DIY Ink Pad Techniques

Welcome once again. I appreciate you stopping by. I'm Jennifer McGuire. I thought I would show some fun twists on ink pad

techniques

that you can do yourself. Now, creating ink pads with baby wipes and rancors is something that's been around for a while, but I have some tips to share with you along the way and also some suggestions on how to use the products you have for these

techniques

. You may already have a ton of ink pads and wonder why you would want to create your own. show you that by creating your own you can create beautiful blended stamped images and unique results now for my DIY ink pads today I will be using Gina K dye ink refills, any ink refills should work for this technique and if not I don't have ink refills , you can also try liquid watercolors.

I recently purchased all the Gina Kay ink refills. I'll be honest, I don't usually buy reinkers, the reason is that I found that the high quality ink pads I use I rarely need. grading, however, lately I have been looking a lot for Gina Kay inks and so has my daughter, since I do this for a job and I stamp a lot and she stamps with me a lot, my inks get used more than they would if I was just doing this as a hobby, so I wouldn't say that if you buy an ink pad that you need to write through a grader, that's one of the ways you can save money for the moment, these ink pads will last you a long time, but know which many of you like to buy rancors out of the box or have some reinkers on hand and you can use any of those for the current techniques, you can even use distress ink reinkers which are a type of rancor.

The only thing you will need for this technique are baby wipes. I like Kirkland brand baby wipes, which you can get at Costco or at the link I provide below. This is an excellent high quality baby wipe. It's lint-free and perfect for this technique, but you can use any wipes you already have, so let's start by making this colorful print you see in the background here. This is really easy and quick to do for this card and many of the cards. In today's video I'm going to use this new cake from Gina, that stamp set on the top left which is a six by eight stamp set, so this is a big kit.

You can see there is another smaller stamp set, some dyes and cardstock included. So here's a look at that large stamp set. I will use the flowers on the leaves on my first card and will also use the butterfly and a sentiment of this on later cards. I picked up the stamps that I will use on this one. card and I like to prepare my stamps since I have never used them before, either by rubbing my fingers over the surface of the stamps or rubbing a dry cloth over them, you will see some of the shine disappear and it looks a little dull on the surface, that means it is ready to stamp.

I stamped the flowers off-screen on an Avery removable adhesive sheet. This is like a sticky note and is perfect for masking, so I created three masks for the three different flowers. that I'm going to stamp on this background now it's time to create our own ink pad and you'll see how easy it is to do. I like to take three baby wipes, fold them in half, and layer them on top of each other. You could try to do less, but I think this provides the perfect surface to ink your stamp. I have four ink refills that I will start with to stamp my flowers.

I have bubble gum passionate pink plum punch with some warm cocoa, now to know how to create. my ink pad I like to take my stamp and stamp it on the baby wipe, you can see it leaves a little impression that way, I know where to put the different inks, in this case it's simple, I want the light pink on the outside, then work with darker colors on the inside and a touch of brown in the center, but let's say you have a more complex image, maybe you have something like a tree and you want to have the brown ink where the trunk is and the green ink where the The sheets are by making the print and the baby wipe first, you'll know where to put what inks, where you can see.

I really don't put much in and these rancors last a long time so don't worry about wasting anything. You're not really using much to do this. Now I'm going to make a little test stamp on scrap paper and I like the results, so now I'm going to start stamping on a piece of white cardstock that. It will be the front of my notecard, so I like to ink my stamp by simply rubbing it on the ink pad I created and rotating it a little while jumping to spread the ink and get good coverage on the stamp after I've stamped it.

I can go ahead and put my mask on top of that image. I have a different stamp here. You can see how I'm turning as I ink it and then stamp. that on my mask for this background I wanted my flowers and leaves to overlap each other and that's why I have the three different masses. I also want to stamp some leaves on this background to have one of my leaf images from the stamp set that I showed you before and I'm going to press that on the baby wipe towards the bottom and apply reinkers to this area, so I'm using Lucky Clover lime ink, which is my favorite green and the grass green type I wear. darker color towards the center and lighter green towards the edges.

