Dye Ink Techniques for Papercrafting Class

1. Dye Ink Techniques for Papercrafting Class Introduction: Hello and welcome to dye ink techniques for paper crafting. My name is Cheryl and I'm going to be teaching you some of my favorite ways to use dye inks in pavement is class. We're gonna be doing more card making, but any of these techniques will go well with junk journaling, art journaling, ATCs. You could even use some of them in scrapbooks or other projects. Let's go take a look at what we're gonna be doing. So these are the cars that were going to be creating in this class. The very first couple are gonna be doing ink backgrounds using different dye inks. One is gonna be with markers, one is going to be with ink pads. These are the markers that I like to use, their Tombow markers, but any dye based ink or I die based marker should work for those techniques. And then for the ink pads, I'm using distressing pads, but again, any dye based ink pads should work for what we're what I'm using those four. We're also going to be doing some direct to stamp techniques and second-generation stamping techniques. And then finally, we're going to combine all of the different techniques that we learned in this class and create another couple of cards with this. So in this class, we're gonna be doing is six cards total. Is. This class comes with a supply list that has pictures of each one of the cards. And this applies use for each one. Those supplies are linked to where you can purchase them if you choose. But it's also a great resource for just what supplies are used for each one of the cards. I'll also have the measurements for each of the pieces for the cards on that same supply list. Now let's go create. 2. Marker Background Technique: The first card we're going to make is this one here. And we're going to use some dye based markers to create the background. But first we're going to need to stamp and emboss the image on the cartilage. Move this out of the way here. I've got a watermark ink pot, ink pad. So this is an ink pad that has some sticky ink that is going to stay sticky for a little while, while we do our embossing on our card base. And because we are using lots of water for creating these backgrounds, I'm doing this all on watercolor paper for my image pieces. Regular card stock does not do well with water. So it's not recommended in any way, shape, or form for doing backgrounds that have lots of water on them, you could use a mixed media paper, that one will be okay for water. But I chose to use some watercolor paper for today. Let's get our powder here and I'm embossing it with white. If you emboss it with clear, sometimes the water and the ink kinda seeps under that embossing and it has a completely different look. So I've chose to do white so that I have a crisp white flower image on the card. I'm using a heat gun here. This is emit heat. It doesn't really blow air, so it's going to melt that powder where it stopped to the stamped image. It's a little bit harder to tell what the white paper on white or white powder on white paper. But it goes from being a white granular to a smooth, glossy white image while you're melting it. So now I'm going to stamp in a boss my reverse. You could do your background and then do the stamping and embossing afterwards. But by doing the stamping and embossing ahead of time, you can choose what colors you want behind different areas. It gives you a little bit more options. Now saying that the ink is going to flow and move around once we add the water to it. But it is nice to have a little bit of control over what color is going to go where? No, let's melt that one. If you happen to have any powder stuck outside of your stamp damage, you do want to brush it off before you melt it. Once it's melted, you can't take it off. Just noticed a few pieces on my flowers. We're not totally melted. There we go. Alright, so now we've got our watercolor paper embossed there. We're going to take our markers and we're going to color it. Now. You're not trying to be careful with this. This is just to get some color on your background. And like I said before, it's not going to stay where we put it. So it's going to move around a little bit. So you do not in any way need to be precise with this. Some more over here. And as you can see, I'm not concerned with getting the background completely covered. I'm just doing trying to get all areas to have some in it. I'm trying to put each of the colors in several different places. I don't want just like one block to read and one blotch of purple, blah, blah, blah. And you can do whatever colors you want. I chose these colors because they coordinate with the other cards that are in this class. But you don't have to go with these colors in any way, shape, or form. The markers that I'm using are Tombow markers. But any diabase marker that reacts to water will work. Now we need a spray bottle and we're going to spray it as much or as little water as you want. I just want to make sure that there's a good amount of water so that the ink starts to move around and blend with each other. I don't in general tend to move the card stock very much. I pretty much spray it and leave it to move to blend and stuff like that. If you wanted to, you could lift and tilt to move it where you want it to go. But I kinda like seeing what it does and where it flows to. If you happen to have an area that's really, really dark, that you don't like it All. The best way to get rid of it is take a corner of a paper towel and just place it on there and it will suck all the excess out there. So I'm going to leave that to completely dry. You could take a heat tool, not the embossing guide because we don't want the heat from it. We just wanting something that's going to lightly and gently dry the inks, you could do that to speed up the ink drying. I'm going to let it dry completely naturally. So it will take awhile depending on how much water you've added. 