Splitcoaststampers.com - the world's #1 papercrafting community
You're currently viewing Splitcoaststampers as a GUEST. We pride ourselves on being great hosts, but guests have limited access to some of our incredible artwork, our lively forums and other super cool features of the site! You can join our incredible papercrafting community at NO COST. So what are you waiting for?
Which ink is better to use on polysrhink, craft, classic, or stazon? And what is best to color the image in, chalks, pencils, markers, or something else?
Creative Director - My Favorite Things Dirty Dozen Alumni
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Florida - MFT Land
Posts: 39,414
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I just made some using brilliance ink (craft style) and prismacolor pencils.
I think they came out pretty. It takes a while for the ink to dry on the polyshrink though. HTH
I think Staz-On is the easiest to use with polyshrink, provided you clean the stamps immediately after stamping the image. With classic ink I think the risk is higher of smudging the image. Just my opinion!
I haven't tried but I heard the Tsukineko (spelling) now do Opalite pads made for dark card and that they work really well on black polyshrink. I have the opalite pads in blue, green and rust but no black shrink so sorry can't try it for you.
I love the effect of opalite though.
StazOn is the best and can be used straight on the PolyShrink, but Craft works really well too if you sand the PolyShrink first. If you're going to stamp a "line art" image and then color it, use StazOn because the Craft ink won't dry until it is heated. You'll also need to sand the PolyShrink really well with the sanding blocks (or fine grit sandpaper), in a cross-hatch pattern, or in other words, diagonally one way and then the other. You really need to rough up the surface so that it will accept the color well. I've used the watercolor pencils to color in, but I'd imagine that the Pure Colors would be even better. Remember, too, that if you're going to color in, go light, because when you shrink, it will go a few shades darker.
__________________ Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. -Faith Whittlesey
I love the Brilliance inks on clear, white, or black shrink plastic. And I use colored pencils with a permanent black for line drawing images. You can hardly see the colored pencil at first. But it shows up when shrunk much darker. Be sure to sand it lightly first to give it some "tooth" to pick up the color. If there are spots that you miss or need a little more color, you can go back over them with the pencils after it's shrunk.
I was at a workshop and we were using black polyshrink. We stamped it with vanilla craft ink, and it worked really well. We just made sure we let it dry for a min or so before we stuck it in the oven.
__________________ Amy, mom to a very active little boy My Gallery member # 17390 My blog
I've got two examples in my gallery with black polyshrink. On both of them I used the white craft pad.
Note - white craft ink does not set even after shrinking (heat setting). It will still smear if it gets wet. To stop that give it a quick spray of acrylic sealer and you won't have any more problems.
Which ink for polyshrink
