Thank you, Cathy. This video was not only inspiring because I've been thinking about doing this for y-e-a-r-s... but also because you make it look so ease. Thank you too for sharing your Frame/Cover labels.
You inspired me!! I’ve bought “the things “ and they came in .. I came back to see where you put them on the misti. We’ve moved and I’ve lost my misti…lol and my brand new circuit …that’s an uggg I’ll probably find them as we’re in the middle of renovations. I just needed to do something fun in the evenings. I haven’t made a card yet but thought this would be fun!! I’m 63 and just starting paper crafts. Looks so fun I couldn’t resist. You are one of the people who inspired me after I retired and started watching TH-cam. Want to thank you!
Oh that is wonderful to hear! (the starting paper crafts, not the lost things! haha! I have lost things too, as I'm moving into a different room in my house!) Keep it up! It's seriously fun and addicting!
I had cut a stack of Waffle Flower tags about 8 months ago or so.... it was about 3" high. I swatched my PFS inks and Distress Oxide inks today. I now need to cut about 1.5" worth of tags for the Distress Inks and the few Altenew cubes I have. Definitely a labor of love, but oh my gosh! You forget how pretty some of the colors are and you wonder why you havent used it much before. Found several that I now "need" to use! It also gave me some ideas to try out and it was just plain fun to be in my craft room for a few hours piddling. Only end goal was swatching the inks. No pressure, just some me time. Thanks for the oomph to get them done!
Hi Cathy :) Sometimes I think my hobby is craft supply collecting and organizing rather than actual stamping! Lol. I enjoyed your video. I believe you have shown the colours swathed out on a chart before but would it be possible for you to show a closer look at these swatches on your blog? I have so many inks! I really do not need another full collection but I would like to pick up a few colours to fill in some gaps. Have an Awesome day 😎
I’m the same exact way. I could open up a store with all my brand new supplies. I just started swatching my inks. They’re in a swatch book I purchased on Amazon.
I have swatched my inks on 2x2 squares in a binder, but I think I’ll do my most frequently used inks on a ring like this! It’ll be much more handy! You always have the best ideas and I love your videos. And on a side note, your hair is looking so pretty grown out long like that!
I did this about two yrs ago for my different types of colored cardstock. On one ring I have all my Bazzill color, and Bazzill textured paper each labeled on one ring and It hangs on a hook in my dreambox. After I finished, I started swatching my inks as well. I have the entire waffle flower swatch combo and same brother label maker you have Cathy. The waffle flower swatch dies are great! I used the same swatch rubber stamps also. I've been working on and off for about 2.5 years getting all my different brands of inks, and papers swatched. Its totally worth the time. This is a great video to show crafters this how to make ink swatches. Nice job Cathy, in the craft/👉 dinning room.😉 My crafting area is in the den off of the living room. So its referred to as the "Crafting den." Have a great day Cathy, love and hugs!
Cathy, this is AWESOME! Fixing to get started and thanks so much for coming up with this idea. You said to let you know what other stamp companies we would like you to add to your swatch groups. Sooooo Stampin' Up, Archival, Memento, Adirondack and Maker Forte. Thank you so much.
Hi Cathy! How are you???? I just started watching but HAD to tell you right away, PA-LEEZE do yourself a favor and buy the sizzix sticky sheets and put that in your misti. I PROMISE you will be thanking yourself and just thinking why didn’t I do this for so long! Really, it makes it so nice with no magnets.
Just ordered the die and stamp set for this! Great idea, am excited to do this. Love watching you. Always puts me in a good mood and inspired to create!!!
Thanks to your original swatch video, I have swatched all of my inks and have done something similar with my COPIC and Crafters Companion alcohol inks. Can’t tell you how helpful they have all been in selecting just the right colors. Thank you so much for your inspiration and laughs! 😁
I love this! The three swatch strips per color provides a good representation of how the inks will perform on the paper (I usually use the same paper stock). Since I'm newer to collecting ink pads, having the tags on a ring would make it so easy to grab/go when I'm shopping for new ink pads at my local craft store and ensure I don't double-dip!