3. Marker Background Technique: Card Assembly: Alright, our background is completely dry and we're ready to glue or car together. You do need to wait till all of that ink is completely dry or else your glue is not going to stick. But I love how the ink just blends. Just, you can just get some really, really cool blends that you can't do with angle ending on a background. So it's one of my favorite techniques just to see what happens because it's one of those things that you can only control what colors you put down. You can't control how they start to flow and blend with each other. And it's a great way if you have dye based markers to just play and create backgrounds. Again, you want to make sure that you're using paper that can handle the water. So either watercolor paper or mixed media paper. But have fun with it. And then obviously the stamp images and the sentiment can change for whatever it is that you're making it hard for us. So it doesn't have to be this stamping, this sentiment. But definitely a fun technique. I've got all my mats for my piece already cut and ready to go. I'll put the measurements for them on the supply list. You'll know the sizes of everything. All of the cards in this class, like I said before, are five by seven because of the size of this stamped images that I'm using. But you could do the same techniques and scale down the cards if you had different stamps that were on a smaller scale. Now, the watercolor paper here, see how it's starting to curl up there. When you're using water with watercolor paper. That just happened. It does that. Just trying to find my block here. So what I like to do is put a acrylic block on there while it's drying and then put something to weight it down. And then when you're done, it will be completely flat. But I love that background. So in the next video, I'm gonna show you how to create a similar background, but with dye based ink pads instead. 4. Ink Pad Background Technique: So this here is the next card we're going to make, and it's the same design, the same card front design as the first one, but we're going to use some dye based inks instead. The technique is very similar. But just so you know that this technique can be done with either die based ink pads or diabase markers and get a very similar result. I changed the colors for this two blues just because I thought it'd be nice to see it with a different color scheme. So this first steps are the same as the last one we need to stamp and Emboss our image. We're going to use that same sticky watermark ink. Watercolor paper has some texture to it. So choose which side you prefer. And then when you're stamping, make sure you press your stamp really, really well to get a good impression of your image. Rico. Excess powder back in the container. And who'll melts this? Then do the sentiment. This is a thank-you sentiment that I just really, really like. Again, it could be with any sentiment. This image is so generic. It can be a sympathy card. It could be a birthday card. You could do a wedding card, so you don't, you're not limited to what the card could actually be with this image. I just want to make sure you choose a sentiment that fits in the open area. Once again, if you have any powder stuck to something outside of your stamped image, make sure you take a soft brush and brush it off. This is looking good. Perfect. Now we're going to use our ink pads. I'm going to go from light to dark. I'm not really for any reason. But just that the off chance that the ink pads are the ink is still slightly damp from one. I don't want to get dark ink on my light ink pad. And I tend to do about three areas of each color. But obviously, this last one, there's gonna be more because there's more open. And again, you don't necessarily have to cover every single thing just like with the last one, anything any spots that are open are going to get filled once you spray it with the water and they start to move around. So we don't even need to wait, wait for the ink to dry at all. We're just going to spray again as much or as little of water as you want. And if you want to tip it to move the ink surround you can. I tend to like to leave it on its own and just let it dry. I'm going to let that dry completely, same as last time if you happen to have a spot that gets lots of ink that you don't want it too. You can use a paper towel to mop it up on. And you can also put it on a paper towel so that some of the excess can run off and just be soaked up by the paper towel. And I'm going to let that completely