Cambria County Christian School Crop

Cropsy Turvy will be at Cambria County Christian School Friday, September 30 and Saturday October 1 for their fundraising crop. Stop by to check out our new mini book and layout kits, papers by Simple Stories and a great make and take featuring the new Fall 2011 Distress Inks from Tim Holtz and Ranger. Hope to see you there!!

Cambria County Christian School
561 Pike Road
Johnstown, PA 15909-4209

(814) 749-7406

I don’t have an ‘INKling’ how to use these!

Ever find yourself standing in front of an ink pad display wondering why there are so many inks to choose from? What’s the difference between pigment and dye? Do I need different types of ink, or will one good one do the job? Can I heat emboss with any type of ink?

We’re here to answer all your ink questions.

Chalk Inks

Chalk inks are long lasting and fade resistant inks. They blend well and provide more of a matte finish. They dry rather quickly and are made permanent by heat setting. Clearsnap® makes a chalk ink in their ColorBox® line.

Dye Inks

Typical dye inks are waterproof, acid free and transparent. They dry very quickly and blend and dissolve well. Dye inks work well for general stamping and can be used on glossy or matte papers.

Cropsy Turvy carries several unique dye inks:

Tim Holtz® Distress Inks are a collection of 36 acid-free, non-toxic, fade resistant, water-based dye inks. They’re perfect for achieving vintage, stained, aged effects. Tim selected the colors and helped develop these inks to produce a realistic, weathered look on paper, photos and decorative fibers. Re-inkers are available in .5 oz. bottles with eye drop applicators. Distress inks are different from other dye inks in that they are water reactive and can be used to heat emboss, as they stay wet longer than typical dye inks.

Tim Holtz® Adirondack® Alcohol Inks are acid-free, fast drying transparent dye inks specially formulated to create a colorful, polished stone effect. Use on glossy paper, dominoes, metal, shrink plastic, glass, and other slick, non-porous surfaces. They are available in sixteen exciting 3-color palettes or 48 individual bottles and can be applied with an ink applicator, a fillable pen, or straight from the bottle. Alcohol Blending Solution is available for lightening colors and cleaning inks from non-porous surfaces.

Adirondack® Dye Ink Pads are rich, realistic earth tones, pastel lights and vibrant brights that coordination with the Adirondack product line. These inks are acid free and fade resistant, great for stamping and come in a 1 oz. reinker.

Pigment Inks

Pigment inks are thick, opaque and slow drying. They are acid free and more vivid than dye inks. They are also easier to clean. Pigment inks are fade-resistant and are great for heat embossing and air-dry on matte papers. Cropsy Turvy carries Adirondack ® Pigment Inks by Ranger Industries. They are available in 24 colors which consist of 6 brights, 6 lights, 12 earth tones and Pitch Black and Snow Cap. They coordinate with the entire Adirondack® product line and have half ounce reinkers.

Solvent Inks

Solvent Inks are fast drying and work well with nonporous or semiporus materials such as acrylic, metal glass and more. Cropsy Turvy carries Archival Inks™ which provide lasting stamping results that are permanent on many surfaces. These are perfect for achieving a crisp image that doesn't bleed over water-based inks and markers, acrylic paint, water colors, Adirondack® Alcohol Ink or Perfect Pearls™ pigment powders. They are available in 24 vibrant shades in a standard size stamp pad. These inks work very well when you are coloring in a stamped image with markers, paints or watercolors and come in .5 oz reinkers.

Watermark

Watermark inks are acid-free, slow-drying, slightly tacky, colorless inks that are perfect for heat-embossing. They can be used alone for a watermark tone-on-tone look or with tinted embossing powder. You can heat set them to speed up drying time. Cropsy Turvy carries Inkssentials™ Watermark Resist Ink in a versatile multi-purpose stamp pad, which can be used to create the look of a watermark on colored papers and as a crisp, bright resist for water-based dye inks on glossy papers. It contains an all-natural resin, pure and unbleached with a slight tint, which will not affect your artwork.

I hope this has cleared up some of the confusion the vast array of inking products may have caused you. If you would like to play with any of these products and experience their unique properties first hand, contact Cropsy Turvy at info@cropsyturvy.com to schedule a workshop.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping! ~Patrice

Summer mini album kit

Hey everybody!

We are getting geared up for our first big event, the Scrap the Day Away crop, at St. Andrews this weekend! We will have wonderful door prizes made up by the super generous, Patrice (seriously, I want to win these door prizes for myself!). We will be doing two make n takes, a really cute page layout, and a technique filled tag (featuring the super awesome new inks just put out by Ranger this week).

We will be selling album kits, page kits, embellishment bags, and the amazing portable photo scanner by FlipPal. We can't wait to see you all there and hope that you are all as excited about our products as we are about bringing them to you!

I made a quick video (well quick for me since I tend to be rather long winded) showing one of the kits we will be selling. This is a summer mini album created with papers from Simple Stories '100 Days of Summer' line. I can't believe how much I have fallen in love with these papers! The kit will contain everything that you need to make the album exactly the way that I did, or to put your own twist on things! So hope you like this quick preview of what we will have to offer. More is on the way!

Thanks everybody!

New Tim Holtz Distress Ink Colors

Oh swoon!  My favorite artistic genius,Tim Holtz, has just released the news that three new colors will be available for a limited time only:  Seedless Preserves, Gathered Twigs, and Ripe Persimmon.

They will be very limited, each store is permitted to order only 12 sets of the colors.  The colors are packaged together with a manufacturer's suggested retail of $17.99.  Each distress pad will include a QR code for smart phone users that will link to a video of our hero, Tim, personally showcasing and demonstrating the new harvest hues. (Is it pathetic that I would buy the inks just for the videos?)

So, if you are interested in seeing a demo of these inks used in person, or would like more information about these great new hues, please email us at info@cropsyturvy.com.

For those local to the Johnstown, PA area, we will be at St. Andrews Weekend Crop Event on the 23rd and 24th of September, so stop by and see the inks in action!

We've been super busy getting together great products and kits to sell at the crop, as well as some awesome Make n Takes that we hope you'll love as much as we do!  Once things have settled down a bit, we'll have some more great videos of projects to post on the blog, so please keep checking back!

Thanks everybody!