Today’s card is a lovely soft and subtle card, all created by colouring with dye inks and a pen! I’ve often seen people colour with their dye inks and a blending pen, so I thought I would give it ago. For my first attempted I went with soft colours till I get the hang of it and I can be more adventurous in the blending. This card features a stamp from Julie Hickey Designs(JHD) * and the lovely floral design really adds to the soft nature of this card. So let’s get started!
*Gifted items - See disclosure at the end of the post for more details
colouring with dye inks and a pen: creating the foundation
Place a white card panel into your MISTI stamping platform and position the JHD Joyful Blooms stamp set in the middle. Stamp this in Catherine Pooler Designs Twilight ink and allow to dry.
To colour the stamps in, you’ll need to use a waterbased blender pen. The pen I’m using is Tombow ABT N00 Dual Blender Brush Pen, I got mine on Amazon but any local art and crafts shop may stock them. Next, sen the brush end to pick up colour from a dye ink pad and start colouring in. Be gentle, apply too much and the paper may start to pill. The colours used on this card were:
CPD:
- Hot Tub
- DayDream
- Mint To Be
- Sage
colouring with dye inks and a pen: Adding some shine
Colour the centres of the flowers and berries with a WOW! Embossing Pen and cover with WOW! Metallic Gold Rich embossing powder before heat setting. In addition, stamp and emboss a sentiment from the stamp set onto black card.
Trim the sentiment dow and foam mount onto the panel. Adhere the whole panel onto a soft stone card base to die in with the light grey stamping. Lastly, add a few gold sequins to embellish the card.
colouring with dye inks and a pen
Supplies
Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you at these shops: Altenew (ALT), Scrapbook.com (SB), Hero Arts (HA), Picket Fence Studios (PF), My Favourite Things (MFT), and Craft Stash UK/US (CS UK/US).
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All other shops are not affiliated links: Bumbleberry Papercrafts (BP) and WOW! UK/US (WOW UK/US).
 Joyful Blooms – Julie Hickey Designs* Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) |  Hot Tub Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | LPT |  Hot Tub Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | LPT |
 Hot Tub Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | LPT |  Daydream Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | LPT |  Daydream Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | LPT |
 Daydream Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | LPT |  Mint to Be Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | LPT |  Mint to Be Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | LPT |
 Mint To Be Ink Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | LPT |  Seafoam Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |  Seafoam Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |
 Sage Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | LPT |  Twilight Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | LPT |  Twilight reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | LPT |
 Twilight Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | LPT |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink refill Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
 WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad & refill Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) |  Metallic Gold Rich Pale – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Premium White Cardstock: 8.5″ x 11 – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | LPT |
 Soft Stone Heavy Weight Cardstock – Gina K Designs Shop at: BP |  Original MISTI 2.0 – My Sweet Petunia Shop at: ALT | CPD | SB | HA | BP |  Gina K Designs – Connect Glue Shop at: BP |
 Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam squares 1/4″ white Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) | WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: CPD | WOW (US) |
 Teflon Bone Folder – Lawn Fawn Shop at: CPD | BP |  Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |  Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
 QuickStik – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: CPD | SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
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DISCLOSURE
Products from Julie Hickey Designs were gifted to me by Julie Hickey Designs to create with and share inspiration. However, I only create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of with products that I love. I was not paid to create this post. The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.
