Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

wanna-b-rich

chocolate.orange wrote: »

I use Stazon with my Promarkers and not had any trouble at all. You can occasionally get abit of bleeding it you go over the ink, but thats it..
Promarkers soak into the paper that you are using. To increase depth of colour you add layer on layer. So obviously if you over wet the ink it will bleed through. To minimize this i do a layer ,let it dry. add another layer etc. Oh and stay inside the lines

My friend borrowed my Promarkers and used them with Stazon, the inks re-acted and the black ink wrecked my Promarkers (it soaked into the nibs). When she queried it, with Letraset, they advised not using any alchol/solvent based inks, but to use dye based inks. When I went to buy replacement pens, the lady in the craft shop said that I should never use Stazon and recommended Versamark inks.:(

SallyUK

Morning Ladies (well almost)

How are you all? I'm just posting quickly to you Thrifty, before I go out, as my daughter has a choir competition this afternoon.

My DS has Aspergers too and he's almost 18. He received DLA up until he moved down here to Yorkshire from Scotland. I found in Scotland he received lots of help and support especially at his school, but as soon as he moved to the high school here in Yorkshire, it was all taken away. He has no support now from anywhere. He started college last September and it's totally different from High school, he's finding it a lot harder, plus he doesn't have any friends there as they've already formed their little circles of friends and my ds's socialisation skills are mainly affected so he finds it difficult to communicate with strangers for the first time - once he knows someone it's different.

I really feel for you, so hopefully you'll get the help you need and soon.

Have you joined any of the online Asperger's forums?

Thinking of you,

Sal
x

chocolate.orange_2

wanna-b-rich wrote: »

My friend borrowed my Promarkers and used them with Stazon, the inks re-acted and the black ink wrecked my Promarkers (it soaked into the nibs). When she queried it, with Letraset, they advised not using any alchol/solvent based inks, but to use dye based inks. When I went to buy replacement pens, the lady in the craft shop said that I should never use Stazon and recommended Versamark inks.:(

Ahhh sounds like she went over the ink lines insead of staying in them. I just tried with my wore out promarker The nib does take on a tiny of the ink, but i then scrubbed it on spare paper and it came off ? I checked through my lighter Promarkers and they are all fine. So it must just be how i use them. Think its best to say use Stazon with promarkers if you are going to becareful and stay inside the lines :rotfl:.
I have a memento dew drop here that i bought to try. So i will have a stamp with that this afternoon and see what that goes like.

THE-WIFE_3

paddingtondoo wrote: »

Little multi coloured for my taste - no white stilettos sniff (once an essex girl always an essex girl) :rotfl: That's me not you wifey I went to school in Colchester

:rotfl:Padster, actually, I'm a Peckham girl, Del-Boy country and I've never lived in Nelson Mandela House but I was born in a pre-fab, just like the one at Duxford Air Museum. :rotfl:I changed to the white stilleto's when I made the present Mr Wife an honest man. :D Colchester is north of where I am

THE-WIFE_3

Sally & Thrifty I cannot begin to understand what you have and are going through but I'm here or contact me by email if you ever need to have a rant. Please don't ever give up in your quest for some kind of solution, you'll get plenty of encouragement on this thread.

Sending you both mega smega hugs.

THE-WIFE_3

Tired Mom I've been playing with printing digital images and using promarkers for a while. It does seem to make a difference what paper/card you use. The smoother the better and leave it to dry for a while or give it a quick warm-up with heat tool. I am playing with some digi images at the moment, so I'll let you know how I get on.

mary-op

Hello all :j
Sally and thrifty - big hugs ((((((:o)))))........wish you lots of luck.........persevere............the forums sounds like a good idea where you can draw on the experiences of others in the same situation. Bless you both.......as if life ain't hard enough:A

I'm still having problems with button bracelets...........three days of p*****ing about with elastic cotton is driving me nuts :eek: So, given up - again - for now.

paddingtondoo

Sally & Thrifty - have you contacted social services? Plus get your councillor involved - they seem to wave magic wands at least where I work .

Flourgirl - totally missed about your nephew - big hugs

Rusty - I got 3 issues of cardmaking and papercrafting for £3 and still subscribe - I like the mag plus the free gifts are normally great (MME papers was one) have just got the new issue and (nips off to open it) its a bentley bear decoupage kit.

Just back from taking DD shopping for new clothes - wasn't actually too bad - plus she's happy to wander round the Range unlike OH - I managed to go in there and not spend any money :D

Gemm85

tinypablo congrats to your SIL :j

oh dear thrifty and sally, sending big hugs to you both xx

rusty well done on your win - you are certainly on a roll and they say things come in three's so...! I subscribe to cardmaking and papercraft and do consider it to be one of the better mags out there, they usually have a decent free gift too.

I have had my new issue of it this morning and I was just reading a tip in there about promarkers and blender pens - and they said one way you use it is to hold the coloured promarker nib against the blender pen so it 'takes on' a bit of colour, then use the blender pen on your image for a softer look. anyone tried it like this? I dnt have a blender pen myself but I recall someone on here mentioning it a while ago and saying that it just seemed to 'bleach' the colour out of their image? I'm thinking I might get one now and try it the way the magazine advised - oh and FWIW I use a Memento inkpad for using with my promarkers

postie has just been and brought my crafts u love order of some ribbons, lacy ribbon and an embossing folder, still no sign of the scor-pal though oh well, at this rate I'll be looking for one at the NEC :rotfl: less than 2 weeks to go now, I am getting excited

Gemm85

paddingtondoo wrote: »

Rusty - I got 3 issues of cardmaking and papercrafting for £3 and still subscribe - I like the mag plus the free gifts are normally great (MME papers was one) have just got the new issue and (nips off to open it) its a bentley bear decoupage kit.

I did the same thing padster, got it for the £3 offer and liked it so much I carried on with it along with that and the Docrafts mag (which I dont subscribe to) they are the ones I have every issue, other mags I only get if there is something good free that I want