Good Morning crafters, Julie here, I hope I find you well today?
An ideal time to craft at the moment now the weather has turned a little chillier....no point in trying to garden! Well, it's another alcohol inks card today, which I found great fun
creating. This medium was new to me but I will definitely be creating
more of these in the future. Especially some fairy cards I think......
Right, best get on with the write up....I started with a piece of Yupo paper and applied Honeycomb alcohol ink to the Yupo and spread this over using a
lint on my applicator tool to give me a base colour.
The I started to drop alcohol inks on, firstly using Juniper, then
Teakwood and then some Limeade, this was a little bright so I added some
more Juniper to tone it down.
I then applied Blending Solution to my lint and started dabbing away
until I achieved my desired effect. I think this is so satisfying
watching what you've created change before you eyes.
I then cut a circle out of some super smooth to make a mask for a moon
and put this where I wanted it on my background and used the lint with
blending solution on to remove the ink and create my moon in the
distance.
I left this to dry and selected my Lavinia stamps, these were Badger,
Mini Snail, Mini Flutterby and Ivy border for the base. I stamped these
onto my background using Jet Black Archival ink and when dry cut the
background down to be square. I found some green card from my stash to
mount onto my card blank but decided this looked a little too flat.
I decided to die cut my background using circle dies. Whichever layer I
stuck flat the alternate layers were raised on double sided sticky
pads. This added a more interesting dimension to my card I think.
I matted this onto the card base and added some white pen marks to my
badger's head and some crystal Stickles to the butterfly to complete the
card.
I hope you like my make today, see you next week for another card write up.
Bye for now and happy crafting,
Love, Julie x
Lovely card, the circles were a great idea.
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