I love using Catherine Pooler inks for stamping. There are so many color choices and the saturation and vibrancy of the colors are amazing. Currently, she has four different collections of ink under two categories...Life of the Party as well as the Spa Collection. As you can imagine from the names, Life of the Party ink colors are very colorful and bright while the Spa inks are more muted tones. Even the names of the ink colors relate to the collection themes!
My cards below were made with four colors from each ink collection. The first card used colors from the Life of the Party collection. I used Tiki Torch, Lime Rickey, Aquatini, and Pixie Dust. I used the direct to paper method with the Pixie Dust ink pad to add color to a panel to create the purple frame for the backdrop to the card. In both examples, I used the Catherine Pooler stamp set called Say it in Diamonds.
On my second card I chose four colors from the Spa Collection that were similar to the inks from the first card. I think the Spa inks lend themselves wonderfully to use for masculine themed cards. I used the colors Sauna, Eucalyptus, Daydream, and Royal Treatment. Again, I used the purple ink, Royal Treatment, direct to the paper to create the frame for the card panel.
I hope this inspires you to create something two different ways!
