Autumn Vibes

Hi everyone,

For today’s card I used Alcohol inks and alloys on Yupo paper.

I started with 5 x 7” piece of Yupo alcohol ink cardstock and added a couple of drops of  Isopropyl alcohol to my paper and then added drops of alcohol ink starting with the lightest colour building up to the darkest colour.

 

After each addition of colour, use an ink blower to move the inks around and add

more isopropyl alcohol as needed.

After all colours were blended, I began to add drops of Alloy and move them around 

with an Ink blower adding blending solution to move the colours around.

I dried the piece lightly with a heat tool.

I die cut several leaves from the alcohol inked background.

For the base of my card I used an embossing folder and embossed a piece of white cardstock.

I then added splatters of paint and Distress Spritz and inked the edges of the card with black ink.

Added some of the leaves to the background with foam square's and glued others directly.

I stamped the sentiment and embossed with gold embossing powder.

Well that’s it for my card today and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Ranger Alcohol Ink YUPO White Cardstock 5 x 7”

Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks: Sunshine Yellow, Valencia, Fiesta, Wild Plum, Cranberry, Mushroom

Tim Holtz Alloy - Gilded

Distress Spritz spray: Rusty Hinge

Distress paint: Walnut Stain

Distress ink: Black Soot

Tim Holtz by Tonic: Glass Studio Mat

Sizzix: 

- Foliage embossing folder 665252

- Fall Foliage dies 660955

Stampers Anoymous:

- The Scarecrow (sentiment)

Alcohol ink blending solution

Isopropyl alcohol (99% used)

Alcohol ink Splatter brush

Ink blower

Tiny tag embellishments

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a little project to share using a stamp set, StazOn black ink, shrink plastic and alcohol inks to create tiny tag embellishments.

Below is the stamp set I used to create them.

I stamped each word on to a piece of shrink plastic using the black StazOn ink. 

I then trimmed down each word and used a punch to add a small hole at the top of each tag before heating them. The word will curl up when heating but don’t be alarmed as it will flatten out if you continue to heat just a little bit longer.

When it was cooled I added a tiny bit of alcohol ink to the back side of each shrunken piece being careful not to let it drip onto the front side of the tag. If the alcohol ink drips onto the front of the word it will start to erase the inked word.

Below are the colours of Alcohol inks that I used.

To give you an idea of the finished sizes the word Christmas measures 1.25” and the word 
Hope is 3/4” when shrunken down.

You can see from the first photo the size of each stamp and then the finished sizes.

Well that’s it for my tiny tag embellishments. 

Hope you liked them and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Products used:
Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous Festive Print stamp set CMS472
Ranger Alcohol inks - Red Pepper, Glacier, Fiesta, Mojito, Patina, Sunshine Yellow, Cranberry, Citrus
StazOn Jet Black ink
Hole punch
Heat gun

Happy Day

Hi everyone,

Well it’s another snowy day here so it’s time to play in my craft room.

I had coloured some Idea-ology eggs and rabbits the other day it was time to make something with them. I chose to create a tag.

I started with a Kraft coloured tag glued to a piece of chipboard. I added layers of Distress spray and  some stamped images in black ink.

The rabbit was painted with Walnut Stain Distress paint and the eggs with alcohol inks. The paper grass is from my stash.I also added a google eye to the rabbit.

I added a hinge clip to the top of the tag that was painted with Tarnished Brass Distress paint.

I used Star stencil on the background and also a Woodgrain stencil.

All the sentiments were from the Stampers Anonymous Eccentric stamp set. The round piece was embossed with gold embossing powder. The hand is an Idea-ology piece. 

I stamped some gold stars and some lettering also from the Eccentric stamp set.

I added some Crackle paint to parts of the edges of the tag and also added bits of Tarnished Brass paint to the edges and bottom.

I made a shelf for the bunny and eggs to sit on using a strip of chipboard to which I added a strip using a Decorative Trim die. The shelf was painted with Kitsch Flamingo Distress paint.

