Hello crafty friends! Today I am back with my 3rd contribution as a guest designer for the Clever Dexter challenge blog this month. This challenge their theme is "kindness" and I can't think of anything better than to send someone a beautiful bouquet of flowers. For this card I decided to use the Sketched Bouquet digital image from their sponsor AlexSyberiaDesigns.
Hello and welcome back! There are many places I am missing right now,
as I am sure many other people as well, but Paris is definitely one of
them. It is one of my favourite places and we are only 3.5 hours away
by train....so close and yet so far. Today's card features not only one of my favourite places but also my absolute favourite medium to use - alcohol inks!
Welcome back crafty friends and happy Sunday! I hope you're all doing well and having a nice and relaxing (perhaps a bit crafty too) day! Today I am back to share a card made with my absolute favourite medium...alcohol inks! I had some fun last night playing around my inks and this is one of the results of it.
Hello and welcome back crafty friends! We have a cool and rainy Thursday here, so what better day to share a bit of a creepy card and some good news with you all! First with the good news....I am so happy and very proud to share with you all that I am now part of an amazing group of very talented women as the newest member of the Polka Dot Orchard Creative team! I am honoured and very thankful that I was chosen to join this team! So today I am here to share my first official card with them! Let's get started, shall we?!
Hello crafty friends! I am back with my second post for today. I actually meant to post this a few days ago, but of course I forgot to. So better late than never, right? This card was made for hubby's birthday and was perfect for him, as he is a tattoo artist! I've actually had this set for several years now, but have only now used it.
I made several alcohol inked backgrounds yesterday and decided to turn one into a Christmas card. The tones on this one turned out beautiful! Not your typical Christmas colours, but so rich and elegant looking! I am also linking this card to Anything Goes Challenge over at the bastel-traum blog.
I had a bit of a play today with my alcohol inks and alcohol lift ink and just kind of went spur of the moment. Have you ventured into the world of alcohol inks and seen how amazing and magical they can be?
I only used 2 colours for this...black and stream...stream is a gorgeous blue! You can get some beautiful colour variations from just 2 inks...heck, even with just 1 ink you'll be amazed! I also got out some 96% rubbing alcohol, a bit of blender solution and my alcohol lift ink pad. Once I was happy with how the alcohol inks were, I inked up my Hypnotize stamp from Create A Smile stamps. Fun fact....I've never used this stamp before. Not sure why, as it's pretty cool, but it will definitely see the daylight again very soon. I inked up my stamp 2x using the Alcohol Lift Ink from Ranger. This is a special clear ink that like its name suggests, will lift off the alcohol ink from your inked panel and leave the impression of the stamp. This ink is a bit finicky I think and I will need to play around with it a bit more. I stamped it twice, as the first time it didn't lift all that much. I used my Misti stamp positioner for this just in case, so I could get it perfectly stamped both times. 
I wasn't sure what else to add to it, as I didn't want to take away from the background. So I stamped out a simple sentiment from Altenew. I really like the imperfect look of it...goes well with my background. I trimmed down the panel a bit, popped it up using foam tape and added foam adhesive to the sentiment as well. That's it.....super simple but super cool!
This is not my usual style, but I really like the grungy kind of cool look to it! It's kind of like you're looking into a well or even the ripples of water after you throw a coin or some rocks into the water. I'm sure there are many other things you could take from it as well. I do think that alcohol inks are a must have and will be for the most part, my go to for masculine cards.
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