Getting Organized and Ink Swatches

Gina K. Ink Swatches

A long time ago, in the 1990's when I still had remnants of big hair, I fell in love with stamping.  I was all in for quite a while (about 10-12 years) until I started a family.  Then, my stamp room was taken over by little people.  Now, they are growing up and I have "reclaimed" my craft area.  I'm starting to inventory what I have and what I "need" to purchase/replace.  Some significant changes have occurred while I was away including stamp platforms, wafer thin dies, clear stamps, and more.  For now I have decided to use Gina K. Designs ink cubes and cardstock along with Altenew ink cubes.

I love how Gina K. inks and papers work together and the quality is excellent.  Also, I'm in Wisconsin and it feels good to help a fellow Cheesehead!  What attracted me to the Altenew ink cubes is they come in sets and I really like the colors.  I searched all over to find images of the stamped inks and there are not many out there so I'm going to get some posted here to help others.  So far I have played around with my Gina K. ink cubes and you can see some swatches here.  I'm still deciding if I want to go the Jennifer McGuire ink swatching system, or just swatch them all on a page. The image here is a 6 x 8 piece of cardstock in a page protector.  I will get some better quality images up soon.  I snapped this quick with my phone.

The Stamping Village Creativation 2019 Mail Delivery Stamp Set

This set just arrived the other day and I'm really excited to start using it.  It's a collaboration of several stamp companies.  They were part of The Stamping Village at Creativation 2019.  The name of the set is Mail Delivery.

Companies/People Represented:
Altenew
Art Impressions
Dare 2B Artsy
Concord & 9th
Gina K. Designs
Hero Arts
Lawn Fawn
Pink Fresh Studio
Waffle Flower
Jennifer McGuire