Craft Tips
Inking Techniques 101
Jan
If you’re looking to give your paper projects extra pop and more dimension, I highly recommend investing in some inks and ink applicators. It’s very easy, very fun and very meditative. To help you see how this is accomplished, we’ve gathered several of our assembly tutorials where I showcase various inking methods. To save you time, the videos will start at the relevant point where the inking begins. Simply click the play button to watch each video.
Inking supplies
In this tutorial, I show you how to ink the free Gingerbread Tea Light Place Set. In addition, I go over the Dreaming Tree app where you can learn about the supplies we use, including the inks and pads used in this video.
Download The Dreaming Tree App Download Gingerbread Tea LightIn this video, I show you how to ink after embossing. To see the entire video you can click the link here.
In the following tutorial, I go over the technique for inking flowers from our Floral Arrangment which is part of the Alluring Florals SVG Bundle
Here is another great example of inking flowers for the Toujours L’Amour Heart from our My Lovely Valentine SVG Bundle.
And lastly, I go over the inking on this cute freebie, the 4 U Apple Card.
Fantastic Demos, Love them. Thanks so much for all your hard work. It makes putting them together seamless.
Thank you so much for doing this for us, Mike! GREATLY appreciated!
It is so nice to have this to refer to. I have had mixed results with inking my projects. I like the results of the inked projects and after watching these two encouraging videos, I will practice on scraps and order the felt applicators. They look like they will produce the results I want to achieve while building my skills
Best website for paper crafting! Step-by-step tutorials to help you complete your project. I’ve learned so much from Leo and his team! Thank you!
When using a cutout in the middle how do you ink? Example is a word that is cutout and layered, I want to add dimension to the word before putting it on the bottom layer.
Hi Charlotte. If the letter is for say an O then you would just need to use a corner of the applicator pad to get in there the best you can. Hope this helps.
I am making the free carrot card. How do you do print and cut?
Hi, Denise! We have a tutorial in our Design Space help section to show you how to do Print N Cut: https://3dsvg.com/cricut-design-space-help/
You will find the topic under the Advanced FAQs and titled How do I use Print N Cut , Captions and Sentiments in Design Space.
Hope this helps, please let me know if you still have any other questions. https://3dsvg.com/contact/
thank you so much for your videos which are a great help and inspiration for a newbie
Thanks Leo. Great tips and now I’m off to practice, practice, practice….
Thank you for these tutorials on inking. I am new to your site and was glad to be able to find these videos on the inking technique that Leo mentions. Keep up the great work!
Mike my VersaMagic ink pads are dry what do you recommend I do for them to work. Just got 3 12 packs. Help!
Hi Angie. I am sorry you are having issues, we haven’t had issues with the ink pads being dry. I would definitely take or send them back as defective, they should be nice and juicy. ~Mike
Hi! I’m having a problem with my ink disappearing. It looks great after I get it applied but later, it’s gone. I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. Thanks for helping!
Hi Lindi, generally when ink dries it gets lighter. You may have to initially apply more to begin with or add more once dry. 🙂 ~Mike
Thanks so much.