More alcohol inks - Alcohol Lift-Ink technique into a card

Making this card with alcohol ink backgrounds (from prior video) alcohol lift-ink, stencil, distress ink.

Here's the video showing the use of the alcohol ink palettes for stamping the Alcohol Lift-Ink.

To distress more or not to distress more

Tags with Distress Crayon all over, then stamp with Ranger Archival Ink or add collage paper.  I removed some ink with damp towel and stencil. Sprayed with walnut stain spray.

I got bored and then put crackle medium on the tags and let dry, then used Walnut Stain Crayon and Metallic Crayon over and buffed. The red/green tag has some transparent texture paste over stencil too, prior to the crackle medium.  Not sure which ones I like better, but these are more distressed.

Random card techniques

I used Distress Sprays and Distress Oxide Sprays on watercolor.  Just spray all over (I used cheap watercolor paper) and then spritzed with water droplets (used Distress Sprayer but you could use a dropper, etc).  Stamped Stampers Anonymous Stamps with Ranger Archival Ink.  I'll add a sentiment later.

Distress Spray background w Distress Oxide droplets of spray in Walnut Stain.  Dab walnut stain distress ink on cutouts w sponge to get to blend in. Stamp bugs in Ranger Archival Ink.  Distress Archival does not bleed, it it just called "Distress" as the colors match the Distress line.

More distress oxide spray on watercolor. Stamp in Ranger Archival Ink, use Distress Pens with water brush to color in butterfly.  Technique is scribble pen on glass palette, pick up ink with water brush.  Stampers Anonymous stamps.

Was testing ink types with Copies.  Marvy Black was ok.  Versafine is NOT ok.  Memento Luxe is NOT ok.  The best thing was copy machine the black stamped image and print with your laser printer. Did not bleed.  These were stamped in black then printed on laser printer/copy machine.  Colored in with Copics.  (His eyes to too dark on the left one).  Daubered distress ink and oxides on background, spritzed with water (Distress Sprayer for large water dots).  I'm going to stamp a sentiment or glue on on, depending on who it goes to.

Using Ranger Alcohol Inks for backgrounds and cards.

Using Alcohol Ink backgrounds to make cards, use Alcohol Lift-Ink to stamp.

https://youtu.be/PInlBpyJYbI 

https://youtu.be/RBT6Mxi-kBM

It's a new crafting era...

Well, I haven't been back in a long time.  Work gets in the way.  The shoe game has been exponentially upped, but that's not why we're back.  The shoes shall be saved for another day.... like when I leave the house again.

My new "thing" is back to crafts (because what good are fancy shoes if you don't leave the house).  What a great stress relief in an otherwise busy world.  

painting with distress markers over archival

bookmarks - distress sprays, inks, stencils, embossing glaze

distress oxide background, distress glaze, archival 

Distress Oxide sprays, Fred Mullett stamp

trying Holtz Distress Resist Spray

Gelli Plate with stencil

Distress inks, oxides with Holtz Idea-ology Collage Paper

Distress inks - painting with the distress pens or minis

Home on a Saturday for once?

Getting ahead on my thank you cards.  You know, for all my gifts?  Silver cards from Impress in Seattle.  Purple/silver background made with Ranger Alcohol Inks put on with applicator on glossy.
Snowman made with Cricut Winter Wonderland.  Snow is just some flakes I picked up somewhere, just some glittery swag.  Awesome.

Perfected card.

Let's pretend I sent you a Christmas Card... it would look like this. Too bad if I didn't. So, tried a few things. Used watercolor paper as background.
BACKGROUNDS:
1) Tried Ranger Adirondack sprays, diluted. Used some Tsukineko Potion #9 as well to spread around color. I think the Ranger inks are discontinued, but they are water based. So, you could make your own spray with water based refills. Then spritzed Tsukineko shimmer spray as well on paper.
2) Tried to paint blueish background with Twinkling H2O's. Made paper warpy. Hard to glue down.
3) Tried some darker backgrounds than this as well. Looked pretty cool, but then bird and leaves didn't stand out.
GLUE:
Gluing on watercolor paper is tougher than it looks.
1) Tombow glue in dispenser. Didn't stick well after a week it came up.
2) Glue stick. Worked ok, but comes out hard.
3) I have not perfected this. On the edges that came up, needed to use Stampin up glue pen to glue edges back down.
BIRD:
1) Twinkling H2O's. Had to get pretty thick on brush. Had some screwups with too much water on brush, bleeding. Make sure paper is really dry.
LEAVES AND HOLLY BERRIES:
1) Twinkling H2O's. Thick. Looked really nice.
2) Then I got smart/lazy. Used Copic Atyou Spica glitter pens. Looked pretty much the same, but didn't bleed.
STAMP:
Got at Impress in U Village Seattle. Also totally plagarized card from there, but it was easy and fun.
That's all for now. I need to wrap gifts, and get inspiration for thank you cards.

October.

Watercolor paper, spray ink, Spooky stamp. (Spooky Collage by Memory Box).