Cathy, when I am printing a number of labels in one strip, and I am ready to separate and stick I do this: I pull off the entire backing to one point, not too long, and stick the first to hang off a non-stick surface. Then I trim it for the next label, and stick that to the surface. I pull off backing as I go. Then the labels are all stuck to the surface and ready to go!
Thanks, Cathy! I use Jennifer McGuire's Swatch Squares for all the different companies since they are pre-made and ready to cut and ink, but I can see how larger ones are nice for seeing the dyes/inks on the variety of stamps. 👍🏻❣️
Thank you Cathy! This is such a great idea! Fairly new to stamping, I don't have all that many inks yet but I am going to start now to swatch my inks. I appreciate you sharing this!
Hello Cathy! I needed a system to keep track of my inks. Your video was just what I needed. Just want to thank you for sharing your tips & the download. Sending sincere Thanks! 🥰
Thanks for sharing the tip Cathy (especially the stamp set). I started making swatches when I first began crafting (about 10 years ago) but found that I had to create a second lot of swatches to indicate the change between stamping and blending the same inks. Blending tends to lighten the colours. To accommodate this I now stamp on one side and blend on the other. Its a bit more work but worth the effort.
These look really nice! I always wondered why do swatches, but I get it now, they never look like you think they will. I really like these! I almost bought another collection of PSI this last sale but they’re out of all but one. I still have the stampin up but I took all my stamps out and I think when I get a full set of CP I’ll get rid of them and then I will add the PSI too. Then I’ll have oxides, PSI , and CP. Well that’s my dream. How nice of you to make those covers! Thank you! I have a cardstock ring and love it so I’m gonna do this! Thanks hun! Hugs!
Thank you Cathy! I have been waiting for the SSS swatch books to come back in stock, but I think I like this WF die better, since it can be used essentially forever!
Thank you for sharing your approach. I've looked at that stamp set many times. It might magically make it to my cart next time I place a Simon order. 😉 I just made a swatch sheet for my Maker Forte inks today, but think I might do separate swatches. Would you mind adding them to your list?
I love this idea , I have another tag die I could use to do this, I would find it easier to use too. Also would look great hanging from my peg board system lol
Wow! That is a great idea, very useful, and it looks so pretty too. Thank you so much for the PDF I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again. Watching you just makes me happy. Keep bringing the smiles! :)
Very impressive with your organization!! What I would like is some honest/unbiased opinions on differences between: Gina K, Simon Says, Altenew & Catherine Pooler inks. Or is it really 6 of one, half dozen of the other and comes down to color preferences?????? I'd be every so appreciative!
Hey Cathy! I love your videos, and I have swatched my inks, but loved the Simon set of cute stamps to do them with, so I’m redoing them with this set. Could you possible add Lawn Fawn to your cover sheets? Thanks so much!!
Hi. They look so sweet and it's a really good idea. That's a lot of cardstock you managed to get through but I think it may well be worthwhile so I shall give it a go. I don't have as many inks as you have so I don't see me running short of cardstock. Thank you for sharing this.
Hey Cathy TFS I haven’t done this before so found your tutorial very helpful going to swatch my Gina K and Oxide collections today cheers Jackie from Oz 😊🤩
Thank you Cathy, that's so nice of you to share with us. Do you by chance have the Catherine Pooler ink colors? They are truly amazing and the only complete set I own. I have several distress, SSS paw inks, and Simon Hurley inks, just not the entire set.
Thank you for another helpful video. I have swatch rings for my cardstock but never thought about doing this for my inks. Great idea! Question....why did you use three different patterns for the swatch stamps?
It's me again..... I'm sorry, I asked for Stampin' Up, but see that it is in your original tags. So probably a dumb question, but do you put the color swatches in order, like pinks/reds, yellows, greens, etc?
@@czdesign do you hang them? I’m intrigued by this idea. I think swatching inks is smart but I wouldn’t know where to put it afterwards if I switched my own inks ☺️
Well, not exactly. What I am saying is that any dye ink from any brand, if exposed to DIRECT sunlight, not light, can fade. : ) I have an ink shelf on my wall with three different dye ink brads. It gets direct sun every day. Many the tiny swatch dots i popped onto the edges of the pads have faded. Not all, but many. So I like to keep my swatches out of the light now.
