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I have really just started using it, besides white and vanilla, and I wondered if you heat set yours. It's a pain, but I was hoping it might make it come off less on your hands and smudge less.
It depends. Craft inks are great for making DTP backgrounds and I let those air dry, sometimes a couple of days in this humid weather. I don't like to dry heat or emboss a whole page or even a quarter page because embossing -- at least the way I do it -- always curls the paper and I can rarely get it to look right afterwords. However, for small pieces of paper, heating with the gun will speed up the drying process a LOT.
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It depends. Craft inks are great for making DTP backgrounds and I let those air dry, sometimes a couple of days in this humid weather. I don't like to dry heat or emboss a whole page or even a quarter page because embossing -- at least the way I do it -- always curls the paper and I can rarely get it to look right afterwords. However, for small pieces of paper, heating with the gun will speed up the drying process a LOT.
I had this problem too and I do usually use dye ink - but I found if my page starts to curl - I'll turn it over and BRIEFLY blas with the heat gun and it will uncurl itself.
It also helps to use a clipboard (not plastic, obviously) to emboss. Just clip your project in and heat away. This works especially well on little pieces.
Heating both sides helps with the curling thing.
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