Now you can see that I have put more ink than the area I need for the stamp, but it is better to have a larger area of ​​ink so you can move the stamp. while you're inking it and there you can see how I get a multicolor image very, very quickly, there are other ways to get multicolor images where you have a light pink, medium pink and dark pink all in one image, but this is definitely the faster now with the smaller flower of course we're just going to have the darker color in the center because of the way I created my ink pad so my little flowers end up with a darker print and I really like that look so I'm just going to continue stamping and moving my dough until I fill the entire panel of this card and the nice thing is that with the ink pad that I have I can go ahead and make more cards okay so there's my full background , but wanted. to fill in the white area around the leaves and flowers, so I took a pink marker and put little dots in those openings, which creates a really unique looking background and completes the pattern nicely before I show you another DIY ink pad. techniques, let's go ahead and turn this background into a card for this card.

I'm using the Gina Kay Hugs Stamp Set and Hugs Dye that you see on the right. I also wanted to show you that there is a smile stamp set and a smile tint. and I'll use them together throughout the video. There is also a Gina Kay heart and dye stamp set that you will see me use and adjust because the die set I thought I would go ahead and show you all of these at once since they all have a similar style and you can use them together you can mix and match the different feelings to create cards, which you will see me do.

I also die cut three white circle frames using Hero Arts Infinity Circle Dies. two circle die cuts, one a little smaller than the other, and I cut them out of white cardstock to create the circle frame. I use the largest circular die to cut from a platinum vellum and on that I hope to heat emboss sending you from the genic a set of hug stamps that I just showed you that I am gluing three of those circular frames on top of each other for a look stacked and then I also sandwich the piece of parchment between them to have a nice white finished frame for our parchment circle.

I die cut 3 hugs. dies from the genic a hugs die that I showed you and glued them on top of each other. They're cut from plum punch genic cardstock, which is a beautiful color and I actually used it quite a bit in today's video, so I'm gluing it onto my patterned panel that I created and this is all on four and a quarter inch by white card. five and a half inches. I kept this card very simple. I wanted to allow a lot of that background to show as it has a lot of color and detail by putting my hug die cut on a piece of vellum, although it helps the hug die cuts stand out against that busy background.

Now I also created another card while experimenting with all this, it's very similar but I changed. I scaled it up a bit, created my own ink pad with the same greens and stamped them on white cardstock and then cut them out with matching dies. Now my flowers this time I use the same pink but I added a little orange ink. towards the center of the flower so you can see how my flowers look a little different, they have a brighter center. I also stamped them as before and die cut them with the matching dies and assembled them on a white cardstock background that I laid down. that on a plum punched note card that I created and then I added a hello die cut that hello is from that Gina cake kit that I showed you earlier and I put glitter accents on top to give it a little shine and heat embossed white know that you are loved underneath, so this is just a variation of the first technique that I showed you, I just wanted to throw this in there.

I wasn't going to show this at first, but since I had created it I thought I might as well share it and since I have this ink pad ready. It still has a lot of juice. I'm just going to create a background of all the leaves. I really like these leaf images and the colors of the inks, so I just created this quick background that I'm actually going to show off. You'll see the card I made with it later in this video, then I'll show you a few more things, but remember to save these ink pads and use them as much as you can before throwing them away.

Now you can get many cards from them. The first example showed using a DUI why the ink pad had no line images. I wanted to show you that they also work very well with solid images. This is the Genetic Hugs and Wildflowers Stamp Set. It has a unique look and I'm going to take it. some of those solid images and I stamp them with an ink pad that I create to prepare my stamps. I'm just using my dry cloth and rubbing all the stamps at once while they're still on the backing sheet that way when I'm ready to use any of them, they'll already be prepared, so that's a little trick you can do.

I have folded and stacked three baby wipes and am applying inks of the same color in the same type of circular motion on the baby. wipes for the flowers I'm creating the flowers are smaller this time so I have a smaller area of ​​color. I'm using the same greens to create an area to ink my leaves as well, so now I can ink the stamp and stamp. Stick it on my white cardstock and you can see how you get this beautiful kind of watercolor look with really clean edges. It's surprising how well it seals. I could have used this same ink pad I created for my previous examples, but I honestly filmed this. in a few days, so it would have dried out in that time period.

