Alcohol Inks

Every now and then I love to use my alcohol inks on glossy card stock. I used a Hero Arts collage stamp with white and gold embossing. The inks are: Cool Peri, Cranberry and Salmon.

I punched out six white and six gold squares and made a grid card.

Revisiting on Monday - June 2009

Hello! Yesterday I clicked on the wrong link and got a virus which took DH the whole evening to get rid of! But he did it!

Today I'm going back to the first card (see below) I made using alcohol inks and embossing. Due to the fact that the project went wrong, I put my punch into it and loved the result it gave! Ever since, I love experimenting with this technique when I get a new stamp. The above card uses three stamps of Hero Arts, mixed together after punching out the squares.

This is the stamp I used for the above card, which was stamped twice on an alcohol ink background, once with white EP and once with brass EP, and then just mixed together with the 3/4" square punch.
 I also punched out a couple of circles and a butterfly.

Alcohol Inks

These were not the projects I was aiming at. First of all I wanted to create a nice alcohol background on glossy paper, but the applicator was too saturated and mixed the colours to give this dark look. Then I stamped on it in black but didn't like the look of it, so instead I attached a vintage image in the middle of the stamp seeing that it automatically gave me a frame. I thought to myself if I see a challenge this week with the theme 'frames', I will enter these, and sure enough, here on the Arty girlz blog I found a challenge!



Then I stamped over the top with white ink and used the beautiful flourish stamps which Suzanne sent me... slowing becoming my favorites... and liked the distressed look it gave.


This second card was created a little bit in the same way but with some extras.