This is the Diamine Inkvent 2023 day 24 door:

Day 24’s ink is Diamine Sugar Snap. It’s a shimmer ink.

Diamine Sugar Snap is a sap green ink with silver shimmer. One of the few green inks in this year’s Inkvent, it’s an elegant take on a natural hued shading green ink with a bit of pizzaz.

Diamine Sugar Snap shows a good amount of shimmer but something about the combination of the silver shimmer with the mid green ink reminds me of the silver hair found on certain plant leaves (it’s unattractively called pubescence, but the effect itself is both attractive and useful). This is a shimmer ink with class.

This Dean’s Bear (English, of course) is called Truffles, and there’s something about him that makes me think of him as an elder bear. He’s from Mary Shortle‘s of York, and was made on Dean’s Bear’s Centenary. Dean’s Bears is now part of Clemens Bears, which is sad, but at least they’re still manufacturing bears. Truffles has the classic Dean’s Bears look with the elongated snout and the oversized nose.

Here’s the original bear, Truffles:

Diamine Sugar Snap was a surprise to me – I was expecting a brighter green ink with a flashier shimmer effect. The choices Diamine made here elevate this ink and make it more interesting than some of their previous green-inks-with-shimmer inks, and Diamine Sugar Snap also has a name that isn’t really holiday themed. This makes this ink a solid new addition to their regular shimmer ink lineup, unlike inks like Merry and Bright. What do you think? Would you buy a bottle of Diamine Sugar Snap to use not in a holiday setting?