If it starts to dry out while using it in a day, you can spray it with water to reactivate it and you can continue stamping, but this should last. you for a normal creation session. Turns out I'm really slow and split my video over a few days, okay, so I'm just switching around and stamping different images of flowers and leaves and I really like the look of this stamp set. a perfect example for this technique, notice that all my leaves and flowers look a little different because I can vary where I ink my flower and leaves on my ink pad.

I can choose darker or lighter colors, it's fun to change. Place it that way and you can see the beautiful blended images you get, which would require a lot more work with other techniques, so I cut out that piece and added it to the bottom of a four and a quarter by five and a half inches. white note card and I'm adding some sunny Studio dot paper towards the top, I thought it would be fun to add a little pattern paper to the top of my stamp piece. I'm adding two layers of pink cardstock, just strips of cardstock and then on top of those two layers I'm adding a strip of cardstock which allows you to warm up my stamping by placing the other two strips underneath it, it helps lift it up a little bit and it's easier to make foam tape.

I die too. - I cut the heart three times out of black cardstock, glued them together to give it a stacked look, and added it to my card in the background. I used my Copic c1 marker to put dots around the flowers and leaves just to fill in the open areas and match them up. the pattern paper I have on top of the card, Copic c1 markers, my favorite cool gray, and it's great for filling in areas like that, so this is a pretty simple card because I want to keep the focus on that background, You can see the beautiful combination we got by easily making our own ink pad.

Now I really like this background, so I decided to make another one, like thisI created a background exactly like I did before, but I'm going to add some layered stamping on top to have my background is like the last example, but I'm using my genic a plum punch ink that matches the reinker I used and then the outline images of the stamp set and this will give us a completely different look, so if you have layered stamps, you can use this DIY ink pad technique to get that beautiful variety of colors underneath. I'm also using a stylus here to pick up ink from my ink pad and add little dots to the center of the flowers.

Then I have a green marker that I'm using to draw lines in the center of my li and add little dots on those two, just adding little details to the print that we made and you can see how it looks completely different than the other one that I like when I can get two . different looks of one technique, in this case I added that panel to a perforated note card that I created with Gina Kay cardstock and used a bee scalloped frame dye from that same plum perforated cardstock and added it to the front with a white heat . embossed sentiment and that sentiment is from that Gina pastel kit that I showed you at the beginning of the video well now I also wanted to show you how you can create your own ink pad and use it with a Misti stamping tool or any other stamping tool, like this I have a piece of white cardstock that I have centered between the top and bottom of the Mi Misti and I are centering a butterfly from that Gina cake kit right in the center.

Now it's time to create our ink pad, since we have our stamp ready. This time I'm going to double my baby wipes and actually only use two baby wipes. I also have a larger square acrylic block. Any acrylic block would work for this. Basically, we are turning our acrylic block into an ink pad. Now I'm taking some duct tape and wrapping it around the baby wipe and the block. It won't really stick to the wipe because it's wet, but it will hold it there well enough for us to do this technique, so now I've basically created an ink pad that I can take and ink my stamp.

I'm going to use the same colors that I showed you before. I have Bubblegum, the passionate pink and the plum punch. I made a print of my butterfly on my wipes so I know where to apply the ink. Remember to put some ink. A little bit around that image or around that print so you have a little bit of wiggle room. I also add some wild lilac in the center for a really vibrant purple. Well, I have already prepared my seal. I have rubbed it with a dry cloth. I can ink my stamp and stamp it on my cardstock since I'm using a stamp.

I can easily stamp this twice and look at that beautiful blended image I get so easy to do and so much faster than any other way of making it multi-color. I stamped, then I switched my paper up on my Misti and stamped it again, I switched it down and stamped it again and I have placed the butterflies perfectly, all centered, with a beautiful blend and it took no time at all and I still have plenty of ink on that ink pad I probably could have made 10 or 15 of these cards. I decided to make three of them and made one on light pink cardstock just for a little variation, but you could probably get a lot more than that out of that little ink pad. which we did, so we're going to turn those three backgrounds into cards before we do other techniques and I have a really cool trick to share with you using background stamps.

Look at that scalloped background pattern on that card. I always think it's best to center background images on your cards and here's how to do it with the transparent background stamp. I have the scalped mermaid scale stamp from the ink block store. This is a great and versatile background stamp and what I'm going to do is remove the stamp from the backing so that the backing sheet with the printing on it, then I'm going to take the stamp and place the stamp side down so that the back of the stamp is facing up and I will align it with the impression or pattern on the backing sheet.

I'm putting it in the corner of my Misti, so the backing sheets right in the corner close the Misti so my stamp is placed on the door. Now this will be ready to stamp and I can use the backing sheet as a guide to center my card, so it's a little hard to explain. but just watch me do it here. I have a white card here for Anna, quarter by five and a half, taping it so it's ready to stick. I'm lining up the backing sheet with my cards so it's centered, so I'm centering that pattern on it.

I'm going to take the backing sheet while holding the card in the same place, don't let it move and I'll put the backing sheet in the corner of my Misti when I do that, I'm transferring my card. on the Misti because I have that tape there and I can press and press the tape down, then I can remove the backing sheet and I can ink my stamp and stamp it and it will be perfectly centered now it seems like a bit of a pain to do that, but a centered background It always looks better to the eye.

I'm stamping this twice with whispering gene ink, which is a nice soft gray ink and you can see that subtle pattern and it's perfectly centered. Next I added one of my butterfly panels with some plum, some hard to tell perforated cardstock, plumbed and then cut a piece of white craft foam to make it a little smaller. I'm sticking it on the back with Gina Kay, connecting Lou and then I'll add it to our stamp card. I'm also going to stamp that background on the flap of a plum punch genic envelope. I love that the Gina K envelopes match the cardstock perfectly, which matches the inks perfectly, so it all goes together, but here it is.

One trick: I stamped that background on the envelope flap with that whispering ink. You can stamp on any colored cardstock with that whisper ink and it will make it a little darker which is a great trick. Well, I finished this card. You can die cut it just because with those dyes that I showed you before with white cardstock and I glued them in the center of the card, you can see how the scalloped pattern on the background of the card matches the envelope and all the colors. they go together so well the way I chose to use ink blot shop and Gina Kay designs today because I see them doing a lot to support other companies in the industry and it really made a very good impression on me, both the owners Tiffany and Gina are wonderful . women and good friends, so it's fun to use those products together now in the background of this card.

I use the ink stain store. Scribbled rainbow ball stamps. Look how it's a little different. They look like fun rainbows. You could even color them that way if you wanted, but I stamped like I did in the last example and I use a whisper gen cardstock to mat our butterfly panel and I use this same cardstock for the sentiment strips that you see on each butterfly and those are from those stamp sets. that I showed you before, okay now I have a third butterfly card for you, in this case I decided to have the butterflies hang from the edge of the card, so I ended up die cutting each one of them.

I also have a note card. here where I stamp the same ink blot store background stamp on a white note card, but I cut the note card a little shorter on the sides so it's three and a half inches wide and then cut a piece of pink cardstock, this is bubblegum colored cardstock. by Gina Kay and I'm gluing it to the inside of the card so it hangs and now the overall size of that card is still four and a quarter by five and a half, but the front of the card is a little short. now I'm putting a little bit of adhesive along the edge of the front of the card and I'm putting on a strip of plum perforated cardstock just to finish the edge, then I have my three butterflies.

I die cut the same die out of craft foam. And I'm gluing it behind each of my butterfly dies that way, they have wonderful dimension and when it hangs off the edge it doesn't look flimsy on the wing, it's strong enough to hold up well. goes through the mail I also stamped Hello with black ink and that Hello is from a set of stamps that I will show you in a moment and I use the stamps from ink blot shop to also stamp on my matching envelope that envelope is gum envelope from Gina Kay and I stamped with gray ink I whisper again.

