Creating with Zig Clean Color Markers + Video

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a friendship card to share with you all. I’ll be creating an alcohol inked background and using the Flourishing Fuchsias stamp set as my main focus. I’ll also be pulling in the Encouraging Greetings stamp set and Scallop Ovals Dies to help complete my card.

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To begin my card today, I started off with my background. I pulled a few colours of Alcohol Inks out and some Yupo paper. I sprayed the background with alcohol solution that I popped into a small spray bottle. Once the background was coated, I took the alcohol inks and drew lines onto the background. Then taking a paint brush and more alcohol solution, I added it around the edges of the lines to soften them. I repeated the same process for all four colours I used. Once I was happy, I dried it off a little with my heat tool, but also dabbing up any excess with a paper towel so the paper didn’t warp too much. I set that off to the side and worked on my images.

For my images, I stamped all the flowers and leaves I thought I would use from Flourishing Fuchsias onto some watercolour paper with Versafine Onyx Black Ink. Then, I clear heat embossed over the top so it would contain my watercolour easier. I used my Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers to colour today. These markers are super handy for when you want a quick colouring job and don’t feel like using a ton of shades of different colours. I used three colours for all my flowers today and they came out looking so gorgeous and with lots of shading, too. I also used a water brush to help spread the colour. I dried off my flowers and leaves with my heat tool and cut them out with the Flourishing Fuchsias coordinating dies.

Zigs Used: No. 25 – Pink, No. 81 – Light Violet, No. 47 – May Green

Now, it was time to finish up my card. I cut down my alcohol inked panel down to the size of my card base, then I used the Scallop Ovals dies and cut out the largest one from white cardstock. I added foam tape at the back and adhered it off to the right hand side of my panel and cut off the excess. I then added foam tape onto the back of my flowers and leaves and adhered them into place as well. I didn’t end up using all I coloured, but I can save those for another card later on. Once my card was looking pretty complete, I white heat embossed the ‘Life Is Better With You’ sentiment from Encouraging Greetings onto a strip of black cardstock. I adhered that down with foam tape as well underneath the frame a little. To finish off my card completely, I adhered my panel onto a white card base and scattered some of the Sparkling Clear Jewels around as well.

Thanks so much for stopping by and watching the video today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired. I can’t wait to share more with you and I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise