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It's all about inks this week and today I'm starting us off with pigment inks!
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A few helpful notes about pigment inks:
- They are a thicker/creamier consistency type ink that dries slower and contains glycerin, which allows embossing powder to stick to the stamped image for heat embossing.
- Pigment inks provide great inking/coverage on both rubber and clear photopolymer stamps.
- Pigment inks (as opposed to dye, which absorb quickly into the paper surface) tend to sit on the paper surface and are more opaque.
- Most pigment inks will not dry on non-porous surfaces and must be heat embossed to seal the ink to the surface. However, there are several fast-drying pigment inks, i.e. Brilliance, that are designed dry on non-porous surfaces, such as glossy/coated card stocks.
- Pigment inks are available in a wide range of colors and metallic hues; colors tend to be very richly saturated and stamp very crisply, without feathering.
- Can be applied "direct to paper", blended on card stock, blended directly on the stamp (with sponge daubers or other similar applicator).
- Should be heat set/thoroughly dry before using tape runner or dry adhesives over top.
- Once heat set/fully dry, images stamped with (most) pigment inks can be colored with alcohol markers and/or water-based coloring mediums.
- Work well for stamp "kissing". See the video. :)
Hope this gave you some helpful insights for ways to use pigment inks and what they are especially good at! :)
You can see the entire range of pigment inks we offer right HERE.
Happy Mundane!
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