The sticker is from the Idea-ology Sentiments Label stickers.

Well that’s it for my tag today and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Stampers Anonymous Eccentric CMS448

Stampers Anonymous Spring Shadows CMS393

Sizzix Decorative Trims die set 665435

Stampers Anonymous Woodgrain stencil, Star stencil 

Idea-ology Sentiment label stickers

Idea-ology rabbit and mini eggs

Distress crackle paint translucent

Distress Villainous Potion ink pad, spray stain and oxide spray

Distress paint Tarnished Brass

BOO!

 Hi everyone,

Today I have an alcohol inked card to share with you. 

I used Purple Twilight and Alloy Foundry alcohol inks to create my background panel.

The purple panel was die cut from a half striped cover die. As this die cuts out the tiny strips I used the die again but this time from black card stock and inlaid the black strip pieces into the purple panel.

I added a black die cut scalloped frame over my inked panel.

The Halloween figures and sentiment were die cut from black card stock and I added accents using a glitter Gelly roll pen.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Sizzix Vault Series 665563 - Halloween 2021 

Sizzix Bold Text Halloween 665995

Alcohol inks - Purple Twilight, Alloy Foundry

MFT Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Scallop Frame

Studio Katia Half Striped Cover die

The Journey is the Destination

Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share that is for the theme of Red, White and Blue on the Simon Says Stamp blog Monday challenge. Details can be found here

I started by applying my stencil to a white piece of card stock. I ink blended 3 different colours of Distress oxide inks over the stencil. The darkest is the new Uncharted Mariner ink which is such a gorgeous colour. When dry I added some translucent crackle paste over some of the pattern.

I blended some red ink to the outer edges of my panel and then stitched over the edges with red thread.

The sentiment was stamped in black ink and Uncharted Mariner Distress oxide ink was blended over the edges.

I coloured 3 Idea-ology mirrored stars with Red Pepper alcohol ink.

The sentiment was added with foam tape and the stars were glued down directly.

Well that’s it for my card today and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Tim Holtz / Stamper’s Anonymous Mosaic stencil

Tim Holtz / Stamper’s Anonymous Tiny Text stamp set

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mirrored Stars

Distress Oxide inks - Uncharted Mariner, Salvaged Patina and Tumbled Glass

Tim Holtz Translucent crackle paste

Alcohol ink - Red Pepper

Free to Fly

Hi everyone,

Well I’ve been busy lately doing some house painting and now that it’s finished I have some time for my card making.

I made this one with alcohol inks and a beautiful butterfly stamp.

I added different colours of alcohol ink to parts of the butterfly and stamped directly on to my card stock

I like that it is not such a crisp image and the lines are a little blurred.

I added Foundry Wax to the edges of my card base and then mounted it to a piece of dark green card stock with distressed edges.

The base card was sprayed with Cracked Pistachio and Black Soot Distress sprays.

I mounted the 2 panels directly to the card and added a sentiment with foam tape. I added a little gold metallic rub on to the sentiment.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Stamper’s Anonymous Perspective stamp set

Idea-ology Label stickers

Alcohol inks - Cobalt, Aquamarine, Limeade, Dandelion, Vineyard

Distress Foundry Wax - Statue

Distress Spray Stain- Cracked Pistachio, Black Soot

Craf-T Products - gold metallic rub-on

Alcohol ink picture

 Hi everyone,

Today is a gorgeous sunny day and I have my flowers planted. I thought it would be a perfect day to share this framed alcohol ink art picture that I created.

I am entering into the current Monday challenge on the Simon Says Stamps blog where the theme is Alcohol

Details can be found Here 

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=27741

And also entering in their current Wednesday challenge where the theme is anything but a card. Details can be found here

 https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-not-a-card-2/

I started by creating my inked background using several different colours of alcohol inks.

The flowers were die cut from a piece of black card stock and adhered directly to my background.