dry. And then we'll see you in a bit to finish our card. 5. Ink Pad Background Technique: Card Assembly: Alright, this piece is all dried. I love the combination of those blues together. I think that background looks really, really cool. And you can see, I mean, because I used all blues, you don't see different colors blending together, but you can see how, you can see a little bit of each of the colors. Like I just liked the way colors blend together when you just add a bunch of water and let it do its thing. Sometimes you get the most unexpected results from that. Alright, so my back or my mat pieces are cut once again, and I did similar ones to the last card, just in colors that coordinated with the colors of this background. And then you can also see how curved my card stock is from the water and stuff like that. Even when you'd use watercolor paper or mixed media paper, It's bound to happen. Once again. I use the acrylic block, make sure it's set the way that I want it to, then add a weight to it. This one here is almost dry and you can see how much it's flattened out just by letting it dry with a weight on top of it. So that works really, really well. It just takes a little bit of time. Alright, the next card, we're going to use some markers rate on a stamp. 6. Direct to Stamp Technique: So now we're going to use the dye based or markers and we're going to use them directly on our stamp and create a watercolor effect. Penny Black has a bunch of these different stamps that have a brushstroke kind of a watercolor look to them that are fun to use. So what I'm doing here is I'm taking my marker, I'm taking the brush ended of my marker. These ones have a fine and underbrush and I'm using the brush and for all of it, for this, I'm coloring directly onto the stamp. Now while I'm coloring on the stamp, the ink will dry on that stamp. But what we can do then is mixed it with some water and then stamp it. And it'll create a watercolor effect. So as you can see, some of the colors are pretty easy to see as I'm coloring them. The lighter colors are a lot harder to see on the stamp. But I always work from light to dark. Because if I get some light marker on this dark one, it's not going to really ruin my marker. And if I get some dark marker onto my light one, isn't it? Again, it's not going to necessarily ruin the marker, but I don't want to color expecting this light color and then get a dark purple with it. Whereas that's not gonna happen with the dark purple here. So my flowers are done. And now I'm going to do my greenery. So I have two different greens here. There's not a whole lot of difference between the two of them. But I do still like to use a darker one to add a bit of shading. I think it just gives it a bit more of a realistic look, as well as the fact that I find when you use multiple colors, which just gives it more dimension. So light-colored done, the dark one is going on the bottoms of the greens. Anywhere there would be a little bit of a shadow, so rate the bottom of the leaf, they're underneath that flower. We go. So now I'm taking my misting bottle and all you do is missed it two or three times just to get a light mist over and I don't want it drench because if it's drenched, you're going to lose some of the detail of the flower. So I'm trying to get it wet enough so that the ink is wet and it's going to transfer really well. But I'm not trying to ruin much of the detail. I'm gonna do one from this side. There we go. And you wanna make sure that you have a mister for this. That gives us a nice fine miss this one here. I did get a few drops with it, but that's okay. But in general, I want one that has a fine overall missed and I like this mr. For it. This one if you're pushing the lever or the trigger, whatever all the way you tend to get a fine mist. And if you push it part of the way you get it, it's kinda spits. Alright, so I'm going to lift that up. There's still a bunch of ink on there. We're going to use it for another credit in the next section. So don't clean your stamp off. But there we have our image. I'm going to let that completely dry. And while that is drying, I'm going to just add a sentiment to the bottom. And this one, I'm using an ink pad to ink the stamp because it's a close enough purple for me. You could use the the purple marker that we just used in color it. But in that case, instead of spraying it with water, you would have on it as if you were like cleaning how you have fun glasses to clean them, you would do that. You want some moist air to rehydrate the inks way that you can stamp it for something this detailed. If we were to mix it with water, you would lose all the detail in your stamp would pretty much are, your sentiment would pretty much be smeared. But there we go. We're just going to let we're just going to dry that quickly a second. It shouldn't take too long because there's really not a whole lot of water that we added. We just did enough to get the detail or the stamp to transfer over. Because for a stamp this big, by the time you finished coloring it, the first colors that you used or all dried. But it's good enough to bear. Once again, I've got my pieces already cut and you'll see that there wasn't as much water. So this one didn't bend