for sure. I adore the colours and as you can see, the re-inkers works beautifully as water colours amongst other things!

Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica

Atelier Sand Dollar Tutorial

Hello my fabulous friends! 

It's Kassi here today!

I grew up hiking the mountains and and playing in the sands of Utah. It's a beautiful place, with lots natural diversity from the snow covered ski slopes in the north to Zion and Arches National Parks in the south.  And while I spent my summers boating on Lake Powell,  I was 17 years old before I saw an ocean for the first time. 

When I was in my mid 20's, I was able to spend some time touring the beaches, forests, and waterfalls of Oregon and Washington State with my parents and my camera... and I fell in LOVE.  I ended up moving to a rural town with beautiful ocean beaches less than an hour drive away. The beach is one of my happy places! 

The first year after moving near the ocean, I collected a bunch of sand dollars and made Christmas ornaments to send to my family.... and I've been altering sand dollars ever since!

Want to learn how? I promise, it's easy!

Paper: tissue paper

Stamps: Inkon3 Big Bold Magnolias

Ink: Inkon3 Blackout

Coloring: Inkon3 Atelier Watercolor Inks

Blue- Peacock Blue, Marigold Orange

Green- Goddess Green, Marilyn Red

Yellow- Bee Sting Yellow, Marigold Orange, Twiggy Brown

Other: glitter, ribbon, twine, sand dollar

Let's get started!

Step 1: Stamp your image onto some white tissue paper (you know, that really thin, cheap paper you stuff in gift bags to make them look fancy) using Blackout ink. I suggest putting a scrap piece of paper under the tissue paper... The ink will bleed through, and you want something to absorb it so it doesn't smear anywhere. I also suggest using the MISTI since trying to stamp on thin tissue paper can be tricky. I'm using one of the flowers from Big Bold Magnolias set.

(yes, I know, I usually go with Fadeout and no line coloring... but because of the nature of this paper, lines are just better)

Step 2: Create a watercolor palette by smooshing various Atelier ink pads onto a non-porous surface (I'm using a piece of glass).  

Usually I use alcohol based markers to color on tissue paper, but I wanted to see if the new Atelier inks would work for this.

 What can I say... I like experimenting and seeing just how far I can stretch a product!

Step 3: CAREFULLY color your image by picking up some color using a damp paint and applying it to your image. Tissue paper is VERY thin, and NOT designed to be used with watercolors, so you don't want to over work things, or you might end up tearing it. This is why we want dark lines... It's really hard get any kind of detail or definition on paper that isn't meant to get wet. 

Note: You may have noticed that the blue on my palette is not the same blue as my flower. The Peacock Blue straight from the pad is a bright blue, and not what I wanted for this flower... However, just like other watercolor mediums, you can MIX colors to create new colors!

The swatch labeled "B" is what the blue ink looks like. The "B+o" is the blue with a LITTLE orange.  To get the "B+O", I added a bit more orange to the B+o.   The muted "G+r" is the green ink with a LITTLE red.  Currently there are only 8 colors in the Atelier line.. but you can get countless other colors by mixing! 

Step 4: Fussy cut. You can use the coordinating die if you want, but the more excess paper you have, the harder it is to hide. The idea is to make it look like the tissue paper isn't even there when we are done.. so I prefer fussy cutting. 

Step 5: Prep your sand dollar. If you are using a sand dollar you have picked up off the beach, you are going to want to wash it really well, and get all the sand out. Then let it dry COMPLETELY. If it hasn't sat on the beach long enough to bleach white, you can soak it in a mix of water and bleach for an hour or so, then rinse it in clean water and let it dry in the sun.

If you don't live near a beach, you can often find sand dollars in craft store, or online. 

Some types of sand dollars naturally have holes in them... Mine don't, so I use a hand drill to carefully drill a hole... Sand dollars are soft, and do best if you are gentle with them.

Step 6: Paint a layer of Mod Podge (or other decoupage glue) on the surface of the sand dollar, and quickly lay your image on it. The sand dollar will absorb the glue quickly, so work fast... if areas dry before they adhere to the paper, carefully lift the paper up a bit and get some glue under it and smooth the paper back down.. you want a good seal under the image and around all the edges. 

Once you have it glued on, gently cover the entire surface with a layer of Mod Podge.  Don't over work this... If you do, your colors might start to smear, and your paper will tear. I like to use a make-up edge to do this as bristles of a paint brush might snag or tear the fragile tissue paper. Let it dry completely.

If you are opposed to glitter, feel free to skip this step.... 

Step 7 (optional): Paint on another layer of Mod Podge, and cover in clear/iridescent glitter.  Allow to dry completely, then tap off any loose glitter.

Step 8: Finish by tying a loop of twine through the hole, and adding a bow (or any other embellishments you want)

These look beautiful on a tree, or hanging in a room! They make fabulous gifts, and are a fun way to preserve your travel souvenirs!

If you give this technique a try using Inkon3 products, please share your creation with us our Facebook group, or by using the hashtag #inkon3. We love seeing what you create!

Hugs!
~Kassi