I adhered the alcohol ink panel to the back of a 5” x 7” cardboard photo frame which was trimmed with gold and black on the inside opening.

I added an Idea-ology sentiment and butterfly. I didn’t alter the metal pieces at all as I didn’t want to take anything away from my background.

Well that’s it for my project today. Thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Flower Field die

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Adornments - Butterflies

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Word Plaques

Various alcohol ink colours

5” x 7” Dollar store cardboard frame

Mauve ribbon

Easter basket

 Hi everyone,

I hope everyone that celebrates had a very Happy Easter.

Well today I have my last Easter project for this year to share with you.

At the bottom of this post you will see the metal bucket that I started this project with.

I used the Bunny Games and Carrot Bunny die sets and an Alphabet die set for the sentiment.

The sides of the tin were covered with card stock embossed and inked with Distress inks.

The foiled eggs are alcohol ink eggs and the others are from the Dollar store.

The ribbon was originally white which I sprayed with various colours of Distress spray inks.

Well that’s it for my fun Easter project and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Bunny Games

Tim Holtz Carrot Bunny

Tim Holtz Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper

Tim Holtz Lumber 3-D Texture Fades embossing folder

Distress inks

Distress Sprays

Alcohol inks

Easter Bunny box

Hi everyone,

Today I am sharing this little vignette box that I made for Easter.

I used several different Tim Holtz die sets to create my scene.

I started by using a small box to which I added woodgrain embossing folder pieces cut to fit the outside and inside of the box.

The inside back of the box was lined with a piece of card stock that o had stencilled with several Distress inks. I also added a die cut fence piece to the stencilled background.

I die cut 2 bunnies for the front of the box, 2 eggs and several die cut flowers.

I die cut the word Easter from a piece of card stock on which I had blended some Distress inks. I stacked the letters on to 2 layers of thick white card stock.

In order to have the word stand up I glued it to 2 pieces of wood dowels that were coloured with Walnut Stain Distress ink.

I added a distressed banner to the box, some faux grass on the inside along with some Easter eggs I made using foil and Alcohol inks. 

To finish off I die cut a large carrot to add to the front and 2 strips of ribbon around the box.

Well that’s it for thisEaster project and I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Tim Holtz / Sizzix Bunny Games die set
Tim Holtz / Sizzix Carrot Bunny die set

Tim Holtz / Sizzix Alphanumeric Bold die set

Tim Holtz / Sizzix 3-D Lumber embossing folder

Tim Holtz / Sizzix Diamonds stencil

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Chitchat word sticker

Alcohol inks - Flamingo, Pool, Limeade

Distress inks 

Brads

Ribbon 

Cheery Alcohol ink card

 Hi everyone,

I have a nice cheery card to share today on another cold winter’s day here in Montreal. Thought this would also be perfect for the current ‘Anything Goes’ challenge at a Blog Named Hero. Details can be found here

I was playing around with my Alcohol inks and decided to create a background with 3 colours of Alcohol ink. Not sure what I was going to do with the finished panel so I decided to use the Hero Arts Sun Flare die with black card stock to go over top for some nice contrast.

The Love sentiment was die cut a few times with white card stock and glued together.

The You letters are from the Tiny Alphabet die set from Tim Holtz.

All the elements were glued directly to my card base to complete my card.

Well that’s it for my card today and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Hero Arts Sun Flare window die

Lawn Fawn Scripty Love die

Tim Holtz/Sizzix Alphanumeric Tiny Type Uppercase Letters die set

Alcohol inks - Flamingo, Patina, Limeade

Snowflake greeting

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share using alcohol inks. I guess I was on a bit of a roll with alcohol inks lately.

I created my background using 3 colours of ink.

Once I was happy with the blending I set the piece aside to dry.

I die cut the snowflake using Thermoweb Deco Foil.

