I’ve watched Tim Holtz and Carol Duvall on YouTube making what seems like a pretty easy project, until I tried it for myself.  Maybe the miracle of television made it look easy, or maybe they weren’t telling the whole story.  I’m not sure, but what I do know is this.  It wasn’t easy and mine didn’t turn out anything like theirs did.  It was a way to create a stamp pad that is colored specifically for a particular stamp.  Using re inkers for Distress Inks, you first stamp the image with archival ink on a foam piece, then draw the lines in with re inker in the colors that you would use if you were coloring it in.  Then you stamp on the foam and then stamp on card stock and ta da, you have an image that you can use a water brush and make it look like it’s been water colored.  Really?  It didn’t work that way for me.  I used Ranger foam that’s specifically made to use as a stamp pad.  I used Distress Inks.  I used a water brush.  The re inker dried onto the card stock before I could use the water brush.  On the video, Tim Holtz said you could stamp it one week and color it in the next week.  I couldn’t move my color within a minute of stamping it.  It really looked easy when they did it.  I’ve watched that video so many times, I practically have it memorized.  I’m just not sure what I missed.  What a huge waste of re inker.  Maybe once I’ve had time to think about it, I’ll try it again.  Or maybe someone reading this will say, “Geez Sandy, did you do this or that?”  And then I’ll smack myself on the forehead and say, “Gee, I should have had a V8.”   Then again, maybe not.

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