What can you do with Memento Luxe?

I volunteered to write an article for Imagine about the wonderful ink known as Memento Luxe.  Enjoy!

Memento Luxe is a fabulous pigment ink that comes in 24 colors that coordinate with Memento dye based inks, Memento Dual Tipped Markers, Fireworks! shimmer sprays, irRESISTilbe Texture Sprays, and irRESISTilbe Pico Embellishers.   It is water-based, archival, and acid free so it is great for card making and scrapbooking.  Memento Luxe ink pads are very juicy and can be used on many surfaces both light and dark colored.  

This fun tag uses Memento Luxe Wedding White on black cardstock for a quick but stand-out statement.  If your pad is a bit older, re-inking the pad will give you the best results on dark cardstock. 

Since the Memento Luxe has a longer dry time, amazing ombré effects can be achieved by blending with an Ink Blusher or Sponge Dauber.  More than one color can also be successfully blended to create a beautiful seamless color range.  Here Dandelion is blended into Pear Tart, in turn into Danube Blue on Strathmore Bristol Board.  The sentiment is stamped in Danube Blue ink and is heat embossed with clear embossing powder, which acts as a resist to the coordinating Fireworks! sprays.

As a pigment based ink it is perfect for embossing on paper, chipboard, or wood.  When used on glossy cardstock or vellum it should be embossed because the ink will not dry on slick surfaces. 

Memento Luxe is wonderful for stamping or blending on fabric, wood, canvas, or other porous surfaces.   As it is a pigment based ink it is resistant to fading on all surfaces.  When used on fabric the Memento Luxe is heat-set with an iron at the appropriate fabric setting so it can be laundered and will remain as bright and pigmented as when the ink is first applied.  Heat setting is also recommended for other mixed media surfaces as the ink may smear due to the long dry time.  Butterflies are flying around this time of year and Memento Luxe ink made creating this canvas bag a breeze with a stencil, Ink Daubers, and Jumbo Ink Daubers.  The vines are outlined in Pear Tart and Pistachio, the butterflies are inked in Dandelion, Morocco, and Rhubarb Stalk.  This ink is so easy to use on fabric that both sides of this bag were completed in under an hour!  

A fun and out-of-the-box use for Memento Luxe is to use an inker and mix with Creative Medium.  Place the Creative Medium on a craft mat and squeeze a bit of Memento Luxe ink and mix with a palette knife before applying to a project.  Memento Luxe is richly pigmented and will expand Creative Medium’s color range, with the big plus of matching the other Memento based lines!

This welcome sign uses Lilac Posies mixed with Creative Medium and then applied with a palette knife through a heart stencil.  After the heart dries, the sentiment is stamped in Pear Tart and heat embossed with clear embossing powder on the slick chalk board surface. 

Memento Luxe is one of the most versatile inks in the Imagine line and as illustrated can be used on so many surfaces.  Stock up on all the colors and their inkers and have fun creating!  

Imagine

Memento Luxe—Wedding Dress, Dandelion, Pear Tart, DanubeBlue, Morocco, Rhubarb Stalk, Pistachio

Fireworks!—Dandelion, Pear Tart, Danube Blue

Memento Luxe inker—Lilac Posies

Creative Medium

Embossing Powder—clear

Sponge Dauber—small and large

Ink Blusher

Palette Knife

Other

Black cardstock

The Stamps of Life--Wish2make stamp set

WR Memory Keepers—white grommet

Fibers--unknown

Strathmore Bristol Board

Unity Stamp Company—Create, Share, etc stamp

Create Out Loud--Canvas Bag

The Crafters Workshop--Flutterby TCW206

Make It Love It Chalkboard Plaque Large Fancy Rectangle

Stencil Girl—Heart Striped Stencil

Technique Tuesday--Farmhouse Capital Letters Large

Imagine is hopping along with Stencil Girl

Time for another cross-promotional blog hop, this month it is with Stencil Girl.  There are so many cool designs at Stencil Girl, but as soon as I saw this musical themed stencil, I knew what I wanted to make!   

