Crafting Ida blessed me with Printworks ink when she was luring me into this whole card making thing. She had gone over to Stampin Up and decided to share her old inks. Ida is good that way. I loved her little tip to me about how to keep track of ink and match it to paper.
She took a piece of white cardstock and sectioned off the paper adding labels: Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Purple, and Brown. Then she took each of her stamp pads and grouped them together. Starting with Red, she numbered them on the stamp pads themselves with permanent blank ink. The matching numbers went on the cardstock. With a little heart stamp, she carefully inked each color.
Ida put her ink pads into plastic containers. One plastic container is labeled Red... another Green... etc. When I want one of the inks, I just look on this paper and can match exactly what I need. Then I dig in the appropriate container and pick out the Number. It is so simple and such a time saver.
I only have four Stampin Up pads so far, so my numbers will fall in different places. I got busy the other day and dug out my four SU inks and got my page ready to go. I really like this idea and it isn't hard to do. I'll continue that as I add more ink pads.
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