Retro Week: Saturday

I loved the Brilliance Inks when they first came out. Then they kind of got put aside as other new and cool stuff came out.

Then a few years later, Tseukineko released some new colours that made me fall in love all over again.


The background on this card is just direct to paper with a couple of the new (at the time) colours (I think Pearlescent Olive and Cosmic Copper). Then I overstamped the image in black. The metallic sheen on the paper I created was stunning.

Retro Week: Wednesday

I love the look of interference colours on black. Years ago, they brought out Opalite Inks (Tseukineko) for stamping on dark colours. I saw a demo where you created a background out of the reinkers at a Stampers Celebration several years ago in Calgary. I was sitting down working on this card and had a brain wave that I bet you could get that metallic interference look by painting with them.

So, I stamped the pear (A Stamp in the Hand) with black ink and then painted with the Opalite reinkers (I just put a few drops on a non stick craft sheet and literally painted). I quite like how it turned out.