The sentiment was stamped with black ink and adhered to my card with foam tape onto a circle die cut piece of turquoise card stock.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Magic Iris Snowflake add on die

Lawn Fawn Magic Holiday Messages stamp set and die

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Circle die

Alcohol inks - Limeade, Glacier and Laguna

Thermoweb Deco Foil - Silver Stars

Here comes Halloween

 Hi everyone,

Today I have 3 Halloween cards to share with you which I used alcohol inks on each of them. 

For my first card I used a ruler with a strip of felt and added drops to the edge and began pouncing the ruler up and down on the long thin edge to create my background.

For my second card I added alcohol inks directly to a piece of Yupo paper and blended them together with the help of my Tim Holtz air tool to move them around.

For my third card I die cut the words Happy Halloween from the background piece which was used from the second card before I had assembled it.  For the negative space that was left on my second card I die cut the Happy Halloween die from silver sparkle paper and glued it directly into the space.

I used various Lawn Fawn stamp and dies and coloured my images with Copics.

I added Glow in the Dark stencil paste to the tops of the trees on Card 1 and the windows and stars on Card 2 and used a starry sky stencil to add glow in the dark to the striped background.

Well that’s it for my fun Halloween cards for today and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Giant Happy Halloween die

Lawn Fawn Spooky Village stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Scootin’ By stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Stitched Tree border die

Lawn Fawn Pick of The Patch stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Costume Party stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Starry Sky stencil

MFT Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Scalloped Frame die

Lawn Fawn paper pad

Alcohol inks - Valencia & Amethyst 

Lawn Fawn Glow in the Dark paste

Sending hugs

Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share using alcohol inks on a gold foiled acetate sheet.

I used gold foil on a piece of acetate with leaves on it. As the foiling didn’t take completely to the black images I decided to scratch off some of the gold foil to give it a distressed look.

I added colour to the acetate by applying some alcohol inks to the back side. For a little extra interest I sprinkled on some red glitter while the ink was still a bit wet. I added the acetate panel to a piece of white card stock and then adhered that to a piece of orange card stock. Instead of adding the whole panel to a white card base I added it to a yellow panel with tiny flowers.

The sentiment was stamped onto black card stock and embossed with white embossing powder.

To finish off my card I added a few tiny orange rhinestone crystals.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Tumbling Leaves Acetate sheet

Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Stamp and die

Alcohol inks - Dandelion, Valencia

Alcohol ink cards

 Hi everyone,

I have 2 cards today using alcohol inks. 

Unfortunately I didn’t take a photo of my completed alcohol ink panel before I die cut it to make 2 cards.

Here is the panel I started with. I used 4 different colours of Alcohol inks to blend my panel.

I used the Simply Diamonds die from Pinkfresh Studio to cut my panel. I was left with the positive criss cross piece you see below and also the negative Diamond pieces shown on the 2nd card.

For the 1st card I used Distress and Distress Oxide inks to blend a panel for my die cut piece. I flicked Silver Gansai Tambi onto the piece. I die cut the Hugs from a piece of Holographic paper and also a white of white vellum. 

I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and embossed with silver embossing powder.

I adhered the cross cross panel directly to my card and added foam tape to the sentiment pieces.

Go my 2nd card I die cut a piece of white card stock with the panel die. I adhered that die cut piece directly to my card base.

I carefully inlaid all the Diamond pieces into place.

I die cut another panel with my die again, this time with a piece of textured off white shiny paper.

I adhered over the other diecut piece. I just wanted to give a little depth to the pieces.

I die cut the You from white a black card stock and adhered them together slightly offset.

The sentiment strip was stamped on black card stock and embossed with white embossing powder.

Well that’s it for my 2 cards.

Thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Pinkfresh Studio Simply Diamonds cover die

Simon Says Stamp You stamp set

Simon Says Stamp Thanks stamp set

Birch Press Design Big Hugs sugar script die

Alcohol inks - Mojito, Cobalt, Laguna, Boysenberry 

Distress Oxide inks - Peacock Feathers, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Salty Ocean