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Permalink Reply by Stacie Williams on May 29, 2008 at 11:38pm

Staz-on is what you want Alicia. Although the white isn't all I thought it would be.

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on May 30, 2008 at 1:12am

Okay, I actually made a special trip to Hobby Lobby to buy StazOn, thinking that's what I wanted. I went for the lightest blue they had and it didn't show up at all on the black. I'll give the white a shot and see how that works. Thanks for the suggestions.

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Permalink Reply by Stacie Williams on May 30, 2008 at 7:22pm

Damn....that's an expensive ink pad to not have it work. That's part of the problem I had with the white- it's not as opaque as I had heard it was, or thought it was going to be.

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Permalink Reply by Deb Schaefer on May 30, 2008 at 12:56pm

Have you tried Stazon? It's supposed to stay on everything.

Deb

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on May 30, 2008 at 1:23pm

I did try StazOn in a light blue, but it didn't show up. I'm going to try it in white and see if that works. Thanks. :)

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Permalink Reply by Stacie Williams on May 31, 2008 at 3:23pm

Usually pigment ink is a mess on non porous surfaces. You just can't get it dry enough to not smear.

What about paint Alicia? I did a Paris page & wanted to have a white word running down the side, the only thing that was opaque enough was heavy bodied acrylic paint. Worked like a charm.

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on May 31, 2008 at 11:42pm

I thought about paint today, actually. I did pick up the white StazOn with the last of my Hobby Lobby coupons today. Hopefully tomorrow I can try some things out. Thanks again for the suggestions.

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on May 31, 2008 at 11:44pm

I tried a Brilliance copper and it showed up nicely, but 3 days later it still smeared right off. I'm not familiar with Palette Hybrid. I'm thinking that if I can't do this with what I have (and what I've picked up this week), it'll be time to move on to plan B. :)

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Permalink Reply by Christy on June 2, 2008 at 1:36am

On a scrap try loading your stamp with the lightblue staz-on, then with a paintbrush add some white acrylic paint. You'll probably want to be pretty fast but it should give you the blue over the white or a mix. Also, a good way to get pigment ink to 'dry' is to use a clear embossing powder over it. Or even a color that you like.

Edit: I just tried this on some black glossy card stock and I got the paint and only a hint of the stazon. So you might just want to use the paint in the exact color you want. I did lightblue cheap craft quality acrylic and it looked good.

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on June 2, 2008 at 10:01am

Thanks Christy. I'll give that a shot, too.

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Permalink Reply by Sandi Wedemeier on June 2, 2008 at 7:52pm

Do you just want to use ink or have you thought about embossing? You can get powder in a whole wad of colours these days and it gives a nice texture. Even if your design is detailed, you can get detail embossing powder...it's just ground finer than regular.

The other thing you can try with your Brilliance ink, is to heat set it. I usually heat set any pigment type ink, just because...
1) I'm generally impatient
2) have littlers about
3) fear the cats jumping up on my table and into my project.
4) any or all at the same time!

Have you thought about using chalk ink? Though on something plastic-y, you might again have to heat set it. Let me go give it a try...

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Permalink Reply by Sandi Wedemeier on June 2, 2008 at 8:05pm

well...I tried and had limited results. Although it appears that there are only three stamped images, there are four. From left to right are tangerine, french blue and lavendar and the fourth and for all intents and purposes invisible image is burnt sienna.

My best advise would be to try to find white pigment ink, you would have to heat set it though, it would never dry otherwise.

That or again, thermal embossing. Let me know if you can't find the white pigment ink, I have several around here and can more than likely scrounge postage.

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