Alcohol ink christmas cards ideas

I’m participating in a Christmas in July hop today! (Actually I’m late sharing this blog, so if you follow me on YouTube you may have seen this already!) If you’re looking to get …

This week I want to share with you one of my favorite easy alcohol ink Christmas card designs. I love using alcohol inks and Yupo as these mediums work so well together. I find the process of using alcohol inks to be very relaxing. It is an opportunity to create is a less structured manner

Just Us Girls are doing a trend challenge this week: I must say I love playing with alcohol inks. I love the wonderful textures and blends I get with them. They make such a wonderful background for a simple die cut and sentiment. I die cut the trees and then tore a snowy edge out of white cs so that I'd have a place to stamp my sentiment. I often make a few winter / Christmas themed cards that say "thinking of you" as, at my age, there are always friends going through a first Christmas after…

I’ve had the alcohol inks out recently and spent some time trying to get soft wavy patterns on craft plastic. I have seen several artists who do this technique beautifully but I am very much …

Hi everyone. Sharing more cards from a recent play day with Susan and Christine. I had watched this video on YouTube and was so impressed with the technique that I wanted to give it a try. This is just a simplified version from the video as I didn't heat emboss on the acetate or add glitter. I started by cutting a 12"x12" piece of acetate into four each pieces of 6"x6". It's much easier to handle the smaller pieces when doing a technique. I buy large sheets of acetate from Amazon.com to cut…

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Welcome to "Challenge me a Christmas Card" for 2018! My guest today is Susan Opel, and she has challenged me to make a card with ornaments on it. You can check out her take on this challenge HERE. Here's what I came up with: I made a yupo background with alcohol inks and blue foil, cut it with a stitched square die from Lil' Inkers, then added white die cut Swirl ornaments from Memory Box and a sentiment from Hero Arts. Thanks for visiting :)

You can absolutely make your own HOMEMADE ALCOHOL INK to SAVE MONEY and to make your own CUSTOM COLORS. These markers are dye-based which will give you high pigment loads in your homemade alcohol inks, and are the BEST. You can also use ethically-sourced micas or acrylic paint, as long as you make sure to ONLY PU...

Hello friends! I’m back with one more Christmas card. This one is similar to the last card posted but this time I’m using a watercolor background created with Altenew Watercolors. I’m, also, featur…