nearly as much as the other ones did. I'm using a liquid adhesive to a glue my cards together just because I like it so that if by chance I got a drop of water on there. So let's put the glue on the side. If by chance, I don't place it correctly the first time I can move it and adjust it. Whereas with just a double-sided adhesive, you don't sometimes have that leeway, but you could, if you'd like it to using a tapered or you could use a tape runner for this doesn't necessarily have to be a liquid is GC. I tend to find that my liquid adhesives though, last way longer than my tape runners do. This one, you need to hold it down for just a couple of seconds because it is bent. And I am going to, after I turn the camera off, I'm gonna put it acrylic block and a weight on there too. It's to finish drying it. But there we go, our first card in the next video, I'll show you what we do with the remaining ink on the pad or on the stamp. 7. Direct to Stamp Technique: Second Generation: Alright, so now we're going to take this ink that's left from inking the stamp with the markers from the last card. And we're going to create another car with it. Now I'm actually going to stamp this two different times, just so that you can see you can use it a few times. The other thing. So the very first time we stamped it, we got quite a dark image. Each time we stamp it, There's, the image is going to get just a little bit lighter. So that's a second-generation stamping. This one here is a third-generation stamping. So this is the one that I did after that one. Each time it's going to get lighter and lighter and absolutely you can use it until it gets to the point where there's not really much this one here. I didn't create a card with. But just so you know that you can use this a few times. And I did my inking for this with markers. You could try do it with ink pads. It's going to really depend on this stamp. Some stamps are going to be a little bit easier to judge where the different colors are and be able to separate them in ink them. Some, it's just really not going to work too well. In my opinion, this flower is one where it really doesn't work quite as well. So now I'm going to miss this again and stamp it again. And this one, I'll just put it aside and make a card with it later. But it's pretty cool that you can Inca stamp once and then get several different cards with it. And I could probably do it yet again, but I'm not going to because limits. So this one I'm going to set aside, I'm not going to use this this. I'm just going to dry it a little bit before we go with the next step. For myself, my own opinion, this is just a little bit sparse. There's not a lot to it. So what I did was just stamp a text in the background just to kind of fill that out a little bit. So drying it, you could let it air dry. I'm just doing it with the heat tool just to get it dry a little bit faster. But you definitely don't need to. You could absolutely let it air dry and you'll get the exact same result. It just depends on your patient's level really. There we go. So I have I'm using this stamp here. It's got a text, one is going to music. It's got a few different background ones. And all I'm gonna do is keep inking it and I'm going to stamp it up the background of the card. I'm doing it in a really, really light ink so that we get that pattern and the texture in the background, but it's not competing with the flower image. 1 second, Let's make sure our texts is the right way up. So if this was stamped too dark, then you would lose the image of the flower. And basically it will just be a little bit too chaotic. And the stamp here that I'm using is obviously a border stamp. Easy enough to get a background. But if you had a background tech stamp, you could absolutely use it. Even that music stamp I think would be really cool in the background. But the beauty of a set like this, as you get several different background options within the same, within the same set. Alright, there we go. Our background is done. Now I'm just using the same sentiment that I used for the last one. It could be again, whatever sentiment you want. You could even use a die cut for a sentiment. There we go. Now, let's glue or car together. I use the same layers as the last one. The same color layers. I just liked the way they look together. So again, measurements for all of this will be on your supply list that you don't need to worry about having to write it down. But I kept all the maps for the different cards the same. Just to get a little bit of continuity between the cards. There we go. Once again, this does need to be weighted with an acrylic block, so I will do that. But there we go. Another stamp or another card done with a stamp with markers directly to it. 8. Combining all of the Techniques: So for this card, we're going to combine a bunch of the techniques that we've already covered. So we're going to use some ink pads to do a bit of a blending technique in the back. We're also going to use markers rate on the paper in combination with that technique. And then we're going to use the markers rate on the stamp to do the image, the front of the card. So very first step. And I'm only actually using the red and the dark charcoal for using the markers