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Celebrate Fourth of July with our American friends with a blue ink and a red ink. Bonus points for using American inks!

 

As usual, don't forget to share with us your choice of ink, your writing, drawing, doodling or anything with the ink in this thread. You can take a photo, make a scan, or even better, write letters and CRV reviews (what is a CRV?) and mail them to the many ink pals here. You are welcome to check back on this thread even when we've gone past this week.

Click here to read more about this community project. Links to the two previous links can be found there too.

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Next week: Liberté, égalité, fraternité

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LizB Extremely Rare

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Had fun with these, so I'm afraid there is a tonne of photos.

 

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Easy choice on the red - I love this ink - but a few on the blue shortlist. Ruled out Sailor Sky High because it felt too light and PR Cosmic Cobalt because I didn't want to put in a vintage pen. I mainly have greeny-blues, but they didn't go too well with the cherry red.

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Excellent photos :)

 

 

Agreed. Great lighting.

 

And the writing samples are exquisite.

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lgsoltek Antique

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Well I don't have such gorgeous photography as Liz does!

I'm not quite satisfied with the new Blackstone Kunzea Red (their old Uluru Red either, for that matter). They both look vibrant when fresh on paper, but quickly dry to a flat and muted colour. They both look a bit too brown for my taste.

 

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Lgsoltek's Azure #5 and Kunzea Red are excellent choices.

 

I thought about Private Reserve's American Blue (a great color, indeed), but it is not dark enough for the flag color. So Noodler's Manhattan Blue looks to me to be just right. The flag red is a tough one, and the only ink that I have that doesn't lean orange or pink is Montblanc's Corn Poppy Red.

 

Please pay no attention to the appalling drawing of the US flag. I tried, but it's darn difficult to draw!

 

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Okay, this was last month, I had inked up with Noodler's Purple Heart, but I used the full fill before I got a chance to show it off.

 

http://www.shethinksinink.com/2017_2_Ink/06-June/slides/2017-06-10_Ink_64.jpg

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ian the Jock Vintage

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Oh! Now I do like that, a lot.

Give us the low-down on this gorgeous ink Amberlea, pleeease.

 

Ian

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This one shows Visconti Red's shading, but not the beautiful sheen found with Visconti Blue

 

 

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Agreed. Great lighting.

 

And the writing samples are exquisite.

 

+1 Great. I really enjoyed reading this thread, and was almost tempted myself but I'm not part of the project group.

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amberleadavis Pen Dust

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Chrissy, all you have to do to be part of this group project is share a letter or if nothing else, post an image of one of your letters that relates to the topic. Having seen some of your new Diamine Shimmertastic Reviews, we'd love to see some red / blue combos from you. Also, if you want to send me your address, I'll mail you a letter for a CRV OR you can PM me and I'll send you my address. In short, we'd love to have you join the inky posting group.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh! Now I do like that, a lot.

Give us the low-down on this gorgeous ink Amberlea, pleeease.

 

Ian

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Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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+1 Great. I really enjoyed reading this thread, and was almost tempted myself but I'm not part of the project group.

Oh Chrissy, there's no project group or commitment requirement of any sort! Just chime in any week you'd like and show what you choose as ink of the week!

All my inks, with ink splash and links to my reviews

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Ian the Jock Vintage

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Oh! Now I do like that, a lot.

Give us the low-down on this gorgeous ink Amberlea, pleeease.

 

Ian

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I should have known it was one I can't get.

Even my noodlers sample guy doesn't have it.

Bummer.

Lovely ink though.

 

Ian

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LizEF Museum Piece

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Used the only American inks I have, in really dark blue and pink... The names are kinda funny given the theme (only the ink brand (and one pen) is American). :)

 

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...the messed up "stars" were made by a white uni-ball Signo.

 

The Shah's Rose was in a Jinhao 992 (F nib) and the Starry Night Blue was in my Karas Kustoms Fountain K Mini 1.1 stub. (Had my weeks mixed up, this was actually in last week...)

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Oh! No! I am too late for the 4th of July celebrations! However, dear American friends, I prepared for you a nice French red-blue-combo:

 

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Runnin_Ute Museum Piece

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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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