Alcohol Inks on Gelli Plate

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This month our Group of Seven Cardmakers used alcohol ink on a Gelli Plate.

It's messy but so much fun!

I shared two cards using this technique yesterday and I'll be sharing more in the coming days.

Today I'm sharing my favorites.

To do this technique, we squirted some alcohol ink on a Gel Plate (mine was 3" x 5"). 

A needle nose bottle works great to squirt some alcohol or blending solution onto the plate.  

Then I used a puffer to move the ink around.  

When happy with the mix of colors, regular cardstock is pressed onto

the inky plate.  When pulled off it leaves a lovely pattern and I love that the cardstock is

so much easier to stamp on than the glossy cardstock.

I did the technique a little differently on this piece.

I did one color at a time, trying to add it just to 1/3 of the plate.  I used Lettuce and

Sunshine on the bottom and Sailboat at the top.  I have the Tim Holtz puffer

and it works great for moving the ink and alcohol.

I've been wishing for this dragonfly die from The Greetery for ages and finally 

gave in and ordered it.  It was on a card within an hour after it was in my hands.

That's the fastest use of NBUS ever for me!

I pressed the die cut in VersaMark and heat embossed in gold before assembling him

and popping him on a torn piece of vellum.

Then....

This time I used a NBUS silhouette stamp and kept it simple.

This background was my second pull.  The first was quite rich in color so I added 

some more alcohol on the plate and pulled again.

Here are the two pulls side by side.

I hope you'll go to the Group of Seven Cardmakers blog and take a look at what the

rest of the girls have done and maybe try the technique yourself.  There are instructions at

the web site.

Challenges:

NBUS #49 - Never Before Used Schtuff (Dragonfly & Daisy Stap

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Happy Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Alcohol Ink (Lettuce, Sunshine, Sailboat), VersaMark

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Black

Other:  Gelli Plate, Ink Blower, (TH), 91% Alcohol, Jumbo Curiosity Dragonfly Die (Greetery), Gold EP

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Daisies (Nellie Snellen), Sketched Flowers (SSS)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Alcohol Ink (Lettuce, Sunshine, Sailboat)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Black

Other:  Gelli Plate, 91% Alcohol, Ink Blower (TH), Linen/Canvas Impression Plate (PTI)

Enjoy!

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