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.