This is the Diamine Inkvent 2023 day 22 door:

Day 22’s ink is Diamine Tinsel. It’s a shimmer ink.

Diamine Tinsel is bright red ink with red shimmer and a lot of shading and it’s gloriously Christmas appropriate.

It took 22 days for Diamine to pull out the red Christmas ink but they knocked it out of the park with this one. It dries darker than it writes on the page, with the base ink being a bright red ink with orange shading. The shimmer renders it darker and richer and really makes it something special. In previous Inkvents Diamine leaned too heavily for my taste on the red inks, but this time they picked them carefully and sparingly. While Bah Humbug goes for the dark red theme, Diamine Tinsel is the full on festive bright red with shimmers on top.

I probably should have sketched today’s bear with blue ink, but Diamine Tinsel it is. The reason I bought him is because of those eyes. I just couldn’t say no to them.

Here’s the original bear (what do you think of his eyes?):

Diamine Tinsel was the festive red ink that this Inkvent calendar needed. Whether you use it to write Christmas cards or letters to Santa, this ink definitely has “Christmas” written all over it.