Alcohol Ink with Gilding Flakes for GO7

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This month the Group of Seven Cardmakers had a messy play with alcohol inks and

Gilding Flakes.

I did four cards from two pieces of gilded alcohol ink.

First up....

For the blue piece, I used lots of alcohol with the ink on Yupo paper and my 

Tim Holtz Ink Blower to move the colors in fun patterns. I let it dry completely and

tried to add gilding flakes to the sticky areas.  

I couldn't get it to stick, so I used the skinny tip

of my Bearly Arts glue and added thin beads of glue to some areas then covered the glue with the

gilding flakes and let it sit for a while before rubbing the excess flakes off. 

I die cut some 

feathers from it.  You can't see it in the photo, but there are dry embossed 

feathers in the background.

 With the rest of the piece, I CASEd myself...  

I hadn't used this fun die in a long time and it works so well with

alcohol inked backgrounds.

Then I did a piece of green and made two more cards.

My first Christmas card of the New Year...

Again I used lots of alcohol with the ink on Yupo paper and my Tim Holtz Ink Blower to move

the color around.  Before the piece was completely dry, I covered it with gilding flakes

and pressed into the ink.  I left it to dry a bit then I used a scrubby to rub off the excess.

There was still some sticky places after it dried and I couldn't get the flakes to stick

so I sprinkled baby powder over the top and rubbed off with a dry baby wipe.

This worked great to get the sticky off.

For my final card, I used the rest of the green piece...

and added an Irish Blessing and hot foiled butterfly to it.

The butterfly was hot foiled on acetate and put on top of a die cut

of plain white.  The antenna is from gold cardstock.

Do go over to the Group of Seven website and check out the instructive videos and 

the beautiful examples the rest of the GO7 gals have done.  They have good tips and tricks

for this technique on their blogs.  If you try it yourself, you can link up your results

over there too.  The biggest tip I have is to wait until AFTER you do this to vacuum!

Challenges:

Group of Seven Cardmakers - Alcohol Ink with Gilding Flakes

Double D Challenge - Sparkle and/or Shine

Try it on Tuesday - Add Some Text

   

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Encouraging Words (Stampendous)

Ink:   VersaMark, Aqua, Monsoon AI (Ranger)

Paper:   Yupo, Black, Gold Foil

Other:  Feathers on the Side EF (Darice), Feather Dies (?), Gold Gilding Flakes ($ Tree), Gold EP, Circle Punches (1/8" & 1/4")

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Sentiment Strips (Alt)

Ink:  Midnight Muse, Aqua, Monsoon AI (Ranger)

Paper:   Yupo, Neenah Solar White

Other:   Floral Stem Collage (PS), Gold Gilding Flakes ($ Tree)

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Holiday Sayings (Inky Antice)

Ink:   Gumball Green, Citrus, Limeade, Botanical AI (Ranger)

Paper:   Yupo, Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil

Other: Gold Gilding Flakes ($ Tree), Pretty Pines Thinlits (ret SU), Quickie Glue Pen, Glitter,

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Irish Blessing (Verses)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Yupo, Neenah Solar White, Acetate

Other: Gold Gilding Flakes ($ Tree), Mini Slimline Double Stitch Die (KS), Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate & Die, (PFS), Gold Foil

Enjoy!

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