Using ink refills for fun New Year’s cards

Hello Pink and Main friends. It’s Donna here, with a bunch of New Years’ cards for you. It’s release day, and today’s release is especially good news for those who like to have coordinating supplies. There are seven new colours of ink, along with refills for each of them, which match with Pink and Main’s cardstock colours. You can see the whole release here, including the stamps and other releases. There is a video of the making process on my YouTube channel, which you can see here.

To make the background, I have used shaving cream as a base, dropping little drops of reinker in Dress Shop, Construction and Barbershop onto the shaving cream before swirling them a little with a toothpick. I then dipped regular card stock into the shaving cream and scraped off the excess. It really was a fun process and the cards smell wonderful, thanks to the shaving cream.

The first panels used the swirled backgrounds, and then I started using the leftover shaving cream and ink to scrape through some Pink and Main Stencils. I absolutely loved the results that this gave, with lovely swirls of colour in the designs of the stencils. The stencils I chose were: Stained Glass, Bursting and Curly Waves, and the way that the colours danced through the holes in the stencils is delightful.

The sentiments come from a set called Happy New Year which is also part of the new release. I used the Coordinating Dress Shop Card to match the ink refill, and I also stamped one of the sentiments in Dress Shop ink, so everything matched perfectly!

I hope you enjoyed these cards and are excited for the possibilities for the new dies and inks. I’m definitely going to keep playing with these!

Until next time, May your days be bright!!!!

Blessings,

Donna