Making your own Embossing Ink for your craft projects is relatively easy and inexpensive. Embossing ink is meant to be used with embossing powders to create a raised effect on paper or fabric.
Rit Powdered Clothes Dye (any color)
1/4 Teaspoon Alcohol
5 Tablespoons Glycerin
Carefully blend dye & alcohol until it’s the consistency of thin cream, starting with 1/2 tsp of p. dye and continue adding 1/8 tsp at a time until the consistency of a thin cream.
Add glycerin. Blend Well.
Pour homemade ink over stamp pad or a fine grain foam-rubber pad. Spread the ink evenly with a brush, popsicle stick, or back of a spoon.
Other Tips:
To Use small sponges as ink pads. cut compressed sponges into thin strips while dry and then add ink. It will create a thin smooth ink pad.
This one works wonderfully 🙂
thank you for this recipe! i will try it out…have never seen one of these before!
this is absolutely wonderful! i love using embossing ink, but they are very pricey and currently out of my budget range. i will have to try making some of this up for an old versamark pad i have that could use a little re-inking.
(has anyone tried that? if so, have you experienced any problems?)
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i can’t wait to try this! thank you!
Wow, I had no idea this could be made at home! I’m definitely going to to make this when my current supply is gone.
Thanks for the recipe. Will be trying this soon.