White Craft Ink

What do you do with White Craft Ink? How do you use it?

White craft in is sometimes overlooked in the Stampin’ Up! catalog. It is not on the page with all the other beautiful colored ink and cardstock. You will find the white craft ink on page 129 with the other specialty inks, such as Memento Black, StazOn and Versamark.

The white craft ink is so very versatile. Stamp directly on colored cardstock for a soft, subtle look.

Heat Emboss

Stamp an image with White Craft Ink, sprinkle with White Embossing Powder and heat emboss. If some flecks of powder misses adhering to the image, at least the lines underneath will be white and probably will not be noticed! Then, if you like, you can also color in the areas with White Craft Ink and a Blender Pen or small paint brush. Or heat emboss with another color, like gold, as seen below on the right.

Of course, you can heat emboss over the white ink and leave it at that. On the left below is a version of the first card. Notice how the ink alone is a softer, more subtle look, and the heat embossing makes for a more bold look. If your stamp has some fine lines on it, expect to lose some of that detail once it’s heat embossed. The powder expands a bit and then the finer lines blend together, as seen here, but I happen to like the effect. It looks powdery or snowy!

The pink card on the right has the white heat embossing with the flowers colored in with white ink. It was done very lightly so it actually looks like a light pink. The background was stamped with ink alone.

Faux Embossing

This next technique is one of my favorites! It gives the card a faux embossed or shadow effect. Although it looks raised, it isn’t! simply stamp first with your colored ink and then stamp over it with your White Craft Ink, but ever so slightly off-set. Or you can stamp with white first and then the color. Either way works!

Painting

Try “painting” or filling in any image, on any color with White Craft Ink. Here you see the flower from Celebrate Sunflowers stamped on two different cardstock colors.

Other Techniques

See two more techniques for using your White Craft Ink. The card on the left below shows little randomly placed smudges of white ink applied to the brick background. Use your blending brush to get this soft look.

The card on the right was actually stamped first with White Craft Ink (as seen in the card at the top of the page). It was then colored over with the Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Pencils. If you want colored pencils to show up on dark cardstock, put down a layer of the white ink to act as a primer, you might say. Once it is dry, you can color over it, and the true pencil colors will show nicely.