Alcohol Ink Happy card with video tutorial

Hi everyone,

It's Monday and that means a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week it's all about "Focus on Alcohol Inks".

Although I do have quite a few Alchohol Inks, I rarely use them because I find them difficult to use, even after watching the Tim Holtz demos. This is also my second attempt, since the first one failed... Of course... I started on Yupo with alcohol, then I added Alcohol Inks Sephia, Aquamarine, Pool and Mineral. I don't like the thick dark edges that pool around the alcohol inks, the thinner ones where you can still see the color of the ink I really do like. But I struggle to get those. In the end I have almost no edges at all, almost everything is blended really softly together.

 

With Alcohol Lift Ink I did some more stamping in the background. In the past I had some problems with this technique, but it is getting better now that I know that I have to wait a little bit after I stamp before dabbing the alcohol ink off with a tissue.

Distress Crayons work very nice on Yupo, they blend beautifully. I gave the gears a metallic shimmer with Metallique waxes, White Gold, Bronze Age and Firebird. I noticed that the waxes also work very nicely on Yupo, so applied some wax in several places to add some shimmer.

 

VIDEO:

SUPPLIES:

Tim Holtz 8x10 WHITE ALCOHOL INK YUPO PAPER	Tim Holtz Ranger ALCOHOL BLENDING SOLUTION	Tim Holtz Alcohol Lift Ink pad	Tim-Holtz-Alcohol-Ink-SEPIA-Ranger	Ranger Alcohol ink Pool	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink AQUAMARINE Ranger tal59394
Mushroom - Alcohol Ink	Tim Holtz Alcohol Pearls Ink MINERAL Ranger	Dylusions Ink Sprays - Black Marble	Prima Marketing BRONZE AGE Art Alchemy Metallique Wax	Prima-Marketing-FIREBIRD-Art-Alchemy-Metallique-Wax	Tim Holtz Stampers anonymous Dapper set
Archival Ink - Jet Black	Prima Marketing FINNABAIR 6 Clear Stamp 967000	Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 3

To join in all you need to do is make a project that fits this weeks challenge and you can be the winner of the $25 gift voucher that our amazing sponsor Simon Says Stamp offers. This prize will go to a random entry. So go over to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog, let the DT members inspire you and join in the fun!

You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you for stopping by! Love to see you next time!

Hugs,
Sandra

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Celebrate card with video tutorial

Hi everyone,

It's Monday and that means a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge! This week it's all about "Food/Drinks". 

For this challenge I first looked up all the inks and other media with food or drink in the name and then chose a color palette. Most of it was Distress Inks, so that was my main medium. And started with that too. Along with Infusions Olive Tree. This immediately gives a completely different effect than working with Distress Inks alone. After I had built up enough layers with the Distress Inks, I darkened the edges, this time only with Ink and not Distress Crayons.

 

To add some more coffee stains, I used the Splatters stencil with Distress Ink Ground Espresso (how appropriate) and used Distress Embossing Glaze Walnut Stain to make it look like it was still wet.

 

VIDEO:

SUPPLIES:

Tim Holtz Layering Stencil SPLATTERS	Paper Artsy OLIVE TREE Infusions Colored Stain CS16	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad GROUND ESPRESSO Ranger TIM43270	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ground Espresso	Tim-Holtz-Distress-Embossing-Glaze-WALNUT-STAIN	Walnut Stain - Distress Ink
Crushed Olive - Distress ink	Tim-Holtz-Distress-Ink-Pad-COLOR-Speckled-Egg-Ranger	Iced Spruce - Distress Ink	Ranger Distress Mixed Media Heavystock	Tim Holtz Sizzix ALPHANUMERIC CLASSIC UPPER Thinlits Dies 664223	Film Strip Ribbon - Idea-ology
Zig Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Marker	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Paper Stash METALLIC 3 KRAFT STOCK th94021	Sakura-CLASSIC-WHITE-Gelly-Roll

To join in all you need to do is make a project that fits this weeks challenge and you can be the winner of the $25 gift voucher that our amazing sponsor Simon Says Stamp offers. This prize will go to a random entry. So go over to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog, let the DT members inspire you and join in the fun!

You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram

If you use instagram add #sssmchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too!



Thank you for stopping by! Love to see you next time!

Hugs,
Sandra

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