Looking to add a little bit of extra interest to your handmade card or scrapbook page? Try Glaze pens!
These pens write like a typical gel pen, but once the ink is dry, it has a raised effect and resembles stained glass. Cool! Use them to add color and texture to not only cards and scrapbook pages, but also plastic, glass, ceramic, even metal. Just make sure you write slowly so the thick ink can flow nicely onto your project, and allow at least 10 minutes of drying time.
Check out this cute card Molly designed for our Marvelous Minis Card Workshop:
Glaze pens are absolutely perfect for coloring in the lava lamp stamped image. The finished result looks like gel, similar to a real lava lamp. I love it!
Come into Archiver’s to give them a try!
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Ok, I have a set of these and I love how they are SUPPOSED to work, but mine always come out too quick and too strong and make a huge mess. When coloring in stamps, they run over the lines… What am I doing wrong or do I have a bad batch?
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Stacey,
I’m sorry you’re having issues with your pens! It does sound like faulty pens. I’ve had one pen do this to me, but never an entire set. I would bring them back to where you purchased them and see if they can be exchanged for a set that works (you’ll love them once you get working ones!). Happy scrapping!
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Yeah, I bought the sixteen-pack and was disappointed. I had been excited about using them on non-paper stuff, and I love Sakura’s pens in general, but the lines from the glaze pens were way too thick to do what I wanted, which was to write on actual bread tags, which are quite small. I love the idea of using them to look like a running stitch along the edge of a piece of paper, and I would love to have just a black one and a white one for utility, but the multi-color packs weren’t worth it for me. Are the similar Souffle pens any good?
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These pens work great to color in stamps, especially if they’ve been embossed because the ink fills in the open spaces nicely without going outside the lines. The Souffle pens work similarly to the Glaze pens, but they are an Opaque ink so they write great on dark surfaces. The ink doesn’t flow out quite as much with the Opaque pen, but it still isn’t a fine point pen. We have several other options for more detailed projects, but they won’t give you the dimension that the Glaze and Souffle pens will.
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I bought a set last night. Love the way they fill in an embossed area.
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