Hi all! It's Monday! Hopefully the weather will be better and it will be start of a fabulous week.
Today I wanted to share a post that Terry from Classy Cut-Ups Creations shared with her blog fans. This article was originally posted at Misty's Mess. I hope that you will also find the conclusion very interesting.
Tim Holtz Distress Inks Vs Stampin’Up! Classic Ink
I thought it would be an interesting experiment to make two cards the
same, one using Tim Holtz distress Inks and the other using Stampin’Up!
Classic Ink. They are both dye inks, and they are the inks I use almost
exclusively. The card is made using three different techniques, wrinkle
free distress, direct-to-paper stamping and watercolouring and I used
Stampin’Up! Whisper White cardstock.
Fisrt I did a colour selection from both brands so I could get the
closest colour match for my experiment. In order of the photo, naming
SU! first; PerfectPlum – DustyConcord, RidingHoodRed – FiredBrick,
RegalRose – WornLipstick, PumpkinPie – SpicedMarmalade, MoreMustard –
WildHoney, Old Olive – PeeledPaint.
I used the
Wrinkle Free Distress Technique for
the backgrounds. The top is made with Stampin’Up! Old Olive and More
Mustard. The bottom on is made with Distress Ink Peeled Paint and Wild
Honey. I was surprised at how well the Stampin’Up! inks worked using
this technique. I was expecting a less intense colour and for the
colours to mix more for a more ‘muddied’ colour blend, but the colours
stayed bright and layered nicely. I added a ‘fingertip splash’ of plain
water over the top to see what would happen, and both papers gave the
same result with the whitish patches showing up. It maybe worth doing
this technique again with more contrasting colours. I may have played it
safe using closely related colours.
I should have photographed these two together, because despite taking
the pics at the same time, they have a different cast of light.
Anyways, here I have shown the Jumbo Peony by Stampendous, stamped with
the two different inks. I was never overly fond of using Distress Inks
for stamping crisp images, but this particular stamp lends itself well
to using them since the image has a nice sketchy feel to the line work. A
bit hard to tell from the photos but the Stampin’Up! impression is
crisp with even colour, and the Distress impression has some fuzzy edges
with a blotchy colour, but it doesn’t detract from the stamping.
Next I move onto the watercolouring. Both colours were easy to use,
layer and blend using this technique. It’s hard to objectively say how
they were different, but they did have a different ‘feel’ when it come
to laying down the colour. The Distress Inks felt smooth, but they were
both up to the job of giving me a pleasing and like-for-like look.
Next came the layering and shading with other colours. Both sets of
inks were up to this job as well, giving me a watercolour look I was
after. I liked the way the yellows from both layered brightly over the
pink, and the purples blended when creating my shadows.
And this is what the finished cards look like side by side. I stamped
the florish from the Jumbo Peony onto the background before the final
assembly. So what do you think? Does one look better than the other? Can
you tell that each is made with different types of ink? On these cards,
using the techniques I have, I can’t see the difference. My initial
purpose was to show how these inks were different, but it didn’t turn
out that way, with this card.
