Here is where we left off yesterday.

I entered all of my stamp ink pads into excel (by their actual names) then I sorted them alphabetically.  Then I numbered them.  What I don’t have a picture to show is the sheets that I made with 3 large rectangles across and 8 rectangles down the page.

Next with gloves on I slowly but surely, took the coffee filter flowers and inked them and then placed them on the page and numbered them according to their name.

I took re-positionable tape and taped it down to the square and then wrote in the corresponding number to the ink pad name.  This way I could get all of the flowers inked and tape down with the right number so they could dry.  For example the blue flower with a #1 in the square was Ballet Blue.

I let them dry overnight and then I cut each square out.  I then took the colors by groups, i.e. pinks, greens, yellows, etc.

Within each group I lined the up from light to dark.

I then went back to the computer and keyed in each name corresponding with the numbers of each group (going from light to dark in each color group) and glued each flower into the appropriate named box.

I started with the blue violet, then moved into the pinks, then reds, then orange, then yellow, then greens and then blues.  I also did the browns and blacks just so I would have an inventory of all the ink pads.   Click on the pictures to get a close up of the names.

Now when I get ready to make my flowers or when I need to match an ink pad to some pattern paper it can easily be done by just going to these inventory sheets and see what I have on hand.  I know it is a lot of work but it’s one of those you do a lot now to save you some time later.  I keep it attached to my bulletin board next to my Copic Marker chart.  Both of them right at my finger tips when I start combining colors for flowers.

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