I can't get the swatch download, I get an error message. NOT FOUND, ERROR 404 The page you are looking for no longer exists. Perhaps you can return back to the homepage and see if you can find what you are looking for. Or, you can try finding it by using the search form below. Any advice or suggestions?
Hey there. I wanted to let you know that the link to the inks doesn’t have the actual sets of pads for 2 out of the 4 . It had the refill sets, but someone new that doesn’t know there’s 4 might not catch that. I looked thru 3xs. Still could be me, but you might want to clean it out. I didn’t see them.
stamping twice is kind of a cheat, isn't it? Inks are supposed to stamp with one impression, that's what we pay the big bucks for quality inks for. Stamping a large solid stamp may require two stampings, but nothing else should?
Oh not at all. I stamp nearly everything twice, all the time, with every ink company I have. Maybe it's because I have wrist issues and don't press super hard? But my experience with nearly all of my dye based inks is I stamp twice.
Thank you, Cathy. This video was not only inspiring because I've been thinking about doing this for y-e-a-r-s... but also because you make it look so ease. Thank you too for sharing your Frame/Cover labels.
You can do it!
You inspired me!! I’ve bought “the things “ and they came in ..
I came back to see where you put them on the misti.
We’ve moved and I’ve lost my misti…lol
and my brand new circuit …that’s an uggg
I’ll probably find them as we’re in the middle of renovations. I just needed to do something fun in the evenings.
I haven’t made a card yet but thought this would be fun!!
I’m 63 and just starting paper crafts. Looks so fun I couldn’t resist. You are one of the people who inspired me after I retired and started watching TH-cam.
Want to thank you!
Oh that is wonderful to hear! (the starting paper crafts, not the lost things! haha! I have lost things too, as I'm moving into a different room in my house!) Keep it up! It's seriously fun and addicting!
I find it helpful to see what the second generation stamping looks like. You could flip the tag over and second stamp on the back
I had cut a stack of Waffle Flower tags about 8 months ago or so.... it was about 3" high. I swatched my PFS inks and Distress Oxide inks today. I now need to cut about 1.5" worth of tags for the Distress Inks and the few Altenew cubes I have. Definitely a labor of love, but oh my gosh! You forget how pretty some of the colors are and you wonder why you havent used it much before. Found several that I now "need" to use! It also gave me some ideas to try out and it was just plain fun to be in my craft room for a few hours piddling. Only end goal was swatching the inks. No pressure, just some me time. Thanks for the oomph to get them done!
Hi Cathy :) Sometimes I think my hobby is craft supply collecting and organizing rather than actual stamping! Lol. I enjoyed your video. I believe you have shown the colours swathed out on a chart before but would it be possible for you to show a closer look at these swatches on your blog? I have so many inks! I really do not need another full collection but I would like to pick up a few colours to fill in some gaps. Have an Awesome day 😎
Yes, I created sheets for simon says stamp! I don't have a blog post for that though. If you email me I can send you the most updated one!
I'm with you Mary!! I feel the exact same way!
@@czdesign thank you. I will do that :)
@@karenjudy6936 it's nice to know I'm not alone 🤣
I’m the same exact way. I could open up a store with all my brand new supplies. I just started swatching my inks. They’re in a swatch book I purchased on Amazon.
I have swatched my inks on 2x2 squares in a binder, but I think I’ll do my most frequently used inks on a ring like this! It’ll be much more handy! You always have the best ideas and I love your videos. And on a side note, your hair is looking so pretty grown out long like that!
I did this about two yrs ago for my different types of colored cardstock. On one ring I have all my Bazzill color, and Bazzill textured paper each labeled on one ring and It hangs on a hook in my dreambox. After I finished, I started swatching my inks as well. I have the entire waffle flower swatch combo and same brother label maker you have Cathy. The waffle flower swatch dies are great! I used the same swatch rubber stamps also. I've been working on and off for about 2.5 years getting all my different brands of inks, and papers swatched. Its totally worth the time. This is a great video to show crafters this how to make ink swatches. Nice job Cathy, in the craft/👉 dinning room.😉
My crafting area is in the den off of the living room. So its referred to as the "Crafting den." Have a great day Cathy, love and hugs!
