Help!! White journaling on color???

Feb '08 Kaye222

Hi
I have been admiring so many people's layouts that have white journaling on colored cardstock. I tried to type on the computer and print it out on black paper....but it doesnt work??
HELP!!! What am I doing wrong???
Thanks
Feb '08 Celstin0406

RE: Kaye222: Hi I have been admiring so many people's layouts that have white journaling on colored cardstock. I tried to type on the computer and print it out on black paper....but it doesnt work?? HELP!!! What am I doing wrong??? Thanks

Someone asked earlier about this, but you can't actually print in white, since printer cartridges only have colours, not white ink.

I think the best way to do it is to create a text box in Word, type in your journaling and then make the BACKGROUND black and the typing white. When your printer prints it, it will print the black part and leave the typing blank, which would be white on a white piece of paper.
Feb '08 Kaye222

RE: Celstin0406: Someone asked earlier about this, but you can't actually print in white, since printer cartridges only have colours, not white ink. I think the best way to do it is to create a text box in Word, type in your journaling and then make the BACKGROUND black and the typing white. When your printer prints it, it will print the black part and leave the typing blank, which would be white on a white pi...

thanks, i will try it.
Feb '08 Peenut_23

RE: Kaye222: thanks, i will try it.

Or you can get a white pen (i.e. signo)
Feb '08 Papersilly

RE: Peenut_23: Or you can get a white pen (i.e. signo)

I was the one who asked this a couple weeks ago. The only answer I found was a white pen works well if you have a lot of journaling.

The microsoft way works, but not for what I was looking for.

"they" do make white ink, but it's very very very expensive.
Feb '08 Scrap4brains

RE: Papersilly: I was the one who asked this a couple weeks ago. The only answer I found was a white pen works well if you have a lot of journaling. The microsoft way works, but not for what I was looking for. "they" do make white ink, but it's very very very expensive.

I have printed light grey on a transparency and it looks white on a dark background.
Mar '08 Scraprabbit

RE: Scrap4brains: I have printed light grey on a transparency and it looks white on a dark background.
scrap4brains Said:
I have printed light grey on a transparency and it looks white on a dark background.

Very clever! I never would have thought to try that. I usually just write with the white pen.
Mar '08 DeAnna...

RE: Scraprabbit: scrap4brains Said: I have printed light grey on a transparency and it looks white on a dark background. Very clever! I never would have thought to try that. I usually just write with the white pen.

I use Sakura Gelly Roll pens. They are a glaze embossing pen and work great once you figure out that they go on clear and dry white LOL. and they are only about $3 for a 2pack.
Mar '08 Kaye222

RE: DeAnna...: I use Sakura Gelly Roll pens. They are a glaze embossing pen and work great once you figure out that they go on clear and dry white LOL. and they are only about $3 for a 2pack.

Thanks so much for everyones help....I found what works and Im pleased at the results.
Mar '08 Riorabbit

RE: Kaye222: Thanks so much for everyones help....I found what works and Im pleased at the results.

so what did you choose?
Mar '08 Mindyradio

RE: Celstin0406: Someone asked earlier about this, but you can't actually print in white, since printer cartridges only have colours, not white ink. I think the best way to do it is to create a text box in Word, type in your journaling and then make the BACKGROUND black and the typing white. When your printer prints it, it will print the black part and leave the typing blank, which would be white on a white pi...
celstin0406 Said:
Someone asked earlier about this, but you can't actually print in white, since printer cartridges only have colours, not white ink.

I think the best way to do it is to create a text box in Word, type in your journaling and then make the BACKGROUND black and the typing white. When your printer prints it, it will print the black part and leave the typing blank, which would be white on a white piece of paper.

Oh, that's how they do that. Seems so obvious now that I read it in b&w. But for the life of me I couldn't figure that out a few weeks ago. LOL I just used my signo pen. Although I HATE my hand writing.
Mar '08 Kaye222

RE: Riorabbit: so what did you choose?

I really like the text box! I know I should use my own handwriting but it is really not very good and I do write very large which wont work to well since usually I have so much to say.
Mar '08 Formossissima

RE: Kaye222: I really like the text box! I know I should use my own handwriting but it is really not very good and I do write very large which wont work to well since usually I have so much to say.

Since my white pen is pretty opaque when it dries, I usually write what I want to journal in pencil first. I can see it in the right light, erase if I'm not happy, change it however I'd like, then write over it in white pen. Because they're clear when you write, otherwise I can't keep my lines straight.

There's a picture in my gallery of a LO I did this way with silver ink on black; I'm really happy with how it turned out.
Mar '08 Bxr-Linda

RE: Formossissima: Since my white pen is pretty opaque when it dries, I usually write what I want to journal in pencil first. I can see it in the right light, erase if I'm not happy, change it however I'd like, then write over it in white pen. Because they're clear when you write, otherwise I can't keep my lines straight. There's a picture in my gallery of a LO I did this way with silver ink on black; I'm reall...

I recently made some little tags (to match some MM ones I bought) that are black with white printing.

I used the text box technique talked about, filling the box with black and changing the font color to white and printing on white cardstock.

The one thing I found is when I cut out the tags, the edges were a bit white. I inked the edges black, and they look just like the store-bought tags!
Mar '08 Kaye222

RE: Bxr-Linda: I recently made some little tags (to match some MM ones I bought) that are black with white printing. I used the text box technique talked about, filling the box with black and changing the font color to white and printing on white cardstock. The one thing I found is when I cut out the tags, the edges were a bit white. I inked the edges black, and they look just like the store-bought tags...

Thanks