Valentine Theme Week- Day 4

Here are what I used for making alcohol inks background. You only need some colors that you want and Yupo paper. I used Watermelon as a main red color, and some other colors: Mountain Rose(coral), Sunset Orange(orange), Purple Twilight (violet), Sunshine Yellow (yellow), and Hazelnut (brown).

To begin, I opened the ink cap, and just dropped several drops here and there on Yupo. I repeated the process using the same or different colors. Then I wait while the drops spread and fuse each other and finally covered the entire panel. (See the photos in clock-wise direction)

If you want to make some patterns, brushing or sponging using pure alcohol or blending solution will help. I just wanted to let you know dropping inks only will work or you may tilt the panel before inks are dryup, so the fluid can flow on one side and make some patterns. Again, my point is that you don’t have to buy all those supplies they say to enjoy alcohol inks.

Here are three panels I made in just 3 minutes. I used several inks listed above for the two panels, then I used only Watermelon for the last.

For the first one,  I die cut the panel using Love Shaker Die, then used the remaining panel as a front cover.

 

I die cut one more Love Shaker Die from white glitter paper to use as a window frame.
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The shaker was filled with the pretty Iridescent Heart Confetti Mix.

 

For the second one,  I used the heart diecut piece as a window frame for shaker, which was filled with Iridescent Heart Confetti Mix and Rose Gold Heart Confetti Mix.

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The shakers background is also made of white glitter paper which I used in the first card. Then I put colored images I made using Cupid Friends Stamp Set with Coordinating Dies, stamped a sentiment from Love Sentiments Stamp Set. Because I used other colors of alcohol inks like brown or purple, you can see some color gradation on the die cut, and I was very satisfied with this random effect.

In the third one,  I used negative cut pieces from the Love Shaker Die to make a clean and simple card.

To give them more dimension, I used two layers of pieces. I would also recommend to use another diecut frame as a guidance in order to arrange negative pieces in right position.

Sentiment is from Cupid Friends Stamp Set, and I added Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins.

I’ve shown how to make a couple of simple designed cards from just one alcohol ink panel! ​So excited, isn’t it? I’m showing you one more card for your interest.

 

Here, I used another panel made of only  Watermelon ink as the background. To make a heart shaped frame, I cut out the “Love” script from the diecut.  The gold glitter “Love” script was made using the same way. The front panel is from  Knit Picky paper pack. Then I finished off the card by putting Metallic Gold Confetti Mix.

 

Thank you so much for reading this post. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope for some of those who are unfamiliar with alcohol inks like I am, this post will help you and that you give it a try. Have a wonderful day!

Marge