Jolly good idea. Thank you Cathy. x
You are so welcome
Cathy, this is AWESOME! Fixing to get started and thanks so much for coming up with this idea. You said to let you know what other stamp companies we would like you to add to your swatch groups. Sooooo Stampin' Up, Archival, Memento, Adirondack and Maker Forte. Thank you so much.
Hey Susan, Stampin' up is in there. Can you please email me those other requests? cathy@cathyzielske.com
Swatching is so helpful. Thank you, Cathy, for the printable. I'm going to make good use of it.
Have fun!
Hi Cathy! How are you???? I just started watching but HAD to tell you right away, PA-LEEZE do yourself a favor and buy the sizzix sticky sheets and put that in your misti. I PROMISE you will be thanking yourself and just thinking why didn’t I do this for so long! Really, it makes it so nice with no magnets.
I love the swatches on a ring! This would work out better for me than having an entire page in a 3-ring notebook. Thank you!
Thank you for creating this download Cathy ❤
You are so welcome!
Just ordered the die and stamp set for this! Great idea, am excited to do this. Love watching you. Always puts me in a good mood and inspired to create!!!
Enjoy your swatching!
Thanks to your original swatch video, I have swatched all of my inks and have done something similar with my COPIC and Crafters Companion alcohol inks. Can’t tell you how helpful they have all been in selecting just the right colors. Thank you so much for your inspiration and laughs! 😁
You are slick!!! 😇. Ty for yet another project to remind me of my lacking. Sigh.
No lacking! It's just a good project for a rainy day or for when you maybe aren't feeling as creative!
I love this! The three swatch strips per color provides a good representation of how the inks will perform on the paper (I usually use the same paper stock). Since I'm newer to collecting ink pads, having the tags on a ring would make it so easy to grab/go when I'm shopping for new ink pads at my local craft store and ensure I don't double-dip!
Cathy, when I am printing a number of labels in one strip, and I am ready to separate and stick I do this: I pull off the entire backing to one point, not too long, and stick the first to hang off a non-stick surface. Then I trim it for the next label, and stick that to the surface. I pull off backing as I go. Then the labels are all stuck to the surface and ready to go!
Love this idea! Just found you today. Love your channel. Going to do this with my inks.
Have fun!
Omg, Cassandra. It feels like a million years. I’ve been taking a lot of time to contemplate the metaphysical. Thank you for your words of wisdom.
Thanks, Cathy! I use Jennifer McGuire's Swatch Squares for all the different companies since they are pre-made and ready to cut and ink, but I can see how larger ones are nice for seeing the dyes/inks on the variety of stamps. 👍🏻❣️
I love those too!
Oh to be so organized. And to have so many beautiful inks. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you Cathy! This is such a great idea! Fairly new to stamping, I don't have all that many inks yet but I am going to start now to swatch my inks. I appreciate you sharing this!
Have fun!
Thank you so much Cathy for the free download 💜
OMG this was already my next crafty plan. I just got the waffle flower die and swatch stamps a few days ago. Perfect timing!!!!!
Love this so much!
Hello Cathy! I needed a system to keep track of my inks. Your video was just what I needed. Just want to thank you for sharing your tips & the download. Sending sincere Thanks! 🥰
Oh my goodness. Lizbeth. THANK YOU. Wow. Unexpected and tremendously appreciated.
@@czdesign This is the grateful Nurse Practitioner that you graciously shared your stamp set with a few months ago. So grateful! Thank you! 💞
This is perfect now to see what shape tag dies I have. Thank you so much for all that sharing and caring you give to us!
Thanks for sharing the tip Cathy (especially the stamp set). I started making swatches when I first began crafting (about 10 years ago) but found that I had to create a second lot of swatches to indicate the change between stamping and blending the same inks. Blending tends to lighten the colours. To accommodate this I now stamp on one side and blend on the other. Its a bit more work but worth the effort.