My oldest niece graduated from college with a degree in Music Education.  She already has a job lined up and is soon going to need to carry a bunch of stuff around.  (Speaking as a teacher myself!)  This personalized cloth bag is functional and washable, and ready to carry around music or lunch as needed!

Level:  Beginner

Time: 30 minutes

After washing the bag, I placed a piece of thick cardboard between the layers to protect the other side of the bag.  The Treble Bass Clef stencil is placed and Memento Luxe in Teal Zeal is inked onto the bag with an ink dauber.  The first image is heat set with an iron before moving to another area of the bag.  Her name is then colored in by using a Fabrico marker #137 Pale Lilac and Ransom Alphabet stencil.  I found it much easier to use a marker over an ink or spray as the color did not smudge as I moved the stencil around to create each letter.  Quick and ready to send to the recipient!  It even doubled as the gift bag for the rest of her graduation gift!

Imagine:

Memento Luxe Teal Zeal

Fabrico #137 Pale Lilac

Stencil Girl

S256 Treble Bass Cleft

L483 Ransom Alphabet

 
One lucky winner will receive both a $25 Gift Certificate to StencilGirl Products AND a $25 Gift Certificate to Imagine Crafts!  Visit the fabulous designers from both teams and comment for your
chance to win!  The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!  (One comment per blog please.)  You have until Sunday, July 23rd at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.  Winner will be announced on  StencilGirl's Facebook page and Imagine Crafts’s Facebook page on Monday, July 24th.  Please make sure you leave us a way to contact you, an email or blog address!  Have fun looking at all the projects!

Here is the list of all the designers that are posting today and the days before, if you visit us and leave us a comment, you will have the opportunity to win this fabulous prize!

JULY 21

Martha Lucia Gome

Jessica Litman

Alison Heikkila

Belen Sotelo

Torrie Gass

Debi Adams

JULY 20

You are here --> Neva Cole <-- You are here

Kyriakos Pachadiroglou

Renee Zarate

Elina Stromberg

Sandee Setliff

Karen Gaunt

Cindy Gilstrap

Tina Walker

JULY 19

Jennifer Vanderbeek

Nadine Carlier

Roni Johnson

Mischelle Smith

Janet Joehlin

Gwen Lafleur

Carol Baxter

Rainbow Birthday Greetings

 We have a very colorful challenge this go around, use the colors of the rainbow for the Retro Rubber Blog Challenge.  Check out all the lovely creations of the design team for inspiration.

I used my oldest Kaleidacolor ink pad, Spectrum, that I finally had to re-ink after more than 20 years.  I simply ordered the correct color inkers from Imagine online and inked that well-loved pad back up.  I love how vibrant the colors are in the pad, even on matte white cardstock.  The background stamp is a very old Fiskars roller stamp from about 1995.  It is so much fun to use with the Kaleidacolor pad, don’t you think?  Yellow is not included because even with the slide apart feature of the Kaleidacolor ink pad, the yellow would get muddied by the surrounding colors.  So, I added in a big of yellow with the sentiment and stars.  Actually, a while back I spilled one of my go to colors of Fireworks! Sprays, Dandelion, and didn’t want to waste it so I placed a piece of Bristol Board over the top and soaked it up.  The sentiment is from the Sizzix 55921 Card Regal Stand ups, and the stars and hearts are from Sizzix 661563 Happy Birthday Framelits, both Stephanie Barnard designs.  The hearts got a little spritz of Fireworks! In Sweet Plum to keep the bling going for the embellishments.  To make the hearts and stars stand out a tiny bit more I inked the edges with a brush tip Tuxedo Black Memento Dual Tip Marker.  The sentiment and the card front are backed in black cardstock.  A bit of foam adhesive helps the die cuts pop up on the busy colorful background!

