Brushing up on Re-Inkers

Good evening all, I do hope that you have had a good day.

It is lovely and sunny here now, thank goodness that we don’t have the rain that they forcast earlier. 

The sky did go a little black but it blew over and now it is beautiful outside. 

Yesterday it was our regular Hazel Grove workshops, 

and we had a bit of a session using Re-Inkers. 

The bottled inks by Tim Holtz. 

Now these were designed to be used to add ink to your Distress Ink pad when it was running out, 

but we have so many other ways of using them . 

As they are water based you can do all those lovely background techniques with them , 

Rock salt, cling film , shaving foam .

So we had a bit of a messy play with shaving foam, mind you 

the room did smell rather lovely. 

We then added some Lavinia stamps. 

Look what some of the ladies made 

Sorry, but I didn’t manage to take photographs of all your fabulous cards...

The Re-Inkers can also be used with cut n dry felt to make your own ink pad. 

For our second card we made a simple background, by just painting with the ink, let it dry 

Then added a Fresh Cut Die from Clarity 

Some white highlights and charcoal shading finished off the design .

We were very lucky in the morning as Julie had made me a Birthday cake. 

Oh my, 

It was Divine ...and had a hint of rose water.

It certainly went down very well. 

Thank you so much Julie. 

I have another busy day tomorrow as I will be getting the car packed 

ready for our workshop in Anglesey on Saturday.

See you soon ladies 

Much love and hugs 

Jo xxx