That's a great idea!
Thanks, Cathy, easy to understand!
It’s Red Berry night in McKinney. Lol. Thank you so much for using our Debby Tool. Those sample cards are so cute.
These look really nice! I always wondered why do swatches, but I get it now, they never look like you think they will. I really like these! I almost bought another collection of PSI this last sale but they’re out of all but one. I still have the stampin up but I took all my stamps out and I think when I get a full set of CP I’ll get rid of them and then I will add the PSI too. Then I’ll have oxides, PSI , and CP. Well that’s my dream. How nice of you to make those covers! Thank you! I have a cardstock ring and love it so I’m gonna do this! Thanks hun! Hugs!
Can you add Taylored Expressions to the swatch template! Thanks for doing this for us!
Oh, will do!!! Look for that update in the morning!
I have only a few colors but I would buy them all just to make cool swatches!
Love this idea! I’ve swatched most my inks and it made a huge difference
It really does!
Thanks for the free download. I have Versafine Clair ink pads so it would be great to have that added.
That's a great idea!
Great Idea! Thanks Cathy.
Super handy idea! Thank you!!
Great video. Thank you for the free download.
Enjoy!
Great ideas, especially the cover plate one. You are such an inspiration 👍
Great idea love your ideas and organization you definitely rock! Thanks
Thank you!
Thank you Cathy! I have been waiting for the SSS swatch books to come back in stock, but I think I like this WF die better, since it can be used essentially forever!
Yes! it can! OR, if you have a tag die of your own, you can use that too!
I JUST got 32 juicy ink pads from my local thrift store and just finished watching them when your video popped up!
Now that is a thrift score!
Up to now I’ve used full sheet swatch charts but I’m for sure going to switch over to this method! Thanks for that and for the download!
Thank you for sharing your approach. I've looked at that stamp set many times. It might magically make it to my cart next time I place a Simon order. 😉 I just made a swatch sheet for my Maker Forte inks today, but think I might do separate swatches. Would you mind adding them to your list?
I can! Can you email me that request and I'll send that to you directly.
I love this idea , I have another tag die I could use to do this, I would find it easier to use too. Also would look great hanging from my peg board system lol
Wow! That is a great idea, very useful, and it looks so pretty too. Thank you so much for the PDF
I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again. Watching you just makes me happy. Keep bringing the smiles! :)
Glad you like it!
Very impressive with your organization!! What I would like is some honest/unbiased opinions on differences between: Gina K, Simon Says, Altenew & Catherine Pooler inks. Or is it really 6 of one, half dozen of the other and comes down to color preferences?????? I'd be every so appreciative!
I have only used Simon, Gina K. Concord and Pinkfresh! Those are the companies whose inks I own!
Honestly? I think all the major companies make fabulous inks!
Great Idea to use the mini texture stamps. I have a couple brands of that type of stamp. I am going to get this done.
Hey Cathy! I love your videos, and I have swatched my inks, but loved the Simon set of cute stamps to do them with, so I’m redoing them with this set. Could you possible add Lawn Fawn to your cover sheets? Thanks so much!!
Hey Gina! I think I did! Check out the updated sheet on my site!
Hi. They look so sweet and it's a really good idea. That's a lot of cardstock you managed to get through but I think it may well be worthwhile so I shall give it a go. I don't have as many inks as you have so I don't see me running short of cardstock. Thank you for sharing this.
Awesome idea, Cathy! I am going to do this with all my inks!
Yes!
Thank you for the PDF and 🙋♀️🇨🇭
Awesome!!
What great organization
Hey Cathy TFS I haven’t done this before so found your tutorial very helpful going to swatch my Gina K and Oxide collections today cheers Jackie from Oz 😊🤩
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, Cathy! These also are perfect for the G45 tag dies which are the ones I have.
This is very helpful. Thanks !
Thanks so much for a great idea.
Handy tool !!! Love it 💖
I feel called out.. And rightfully so. lol
I love your ideas.
Thanks Pennie!
Super helpful idea, thank you Cathy! Any chance you could add Catherine Pouler and Stampin Up?