on the background. I didn't want to have a green background or too much green in the background. But I did want to tie in a little bit of some of the image colors. Just putting a little scribble of each one. And that's enough. I don't really want it to go too far in because I don't want it to interfere too much with the image. So now I'm taking my iPad's here and I'm smashing them on my surface. Obviously you can't see them because I have a black mat here that I'm working on. So then I'm going to miss the ink pad ink. And then I'm going to dip this in. I'm going to dry it a little bit and then dip it a couple times just to get some really nice texture in the background. So you want to see some water droplets when you add the water to your table, there are two your surface. And if you've got a spot that's not wet yet that hasn't been wet down, just dip it into the water. Now I'm going to try it slightly. If I were to just keep it keep dipping it into water, I would just keep blending the inks by drying it. I'm setting some of the inks. And by setting, I mean, if I were to douse it with water, it would still move. But I'm going to layer the inks on top of each other and just get a more dimensional look in a little bit more. You have a little bit more control when you dry the Incas in between. If I were to just keep dabbing it and moving it, I would just be blending and smearing it and I wouldn't really be adding some extra texture to it. It would be fairly one dimensional. So this doesn't need to be completely dry for the next layer, above 75% is good. I'm pretty much everything is dry other than the top here and a little drip there, but that's okay. So what I'm gonna do before, instead of just dipping it over and I'm tapping it the exact same space and whatnot on here. I'm just gonna move it this way. I get some of the colors mix a little bit. Tap in the center. You see how you get some dots. By doing that. Just adds a little bit more texture and a little bit more dimension. And same as before. If there's a darker area that you don't really like, how much is there? You can simply take a piece of paper towel where that excess isn't just lifted up. All right. That is good enough. I'm going to dip it probably just one more last time. There we go. A little bit up there. A little bit in there. Here we go. Liking how that's looking. So now I'm going to dry it completely 100%. I'm just going to pause the cameras so that you don't have to watch. The ink is completely dry. I'm going to take a paper towel and clean my surface off here. I don't want any ink residue over there in case I happen to dip something or tap something over there. So now we're gonna do the same director's stamp method as the first iris card. So you can see that I am taking my marker and I tend to go from where I want it to be the darkest. And then kinda feather up a little bit. I don't try to, I try not to get harsh lines on it. And I'm also using the side of my marker. I'm not using the tip. The side is going to cover a lot more area. And it's also gonna be a little bit less damaging to your marker. These markers, if you do a lot of this and are really, really heavy handed with it, you will start to see your marker starts to degrade over time because it's the tips of these are not really great quality. So I tend to actually save this technique when I, for one, I have markers that are starting to, starting to get to the end of the day. Because it's a great way to get more use out of them. Now I'm taking my dark charcoal here, putting a little bit of black in the center of that puppy. And once again, I'm going from where I want that black, the darkest, I've kind of feathering out. And then a little bit of green once again, same as last time I do the light 1 first. And as I'm doing this, I'm trying not to overlap with the other colors. Don't want to contaminate my marker by doing this, I'm just trying to get the color down. So I tend to start where there is a different color and then move away from it so that I don't accidentally go like this into it. There we go. Then same as before. I do my darker color, basically where there would be a shadow. So under flowers where things go behind other things and then from the bottom up, underneath leaves sort of thing. One of these things that is a very, very forgiving so you don't have to be too, too worried about it. Now I'm going to miss my stamp a couple of times and then I'm going to stamp it before doing that, make sure you've checked out your background and you've decided where you're wanting to stamp it. I'm going to stamp it like this because I want my flowers up in this light to open space there. But you can see how exactly the same colors, the same technique, you get completely different backgrounds. And that's part of the thing I love about this technique is you never know exactly what you're gonna get. Missed it. And then let's stamp. I like to hold it, make sure it's firmly in place and then press around to make sure that that stamp gets good contact with the paper. And then lifted up. Love that. Once again, there's a ton of ink still here. We're gonna do one more card after this and we're going to use this excess ink for that. So this needs to be dried once again with the