nft made: using alcohol inks

This post is long overdue, but I kept finding other things to post about first.  You may remember I took a workshop a few weeks ago at Bizzy B Stamp & Scrap on how to use alcohol inks.  Alcohol inks are a great way to create multicoloured paper and acetates to use as backgrounds for cards, scrapbooks and ATCs.  They're easy to use and can produce a variety of effects. Take a look at what I made in a two hour workshop.

These were all done on glossy paper. Alcohol inks are applied with cotton pads that act a bit like sponges and a bit like stamps. You can also blend and lighten the colours with a blending solution.  The more you work on the paper, the more the colours blend.





They dry pretty quickly and then you can stamp on the paper with StazOn ink.



For this one, I created a purple/blue background, then dripped yellow onto it and stamped on the yellow circles that were created.



These are the acetates. You have to coat the acetate with the blending solution and let it dry first so that the inks stay somewhat in place when you drip or stamp it on.





And you can stamp on the acetate once it dries.

There are a lot of colours as well as metallic inks, so the possibilities are pretty much endless!  One thing I quickly discovered in the workshop though is that you can't guarantee that you'll get the results your envisioning because you can't completely control how the inks are going to work together.  The best approach is to work on a bunch of different papers at once, using the colours you like.  You'll be able to make several backgrounds at once and can pick the one you like best. 

I really enjoyed working with alcohol inks and I think I'll to get some of my own at some point.  And it might be sooner than later.  The Leopard and I found out today that our application for an apartment was accepted! :) That means that in August, I'll be able to start setting up my very own permanent creative space.  I can't wait!