Alcohol Inks & Visible Image stamps

Alcohol inks have been hitting social media craft pages everywhere, but this is not a new product.  But with any product that comes back in style, there are always new techniques introduced.

While these may not be new to you, I had a lot of fun playing and experimenting with my inks.

If you would like to see my process video, you can click the link below. I had a lot of fun experimenting with my inks and I hope to give you some ideas. 

I love the colorful background that I was able to achieve using the alcohol inks and regular gloss card stock. I know that many people have used Yupo, but I have not tried that product as of yet. 

I stamped my card using black archival ink and used some black washi tape from Prima Marketing to help ground my image.  I then added some black texture paste.

The stamps I was using were from Visible Image and are clear Photopolymer stamps.  These can be a little tough to stamp on glossy paper, but it could have been simply because the stamps were knew and had  not been conditioned yet. 

After I finished working on my backgrounds, i created three cards. I had a lot of fun playing and just love how the backgrounds turned out.

SUPPLIES

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Backgrounds with alcohol inks

Resist paper is always fun to use, especially with alcohol inks.  Heidi Swapp has some fun inexpensive resist paper that helps you create colorful design backgrounds with little effort.

I created these cards in a few moments using 3 different alcohol ink colors and the new stamp released this month over at So Suzy Stamps called "Win Your Battles."

Visit my You Tube Channel to see how I made this simple colorful card. I have also linked all the products that I have used below. 

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Supplies:

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Flower Flourish and Alcohol Inks

Hey everyone! It's Monica and I am up on the blog today to share with you three cards I made using alcohol inks and the Flower Flourish stamp. 

Flower Flourish

One of the things I love about alcohol inks is you will never get the same background twice. They mix so well and are so easy to use. They created the perfect background for this beautiful stamp!

While the cards are very similar and work great in the set, they are each unique in their own way.

The background technique is so easy. All you need is some alcohol inks and a blending tool. A few drops of color along with the blending solution and just dab away.  

Have fun!

Friendship gives wings to the heart

It is time again for the Design Team challenge over at Cornish Heritage Farms and the theme this week is Friendship,

I was playing with my alcohol inks this weekends, and when I do that, I make several samples as it is a messy process and I want to get the most out of my inks. I love butterflies, and the sentiment I am using is from the friend expressions set and worked perfect with butterflies. 

Don't forget to check the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team's cards on their blogs:

• Amber Hillman
• Frances Byrne
• Steph Ackerman

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Tim Holtz - 12 Tags of 2015

I found some time last night to bring out the alcohol inks and play along with the September 12  Tags of 2015 that Tim Holtz hosts every month.

Now I never have won (boo hoo), but it is fun learning new techniques and also re experimenting with old ones. Alcohol inks are not new to me and I enjoy playing with them. It is a messy play for sure though, so you have to be in the right state of mind.

 On his tag this month he used clear texture paste to create his embossed look. I did not have any so I just used an embossing folder and it seemed to work fine. I knew I would be covering my butterfly stamp with some fussy cut butterflies, so I was not too worried about embossing over my image.
Truth be told, it really did not look that bad anyway.

I have had some wire on hand forever, so I was glad to see another way to adhere my word bands. I love those word bands, I use them often.

So I hope that you like my tag, whenever there are butterflies involved, you know I will be playing along!

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I would like to share my tag with the following challenges:

• Sweet Stampin - emboss it 

• Crafty Friends Challenge  - something beginning with B 
• Brown Sugar – No. 164 - Anything But a Card
• Crafting-With-Friends -  Anything Goes

Family Numbers - A Vintage Journey

Our life is surrounded by numbers isn't it? Well, this was the theme this week over at A Vintage Journey. I decided to work with my favorite number, which is 5. The Number 5 represented the number of family member I had growing up and it is also my favorite number.

These card collages are so fun to make, I jump at the opportunity any time that I get. I happen to have the stamped family image from Stampers Anonymous "The Journey." This is one of Tim Holtz older collections. I just love the way it looks on glossy card stock that has been inked up using alcohol inks.

From there I got out my rub-ons, stamps, stickers ephemera and started layering.  What is great about collage cards is there really is not right or wrong. You just keep layering until you get the exact look that you want. I knew that I wanted my image to be my focal point, so I worked around that to ensure not to cover it.

Since the number 5 was an additional theme, I made sure that I used it several times. You can see it here with a sticker I used from idea-ology Salvage Stickers - Lost and Found collection as well as on the Idea-ology Bingo game piece with the number 55.

I Finished it off with with a word band "Authentic." When I matted it onto my 5"x7" card stock, I had some extra space on the top and bottom, so I added some washi tape that fit the theme. The background paper is from BazzillBasicsPaper called Heritage. It is one of my favorites and was a great find over at Tuesday Morning.

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I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

• A vintage Journey - Favorite Number
• A Girl who Crafts Anything Goes
• Card and Scrap # 91 Anything Goes
• Card Mania # 65 Add some Red
• Come and Get It -  Layer It On
• Stamping Sensations -  FEBRUARY:  Anything Goes
• Simon Says - Monday Anything Goes