Jacobean Card - writing

I've gone through and signed the prints of the picture. My first signed piece!
I'll have to come up with a little emblem to say it's me.

I've cut out and ripped the edges (using one of those rough-edged metal rulers) of lots of little squares of Bockingford paper to paste on the back of the cards. These will have the greetings and personal note written on them.

I was going to use Dr Martin's Irridescent Ink - Copperplace Gold (11R) to write "Season's Grettings". I wrote out a test sentence using it and was disappointed by the uneveness of the pigmentation (even after lots of shaking and stirring).

I wet up my Pelikan Gold (Or - presumable "Gold" in German) goauche pan, and the colour was the same dark gold colour, with far far better pigmentation. I'm a convert. I'm actually getting a bit of build up/raised writing on the page.