drawing tool. Now if you found it too busy with the red that we added along the outside, you can eliminate that completely and just do the ink pads or whatever. But I just wanted to see the color is incorporated into the background and I liked the way it looked. But it's not for everybody. Some people might just find that it's a little bit too much, That's a little bit too busy. And I do love the way it looked, but I do, I cannot understand how. For some people it might be a little bit too much, a little bit too busy. Everyone is different, so, but it's fun to learn these different things and it kinda sparks your imagination on what you can do. Alright, that's probably dry enough. Yeah. Let's go glue everything to the card. Once again, everything is already pre-cut. Rough edge there from cutting initiative, trimmed it better, but we're just gonna go with it. Lastly, our image piece. And once again, we're going to need to hold this down with or acrylic block. And our little jar of weights. I do have a die cut here. Rather than stamping something on here, I didn't think stamping would show up. I thought it would be a little bit too messy. And a little bit probably won't be as bold as a dicot. So I just die cut the word love in black so that it shows up really nice. You could use whatever dicot you want. And if you didn't want to put anything on the front, you could just put it on the inside of the card. There we go. Make sure this is all on there perfectly before we put our weight down. There you go. And that will dry, nice and flat. Just like this one here. Was just a fun little way to combine, combine all the different texts, techniques that we've been learning in the last few videos. 9. Combining all of the Techniques: Second Generation: Alright, we can't let the ink on here go to waste. So let's do one last card. So I'm just going to miss this a couple of times to rehydrate that ink, stamp it down. So this, the technique for this is very similar to the one with the second-generation generation Irish guard. Really, it's exactly the same thing except a different stamp. We're doing a different background stamp. And then I've got the same die cut that I used on the other poppy card. And once again, there's more ink on there. I could likely get a third stamp out of it, but I'm just going to put it to the side for right now. Let's dry this ink before we stamp our background. Always nice when you can do one technique and get several cards out of it by stamping it and stuff like that. So why not tiny little bit in the center of this still damp. I'm just trying to dry. When the paper curves up like this, you can also use the tool on the back of it. Try to flatten it out a little bit. It's not going to go completely flat, but it will help even it out. I think that's dry enough. Yeah. Alright, so now I've got to this one to the music stamp from that same set as the script stamp. And what I like to do with this one, I'll stamp it this way and then rather stamp at this, then stamp at the exact same way all the way up. I will turn it around just so that it looks like a sheet of music rather than the same thing repeated over and over again. The way to keep track of which way it is, is there is treble clef and bass clefs on one side, so I just pay attention to what side I had it on last. Another thing that you could do is instead of stamping it here, you could like you can move it over this way as well. But it always looks a little bit better if it's not a powder and going all the way up and down. Once again, you could use just a background music stamp that would work as well. Just something to add a little bit of texture to it. Although this one with the red I didn't find to be quite as sparse. I easily could have created a card with it, just as it was from that first stamping. But I do like the pattern background behind it. Another super-quick stamp aren't super quick card to get together. And great for if you wanted to do a bunch of cards in one sitting to encompass stamp with a marker and then do a couple different stamping with it without needing to re-engage. There we go. And once again, the dicot. So the dicot, I do like to use this liquid adhesive width. What I like to use is distress collage medium. And the reason I like it if you haven't watched the video where I've talked about it, is it dries completely clear and it also dries matte. So if anything squishes out, and especially when you're doing dye cuts like this that are quite fine. If anything squishes out. It's gonna be completely clear once it's dried and it's also going to be met. So you're never going to see that it's there. You're going to have no idea. So while your glue is what you want to make sure to see the edges of it and make sure it's all lined up. But there we go, That's the final result. 10. Dye Ink Techniques for Papercrafting Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for dyeing techniques, for paper crafting. I hope you enjoyed learning these techniques and then it's inspired you for your future projects. Now remember you can change any of the colors, any of the stamps, any dye based inks will work. It doesn't necessarily have to be the brands that I used in this class, but have fun with it. I'll see you soon.