Simon Says Stamp and Show 'Favourite Ink'.

The challenge over at Simon Says Stamp and Show is asking us to show our 'favourite ink'. So unfair! How can any paper crafter choose just one favourite ink! Well I've pondered about this for a few days and come to the conclusion that there are inks that you just cannot live without and for me these would be Jet Black Archival, and the whole range of browns in Distress Ink, from antique Linen to Walnut stain. So they are just a given but the ink that first captured my heart at the very beginning of my stamping adventure, is good old clear embossing ink. With clear embossing ink and clear embossing powder, it doesn't matter what colour surface you choose to stamp on or what colour ink you blend in afterwards, you always have that magical resist shining through. So I'm sharing my journal cover which I completed a while ago, it's nice and clean as I usually have a plastic slip cover over it. It's very simply done, just stamped with clear embossing ink, over the top of a printed picture of birds and grasses, and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I then blended in several colours of Distress Ink,enabling the stamping to shine through.

 This is the back cover, done in just the same way. Both pages were done in a purely experimental way, so the stamping is pretty random. The images were down loaded from The Graphics Fairy and printed onto A4 sized white card. I just really like the results and when I use this technique on cards for  my none crafty friends, they always ask 'how did you do that?' It's just a little bit of crafty magic! So this time around, I'm choosing Clear Embossing ink as my favourite. The generous people over at Simon Says Stamp have sponsored the challenge and one lucky person drawn at random, will win a very cool $50 to spend in their shop.So why not share your favourite ink.x