I did, Mary! They are both on the printable download, on Page two! : )
@@czdesign Oh my, a Senior Moment!!! Thank you!!🥰
Thank you Cathy, that's so nice of you to share with us. Do you by chance have the Catherine Pooler ink colors? They are truly amazing and the only complete set I own. I have several distress, SSS paw inks, and Simon Hurley inks, just not the entire set.
I do not have any!
Thank you for another helpful video. I have swatch rings for my cardstock but never thought about doing this for my inks. Great idea! Question....why did you use three different patterns for the swatch stamps?
Just to see the difference in how patterns or solids were stamped!
Good idea😊
I love this idea. Could you add Altenew inks
Yes, they are on the list already! You will find them on the download.
How about lawn fawn too
Is there a place to get a list of all of the inks SSS carries? I mean a list of their own inks.
Yes ma'am! Here you go: • SSS Pawsitively Saturated Inks
--- ldli.co/e/yejld2p
It's me again..... I'm sorry, I asked for Stampin' Up, but see that it is in your original tags. So probably a dumb question, but do you put the color swatches in order, like pinks/reds, yellows, greens, etc?
Hey Susan, I do them in rainbow order, yes!
@@czdesign OK thanks Cathy
Would you recommend doing it Jennifer’s way and your way.
Jennifer's way is awesome, too! The coin pocket. I like both. I have done both! I probably use swatch rings more. They are small and portable.
WOW - beautiful swatches!! How long did it take you to make all 60 of them? Just wondering ....... !
Two hours. lol. It was a process.
I'm amazed - it would probably take me two DAYs - at least! ha
I've looked at those dies. BUT! GOOD LORD YA HAVE TO RUN ONE AT A TIME. I HAVE SIMON'S INKS, GINA'S INKS TIM'S INKS. ID BE DAYS DIECUTTING.
Ha! yes, it's a rainy day project for SURE! Took me two hours to complete.
So, once you’ve made your swatches, how or where do you store them?
I keep them near the inks, actually. For now!
@@czdesign do you hang them? I’m intrigued by this idea. I think swatching inks is smart but I wouldn’t know where to put it afterwards if I switched my own inks ☺️
Let me get this right. Are you saying my cards made with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated inks will fade if exposed to light?
Well, not exactly. What I am saying is that any dye ink from any brand, if exposed to DIRECT sunlight, not light, can fade. : )
I have an ink shelf on my wall with three different dye ink brads. It gets direct sun every day. Many the tiny swatch dots i popped onto the edges of the pads have faded. Not all, but many. So I like to keep my swatches out of the light now.
I can't get the swatch download, I get an error message. NOT FOUND, ERROR 404
The page you are looking for no longer exists. Perhaps you can return back to the homepage and see if you can find what you are looking for. Or, you can try finding it by using the search form below. Any advice or suggestions?
Hey Karen, try again. I just purged the cache on my site. Or email me at cathy@cathyzielske.com and I'll send it to you
Am I doing something wrong? I can’t get them to download, it keeps giving me an error code!
Hey Mary, try again. I just purged the cache on my site.
Hey Cathy
Hey there. I wanted to let you know that the link to the inks doesn’t have the actual sets of pads for 2 out of the 4 . It had the refill sets, but someone new that doesn’t know there’s 4 might not catch that. I looked thru 3xs. Still could be me, but you might want to clean it out. I didn’t see them.
I did a new link. Maybe that's better???
Off topic comment: The cleaning of those stamps sounded like a small animal squeak. Lol
Where do I find your e-mail address? I'm thinking a tag for Simon Hurley inks would be good.
Ohhh, totally forgot Simon Hurley. Will add!
Look for that update tomorrow morning!
❤️
stamping twice is kind of a cheat, isn't it? Inks are supposed to stamp with one impression, that's what we pay the big bucks for quality inks for. Stamping a large solid stamp may require two stampings, but nothing else should?
Oh not at all. I stamp nearly everything twice, all the time, with every ink company I have. Maybe it's because I have wrist issues and don't press super hard? But my experience with nearly all of my dye based inks is I stamp twice.