Alcohol Ink Backgrounds

Last week I managed to summon up enough energy to have a play with some alcohol inks, using different types of cardstock and alcohol lift ink and blending solution.

To start with I chose some alcohol inks and popped these onto Yupo cardstock.  Yupo is a synthetic card that is waterproof, it is also shiny and needs to have a Archival Ink to stamp on it.

These were a bit brighter than I expect so have no idea what I am going to do with these but watch this space 😀

Next I used alcohol inks on the Yupo cardstock again, but this time I used the Ranger Lift Off solution to take a print off the card!   Once the inks have been applied to the Yupo card, blended with the blending solution, once dry I applied the Lift Off Solution to the top of the card and brayered this across the card.   I then applied to the normal cardstock to the Yupo card and pressed it down to take a print.

This tends to give a slightly more muted look and you still have the Yupo cardstock that you can use again, by applying more inks and repeating the process.  This is what the original Yupo card looked like after I had taken the print:

The following picture shows a number of prints that were all taken off the same piece of Yupo card, which I reinked a number of times!

In the coming weeks I will have a play with some of these backgrounds and see what I can do with them.  I really enjoyed this process and found that I used inks I have had for years, so it was nice to get some old crafting items out to play with 😇

Anyhow, that is all from me this week and I hope you are all keeping well and safe.

Ginny x

Home Is Where the Heart Is

Life is very surreal at the moment!  I am very lucky right now as I can at least get out of the house twice a day as I have ponies to care for and they take up a couple of hours a day, so at least I can get out for some fresh air.

It is also allowing me plenty of time for my crafting and getting to practice things I am not very good at - and in this case it is using a brayer!

I really enjoyed making another card with Lavinia Stamps - can you tell they are one of my favourites!  

This card used a number of Lavinia Stamps, as follows:

Forest Temple

Wild Hares Set

Tree of Dreams (the branches only)

Whimsical Wisps

Wild Poppies

Home is There the Heart Is

Single miniature Heart

The colour scheme I chose was Colorbox Dandelion and Jade, which I brayered onto cardstock, doing half and half.  I have found that it is best to use a really light touch with the brayer and build the colour up slowly.  I am sure I will improve with time but I was quite pleased with the result this time.

I stamped the temple and wording in Versafine Clair Twilight and then added the rabbits, I also wanted to put something on the top of the temple so added the branches from the tree of dreams stamp.

I then added some highlights using gel pens, silver on the hares and a muted rose colour on parts of the twines on the temple.  I added some quickie glue to the trees and used the blue moonstone glitter, which was quite subtle.

Finally I added the single miniature heart in chianti, which I love to add to the sentiment.

I know I would love to live somewhere like this 😉

Thanks so much for dropping by.

Stay safe everyone.

Sending love and crafty hugs.

Ginny x