 Hello everybody, welcome to my channel, it's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting. Today I'm coming to share with you my experiment. I'm working on Australian theme journal and I found that I'm missing solid pattern, solid color, blue color for my pages. And I decided I can print it out and use it as a print or I can color it myself. And I'm gonna try how different it will look. So here, two printed sheets with the blue color. It's laser print, so it will be stable. Once I will use tea to dye it to the vintage look. And I do have here same Grammage ATGSM printer paper. And on these I would like to try different ways of coloring with inkpads. I do have here these three inkpads. This I haven't used maybe for five years. It's still inky, but I'm not using it. I'm not sure why I'm not using it, but I'm not using it. This one, it's probably four years old as well. It does have some ink and it's kind of like oily ink, this one. And I do have here Distress Ink from Ranger Faded Jeans and it's like not too much color in there. I will need new one. So I decided to use this one few different ways. So first I'm gonna wipe this as you can see and I'm pressing quite hardly. I'm gonna wipe that color on my paper. And I should write somewhere what I did on these papers, right? Maybe I will remember that. I think I'm gonna write it down somewhere. So Faded Jeans wiped on the paper. I made small note for myself. I think I will remember these two were printed. I'm gonna take another one and I'm gonna try this Versa color exactly same way. I'm gonna just wipe it on. Yeah, it does have some color still. Oh, maybe if I will, you know, press hard, hard enough. So it will make some coloring. Okay, that's Versa color. And I do have here this one. This looks like a little bit oily ink. I'm not sure because here, it's from China. Here is not any kind of label so I can read it. What is it in there? And it does have some ink, but as you can see, it's kind of not too much. It's here and there and when I want to stamp with that, I really have to try a lot to put a kind of nice amount all around. So that's this one. I do have here my very strong tea spa and I do have here empty tray where I will soak the ink pots and I will try a few different ways. So first, I'm gonna grab these colored papers and let them soak the tea and I will see if they will react. This one is that pure palette ink pot and it doesn't seem to be reacting with tea at all. It's kind of waterproof ink pot. See, I didn't know that. And I do have already my oven preheated so I'm gonna be drying my papers with 120 degrees slow drying or the middle slow, middle speed. I'm gonna add on the top because this is not reacting with water. I'm gonna add on the top the other one that the Versa color and we'll see if that will react with water. Yeah, with water and tea. And then I will dry these two papers, all my papers. I will dry in the oven today. So I'm gonna let it soak the tea and I can place my papers to dry in the oven. I have placed the tea also, those printed sheets and I'm gonna now swap them with the papers I do have in my oven. We can have a look, I think they are dry already. Oh look at that, it got ripped off. Interesting. How about that? Yeah, but the colors, eh, come on, let it go. The colors are the way I place them on those sheets so they don't react with water at all. I'm gonna place there now printed sheets. And now the last paper and this is paper where I used Tim Holtz distress ink fatted jeans and this should react with water. So it may well disappear. I'm gonna let it soak a little bit. I'm gonna open my oven and place this sheet on these two printed ones. Oh, look at that. It's kind of melting my print. Not surprising. And here you can see that most of the ink disappeared. And now my testing. I do have here hot water and these are ink pads which didn't react with water. Oh, look at that. Okay, this one. It's reacting with hot water. They do react both. To be honest, I didn't expect that. But probably because it's hot water, it's melting even that oily thingy. So I'm gonna get my spa. I'm gonna be careful here. And I'm gonna put there one sheet of paper and let it soak that color. It's very hot so I have to be careful to not get burn my fingers. I'm sorry. So I think this soak quite a lot. I placed one clear sheet, white sheet to the tea as well. I'm gonna let them dry in the oven. And I dropped a little bit of that blue color on my teedide paper. So it will be interesting and they are overlaying each other. I'm very wondering how that will look like. And here is also result of my drying the distress ink pad. Wiped on clear paper and then teedide. And these are prints. That's kinda like what I expected because it's laser print so it doesn't move, it doesn't change too much. It's just getting darker with that teed. And I just wanna show you what I noticed. There is again the paper ripped apart. That's so strange because it normally doesn't happen that the paper gets ripped like this. But I used that Versa ink and it got ripped before as well. Here on this sheet it got ripped off when I used that Versa ink. Versa ink but that small one, this small one. So it maybe has something inside. So as you can see, it got ripped off in the middle of the paper and over there. And I know I'm pretty sure that I didn't rip it off when I placed the papers on the tray. And here it's how it looks like. Oh, that's so cool. I like that. So I'm gonna place this teedide paper again to the water to this colorful spa and I will see how this will go. Let it dry in the oven. And before I will try, I know this will react with water totally, but before I will try to do coloring with that Distress ink pad, I'm gonna take this color and pour it to my tea and teedide some papers using that mix. So this is how my mixed of tea and color looks like. I'm gonna grab some clear papers and dig them in. Well, it's like more, it's like greener, yeah. It's totally losing the blueish. So I will have green papers. Good. So to make blue papers, but also teedide, I will have to have a look on that paper which is now in the oven, which was teedide first and then put to that blue color. And I do have there nicely teedide with blue color. I hope you can see that it does have blue tones. It doesn't have green tones, which I think this one will have. So if you wanna have blue color teedide paper, I will suggest first teedide, dry it and then place it to some blue spa and dry it again. And now for those who want to see, I wanna see how Tim Holt, nearly drying, but will react with, oh yeah, nice. See, there is not too much color anymore. So I'm gonna let this soak in my water for longer time and it's still kind of hot water. So I'm gonna flip it over and make my fuddled jeans spa. And this is paper which I teedide in that mix. Blue and tea. And it does have kind of like greenery here and there, but not too much. I place there more papers, so I'm letting them soak quite well. They will be sitting there maybe for 5 minutes. Then I will let them dry and I will see. So now small recapitulation. This is when I just wiped Tim Holt's distance ink over the clear paper, then I let it soak tea and then let it dry. This is how it looks now. This one is when I mixed the blue water with the tea and it looks like this. It does have green shade. I'm not sure if my camera is taking that beautiful color. This will be perfect for forest journal, for any kind of nature style journal. This will be amazing. The paper has beautiful teedide color and also that greenery in there. That's perfect. This one is the paper which I teedide first. This is when I make those splatters from that next sheet and it kind of took those colors really beautifully. So you can make it the way that you will teedide the paper, then place the paper on the tray and splat the blue color over it and it will work like magic because look at that color. It's really gorgeous. And this is when I soak it again in that blue color and it does take the blue color really nicely. This one, it's so weird that it's got tear off like this. Look at that. I never saw that before. I'm not sure what is in that ink. That ink makes my papers get torn. So this is just soaking the paper in that blue color. This is where it was overlapping my teedide paper. So it took a little bit of that tea as well. And these sheets where I wiped, this is Versa color. Very strange. Versa color doesn't react with the tea. This is from China, that ink pad which I wiped on clear paper and doesn't react with tea and these are my laser prints. They are all the time this way, they don't soak, they don't vanish or so. So this is my experimenting with the coloring. I'm gonna continue with my mix and do few more of these greenery pages. Maybe I will do some nature style journal. I will see. Thank you so so much for jumping in today. Thank you so much for spending your time with me with this experimenting. I hope you will remember that. This experimenting when you will find some ink pads dry. So do not throw them to the bin before you will really empty them from the colors. Maybe this will be good for your journals. Thank you so much. Have a beautiful day. Take care about yourself and I will see you soon. Bye.