Alcohol Ink/Shaker Magic

Welcome back!  I've got some more pink and snowflakes for you today!  I just love pink for Christmas/Winter cards!  I've been playing with some alcohol inks and had some fun with a few different techniques for this one.

I wanted a lighter alcohol inked background so I combined some Ranger Pearl Alcohol Ink along with some Copic Refill in a light pink.  I applied them and moved them around with Blending Solution.

Did you know you can add a little sparkle to your alcohol inked panels with foil?  The trick is to get it while it's not too wet, but still a little sticky... I keep all of my foil scraps for just such occasions.  Just press the foil over your piece and it stays on the sticky parts.

Then I used alcohol life ink along with the snowflakes from the Snowy Sayings stamp set.  You just stamp on your alcohol inked panel with the alcohol lift and then buff it with a paper towel to make the flakes appear...

Love the light images along with the light inky background.  I finished it off by splattering some acrylic paint over the top.

I cut the Flakey A2 Panel Die from white glitter paper, added a piece of acetate to the back of it and popped it up over some sequins on the alcohol ink panel and added a sentiment from the Snowy Sayings set.

Thanks so much for stopping!  Hope you'll come again soon for more inspiration!

Hugs and Happy Thoughts!

Welcome back!  I've been playing with alcohol inks and alcohol lift ink again!  In case you missed it, I used the same technique for this post here!  This time I added a little shine here and there with some foil like I did in this post here!

I used the Full On Floral again with some lift ink and I thought this background was perfect for these beautiful Everyday Dragonflies!

I stamped the dragonflies with Catherine Pooler Mardi Gras and All That Jazz inks and then colored them in with some glittery gel pens.

To me it feels like the dragonflies are flying over water... I love it!  That's me for today!  And in case you see anything you must have, I have this for you:

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Full On Floral With An Alcohol Lift

Welcome back!  I'm playing with some Alcohol Ink and Alcohol-Lift Ink!

I started with some EVO paper and splattered on Ranger Alcohol Inks in Raspberry, Eggplant and Aqua and then some Blending Solution.  I moved the inks around using the Hand Blower and added a little ink here and a little blender there until I was happy with the look.  I let it dry while cutting the other elements such as the heart window panel and flowers from the Four Petals dies.

When the panel was dry, I placed it in the Misti and used a freshly inked Alcohol Lift-Ink pad to link it up and stamp the Full On Floral stamp onto it.  I did leave the image down on the inked panel for about half a minute.  I inked the stamp up again and restamped one more time before I was finished.

When you first lift up the stamp you can very lightly see the image on the panel.  I took a paper towel and buffed the image lightly.

As you buff and the ink is moved away, the image starts to appear leaving a ghost of your image in the ink.

I cut the panel down to fit in the heart window I had cut previously.  The heart was adhered to the base so that it would fit in the window and the window panel was popped up over it.  The Breathe word die from the Just Breathe Dies was cut three times... once from some of the leftover inked panel and two more from some purple cardstock... and then stacked together.  It was adhered to the edge of the heart window.

I added the flowers made by layering the two sizes of Four Petals die cuts and added a gem to the center.  Finally I stamped a little "hang in there" sentiment from Somebunny onto the bottom corner (should have done that while it was flat, but it was a last minute decision to stamp it directly onto the panel and using the Misti it was easy peasy!

And that's me for today!  I hadn't played with the Alcohol Lift in a while, but this month I'm using lots of alcohol inks in my projects and thought it was time to pull it out.

Thanks for stopping and hope you'll come again soon for more CAS-ual Fridays Stamps inspiration!