I really like how this soft gray ink adds a bit of interest to a card and goes with almost anything, so now let's move on to another example of creating your own ink pads. and in this case I'm stepping it up a bit. Again I'm using some images that have a more solid area and I'm going to add a little bit of glitter to them now for this card I'll be using the new Gina Kay. petal and wings stamp set now this is a six by eight stamp set. You can also get the matching dies that you see at the bottom and a matching stencil and the nice thing about the stencil is that you can use it to overlay details on the stamped images so you can use glitter gel on it, you can use ink on it Whatever you want, it's nice to have that stencil option with the stamp set, so I'm creating two ink pads like I showed you in my last example.

I could have reused the ink pads. from before, but again I went and probably took a boy to a baseball game or a girl to a softball game or something, so I had to create new ones each time, so after my two ink pads created same colors as before, I'm going to use my Misti stamping tool to stamp these images on a white background. I already stamped my sentiment with black ink so I could complete my images around it. Now I usually start slowly. I only make one or maybe two images. at the same time, once I have a few images on my cardstock, I start making multiple images at once just to save time.

I like being able to get these images combined with multiple colors, but it doesn't take long to do because I'm using my own little ink pad that I created out of baby wipes. I have done this technique with distressed ink reinkers before and they also work great for this after I complete my stamping. I want to add that white glow that you see on the flowers for this I use that template that I showed you before. In fact, I'm going to cut the flower out of the template. You don't need to cut this if you don't want to.

You can mask it instead, but I knew I was going to use the flower a lot so I thought I'd do it right, so now I'm going to apply a genic a glitz glitter gel on top. These come in many different colors and give beautiful glitter results and the glitter doesn't rub off. It's in gel form that you can easily apply over the stencils, so here I'm lining that stencil up over my flower and I'm going to tape it down so that there isn't any of the shiny gel anywhere except over that opening. On the template, I take a piece of folded cardstock and use it to apply some white over the opening.

It's very quick, then I can remove the tape and stencil and there we have the glitter perfectly placed. My flower and I'm going to go ahead and do this with the other flowers. I'll end up having to let them dry for about half an hour before moving on to others, but I was able to do it in two rounds and add such a beautiful shine. I also used this part of the stencil sheet to ink my Gina Kay Lucky Shamrock envelope and used grass green ink and a life-changing brush to apply the ink. I tried applying the ink unevenly so I had a little variation in the final result and I like how it matches the card really well so I cut out my panel once it was dry and added it to a four and a quarter white card by five and a half inches.

There you can see the glitter details in my flowers and the multiple colors we have in our stamped images because we took the time to create our own ink pad, so this is one of those that you can make a bunch of them at once using your embossing tool, those ink pads will last you Many cards now remember that earlier I created a background with all the leaves and promised to come back and share the card. I wanted to share it here along with some other flowers I created with glitter gel, so I stamped some of the flowers. from that Gina Kay stamp set and I use the matching dies and now I'm using the stencil to quickly apply the glitter gel to the flower.

I'm using a piece of masking tape with the sticky side facing up so you can see how quick it is to apply this glitter gel on these stamp dies. This time I'm using a pink glitter gel that will dry really well on top of that pink ink. Okay, I also stamped some leaves and die cut them and then die cut them. Hello. of black cardstock and that Hello die is from the same Gina K kit. I added them to the top of a four and a quarter inch by five and a half inch white card and placed a thin strip of lucky shamrock cardstock along along the bottom.

The pattern is combined with the white card. I also have a passionate pink envelope for a perfect match.I just created this card as an afterthought, just combining the different things I showed in this video. Okay, so there are a few ways to create your I have my own ink pads and I'll have another video coming soon showing more things you can do with DIY ink pads. I hope you give these techniques a try as it's something you can do with many products you probably already have if you're interested. In what I used, I link them below my YouTube description and I have a lot more information on my blog in the middle or a couple more videos to watch, as always, thank you so much for being here, see you soon.