Do come and join the fun at Retro Rubber Blog Challenge and share your own rainbow creation.  Remember to use at least one stamp that is more than a year old and to enter only up to 10 challenges.  Easy peasy, right?

Shellabrate Your Birthday For Imagine and Waffle Flower

 Aren’t these turtles so cute?  Waffle Flower joined Imagine for the month of July in a cross company promotional.  The images from the Shellabrate and Snail Mail stamp and die sets create a wonderfully whimsical underwater scene.  The turtles and sign are stamped in Jet Black StazOn ink, and the greenery is stamped in StazOn Cactus Green and Forest Green.  The images are then water colored with Memento Dual Tip Markers in Cottage Ivy, New Sprout, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves, Peanut Brittle, and Toffee Crunch. The background sand is stamped and water colored with Memento Toffee Crunch.  The bubbles are added in Memento Bahama Blue.  The die cut images are adhered with varying heights of adhesive to give some fun dimension.  A perfect summer birthday card anyone would enjoy receiving! 

Imagine

StazOn—Jet Black, Cactus Green, Forest Green

Memento—Summer Sky, Bahama Blue, Cottage Ivy, Toffee Crunch

Memento Dual Tip Marker—Peanut Brittle, Toffee Crunch, Cottage Ivy, New Sprout, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves

Other

Waffle Flower--Shellabrate stamp and die sets, Snail Mail stamp and die sets

Mr. & Mrs. for Retro Rubber Wedding Theme

Summer time means wedding season!  We can all have a wedding card in our stash, and now is the time to create one and play along with the latest Retro Rubber Blog Challenge.

Life has been a bit crazy as school is finally out!  So I opted for a clean and simple design with embossed and die cut details.  

Darice’s Script background which is a paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 13, a beautiful design for a wedding card, and it is pressure embossed on Canson silver cardstock.  I used two different Stamp and Cut sets by Hero Arts for this card, both released in 2014.  The “Yes” set is on the front with the Mr. & Mrs. sentiment.  It is stamped in Delicata Silvery Shimmer and is die cut with the heart from the set.  The edges of the heart are inked in Delicata Black Shimmer.  A section of white cardstock was sprayed with Sheer Shimmer Spritz in Frost and then die cut for the bride’s wedding dress and the groom’s shirt.  It is a bit hard to see in the photo against the silver background.  The groom’s tux is die cut from glossy black cardstock.  The little shirt piece is easily adhered with On Point blue.  These are from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Wedding Charms, the little loop was trimmed off.  The edges of the cardbase were inked with Delicata Black Shimmer before the card was assembled.  The die cuts are adhered with dimensional foam adhesive.  I do think the little bride and groom are adorable!

The second Stamp and Cut set by Hero Arts, Congrats is used on the inside.  Congrats on your marriage is stamped in Delicatata Black Shimmer.  Clean, simple, and lovely is what I like to say!  Do join us over at Retro Rubber and create your own wedding design!

I am delighted to enter the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge Blog “H” is for hearts

Fussy and Fancy #190 Punches and Dies
Just for Fun Rubber Stamps Wedding Bells

Newberry VNM with Stick It Down

Need some inspiration to do a little scrapbooking?  Stick It Down has just the sketch for you!  Join along with this challenge and enter your layout!  There is also a Single Page sketch and a card sketch to play along with at SID.

I love that this sketch has loads of photos, great for a layout of a field trip with my son!  The Tamarack trees had changed color and that seemed to be the best color to use for background cardstock.

Die Cuts With a View Adventurer paper collection was the perfect patterned paper choice, and a few tree die cuts from my stash added the right embellishments.  I've had these tree die cuts for so long I don't have a clue to their origin.  A little inking with Versa Magic inks add just the right high and low lights to the trees.  I pulled out my sticker selection to create a title, both Making Memories and Francis Meyer alphabets were used in a Forrest Green.  Needed both sizes since the title was super long!  Keeping with the tree theme I used pine cones to finish the layout.  What a great way to remember a fun day with my son and his class last fall!