Thank you for sharing your setup! It looks really useful, and I got some ideas from you. I wish you and your family a healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous New Year 2025! May all of your visions for this upcoming year become a reality.
Thank you Nina, I'm glad you got some ideas from my setup! I wish the same for you in the new year, many blessings and I hope 2025 brings you all the peace, joy, and abundance you want ✨
I love the reworked goal section and might steal that idea for my common planner 😁 I'm also very interested in the washi sticker paper you used on the "Fun Things" page. Where can you get that?
I think you can get it on amazon? I get mine from my business supplier, but you can get smaller quantities from Amazon or even places like AliExpress 😊
Thanks for sharing your set up. I just found your channel and look forward to seeing more content and I love your stickers! I’ve been collecting fountain pens and inks since 2016. The ink feathering question: Maybe the pen nib may have been wet with water when you started writing with your just inked fountain pen... When I swatch inks in my ink journal (a Sterling Ink notebook) I have had feathering of inks in my Sterling Ink notebooks on two separate occasions. The two ink brands that have feathered in my Sterling Ink notebook: IWI inks and Monteverdi inks... For the questions you have about the inks, here is my answer; the De Atramentis ink has a bit of a thicker consistency-viscosity than the Diamine ink. De Atramentis inks are considered thicker than many other fountain pen inks because they are designed to be highly pigmented and waterproof, which requires a higher concentration of pigment particles that naturally increase the ink's viscosity, making it appear thicker and flow slightly slower... and they will show a thicker line when writing... Diamine is not considered waterproof, so they don’t need the extra pigments, and they can be thinner.. So far the blackest fountain pen ink you can purchase is Platinum Chou Kuro Black Ink. Another very black ink is Platinum Carbon Black. Platinum Chou Kuro ink is the blackest black ink but it typically is twice as expensive as the Platinum Carbon Black ink. Many people (planner people) wanting a waterproof ink typically have both De Atrementis and Platinum Carbon Black. When I started with fountain pens and planners, in 2016; I only bought waterproof inks. The colors selections of waterproof inks are small, and many do not have the varied properties of the multi-shading colors that are so popular today. I hope this helps answer your question. I rarely use a black ink in my fountain pens these days... because there are so many more ink colors out there that are beautiful and deserve being used on the Tomoe River Paper... I hope this helps answer your questions... Happy New Year!
Ahh thank you so much for your comment! Yes, I did find De Artamentis a bit too think for what I was looking for, but I appreciate that it is waterproof and will last a long time on the page, so I will be keeping it to use for other things. Important things which don't necessarily need to look nice, or things that can be written bigger lol. I do love me a deep black ink, and Diamine Onyx Black was my first one. I think I just got spoilt by that lol. It's so good in every way except for not being waterproof. I actually got Sailor Kiwaguro and I loved it - but the strong smell game me an instant headache 😫 I just couldn't use it so I very reluctantly returned it and tried Platinum Carbon Black instead. LOVE IT! So that's now the one I am using in my planner, yay! My ONLY complaint on this year's tomoe river paper is that it sort of skips or has false starts. It doesn't happen on other TR paper, but I think this year the coating is a little different. It's a minor inconvenience though so I'm okay with it for now. Yes I love all the beautiful colours of inks you can get, and in my Japanese planner I'm using Diamine Aurora Borealis. I find the coloured inks, especially the lighter ones, tend not to smudge much. It's the black that smudges for me. I'm looking forward to trying new inks this year. Happy New Year to you too! ✨
Thank you for sharing your set-up. You do have some different ideas that I really enjoyed seeing.
Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing your setup! It looks really useful, and I got some ideas from you. I wish you and your family a healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous New Year 2025! May all of your visions for this upcoming year become a reality.
Thank you Nina, I'm glad you got some ideas from my setup! I wish the same for you in the new year, many blessings and I hope 2025 brings you all the peace, joy, and abundance you want ✨
I love the reworked goal section and might steal that idea for my common planner 😁
I'm also very interested in the washi sticker paper you used on the "Fun Things" page. Where can you get that?
I think you can get it on amazon? I get mine from my business supplier, but you can get smaller quantities from Amazon or even places like AliExpress 😊
Thanks for sharing your set up. I just found your channel and look forward to seeing more content and I love your stickers!
I’ve been collecting fountain pens and inks since 2016.
The ink feathering question: Maybe the pen nib may have been wet with water when you started writing with your just inked fountain pen... When I swatch inks in my ink journal (a Sterling Ink notebook) I have had feathering of inks in my Sterling Ink notebooks on two separate occasions. The two ink brands that have feathered in my Sterling Ink notebook: IWI inks and Monteverdi inks...
For the questions you have about the inks, here is my answer; the De Atramentis ink has a bit of a thicker consistency-viscosity than the Diamine ink.
De Atramentis inks are considered thicker than many other fountain pen inks because they are designed to be highly pigmented and waterproof, which requires a higher concentration of pigment particles that naturally increase the ink's viscosity, making it appear thicker and flow slightly slower... and they will show a thicker line when writing... Diamine is not considered waterproof, so they don’t need the extra pigments, and they can be thinner..
So far the blackest fountain pen ink you can purchase is Platinum Chou Kuro Black Ink. Another very black ink is Platinum Carbon Black. Platinum Chou Kuro ink is the blackest black ink but it typically is twice as expensive as the Platinum Carbon Black ink.
Many people (planner people) wanting a waterproof ink typically have both De Atrementis and Platinum Carbon Black. When I started with fountain pens and planners, in 2016; I only bought waterproof inks. The colors selections of waterproof inks are small, and many do not have the varied properties of the multi-shading colors that are so popular today. I hope this helps answer your question.
I rarely use a black ink in my fountain pens these days... because there are so many more ink colors out there that are beautiful and deserve being used on the Tomoe River Paper...
I hope this helps answer your questions... Happy New Year!
Ahh thank you so much for your comment! Yes, I did find De Artamentis a bit too think for what I was looking for, but I appreciate that it is waterproof and will last a long time on the page, so I will be keeping it to use for other things. Important things which don't necessarily need to look nice, or things that can be written bigger lol.
I do love me a deep black ink, and Diamine Onyx Black was my first one. I think I just got spoilt by that lol. It's so good in every way except for not being waterproof. I actually got Sailor Kiwaguro and I loved it - but the strong smell game me an instant headache 😫 I just couldn't use it so I very reluctantly returned it and tried Platinum Carbon Black instead. LOVE IT! So that's now the one I am using in my planner, yay! My ONLY complaint on this year's tomoe river paper is that it sort of skips or has false starts. It doesn't happen on other TR paper, but I think this year the coating is a little different. It's a minor inconvenience though so I'm okay with it for now.
Yes I love all the beautiful colours of inks you can get, and in my Japanese planner I'm using Diamine Aurora Borealis. I find the coloured inks, especially the lighter ones, tend not to smudge much. It's the black that smudges for me. I'm looking forward to trying new inks this year.
Happy New Year to you too! ✨