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

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Joyful Deer

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I hope you are enjoying preparations for holidays if you celebrate them,

and are taking time to take a deep breath and enjoy!

This sweet deer looks like that's just what she's doing.

I had some kits left from my last class and this sweet deer was a perfect fit.

My Copic coloring is looking a little rough.  Some of my markers are

drying out and the nibs are getting rough.

Challenges:

Double D - Christmas Animals

Card Recipe (card 4)

Stamps:  Joyeux Noel (Trinity), Holiday Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Shaded Spruce

Other:  Flurry of Snowflakes EF (Spl), Essential Arches (Spl), Copics (E13, E23, E33, E25, YG93, YG95, YG97, E000, R29, G14, YG17, B0000), Ultrafine Black Sharpie (for doodles)

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Shiny Bauble

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I've been so busy with classes and trying to finish up my Christmas cards that

I have neglected my blog.

That Color Hues challenge has been rolling around in my brain and I finally

took the time to use it for a card.

I found a piece of alcohol inked Yupo paper inked with red and gold that made

a good pairing with this NBUS ornament die. 

There are gold lines in the bauble that were made by rubbing Deco Foil along

the sticky bits of the alcohol ink.  They don't want to show well in the photo.

Then I die cut some pine sprigs from gold foil cardstock and a few little dots from

the leftover piece of gold foil.

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed.

I love how these colors show against a black background.

Challenges:

Color Hues #76 - Red & Metallic Gold

Double D - Stripes or Dots (gold dots)

NBUS #56 - Never Before Used Schtuff (Ornament Die)

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Merry Christmas (IO)

Ink:   Encore Gold

Paper:   Black, Gold Foil, Yupo

Other:  Alcohol Inks (Red Pepper, Gold Mixative), Gold Deco Foil, Fir Sprig die (SSS), Holiday Messages Ornament die (SSS)

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Oh Deer

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I was trying to think of a design using light blue and purple for Color Hues

and found this piece of salted background using these colors.

I also had a NBUS stamp and die set (I just used the dies this time) that was

perfect for the Double D Deer Challenge.  Thanks for the enabling, my friends.

You can barely see the embossing in the background.  That embossing folder

was NBUS too.  I'm slowly whittling away at that NBUS Christmas box.

I sponged some white ink over the embossing then sprinkled some Chunky Frantage

over the top and heat embossed from the back.  Torn scrap paper made the snowbanks

and a stamped purple sentiment finish it up.

Challenges:

Color Hues #75 - Light Blue & Purple

Double D - Oh Deer

NBUS #56 - Never Before Used Schtuff (New Dies)

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bitty Holiday Wishes (MFT)

Ink:   Gorgeous Grape (SU)

Paper:   Watercolor (Strath), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolors (Light Blue, Purple), Salt, Snowy Forest EF, Deer to Me Dies (PTI)

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Leaves and Plaid

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Card made with our craft group.  Hostess provided different fall pieces for us to put

together.  I can identify some of the sources but not the embossing folder.

Challenges:

Double D - Fall Plaids

Male Room #178 - Leaves

Four Seasons - Fall

    

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Every Day Sayings (HA)

Ink:   Encore Gold

Paper:   Neenah Natural, PP (Fall into Autumn-Violet Studio)

Other:  Gold EP, Leaf Dies (Lawn Fawn), Gilded Foundry Wax (TH), EF (?)

  

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Two Sunflowers

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Today I have two very similar cards.

I cut two sunflowers and colored them with Simon Says ink and blending brushes.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them.  The die cuts are quite large and my idea of

using both of them on a card was not working out.

As usual, I went into trial and error mode.

Oops.  I got the sentiment too far to the right.  It was a good excuse for using

one of these self stick buttons I'd recently bought at a sale by a Stampin' Up! demonstrator.

I believe they are retired but I was able to get two sheets of them.

I was glad I had a second sunflower in the wings.

This time I got the sentiment centered.

Challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms #8 - (Inspired by the sunflower on the 1st mood board below)

Double D - Sunflowers (See 2nd mood board below)

Simon Says Wednesday - ATG

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Brushed Calligraphy #2 (Inky Antics), Splatters (?)

Ink:   Chocolate Chip (SU), Lemonade, Sunbeam, Citrine, Pearfection, Field, Sherbet (SSS)

Paper:   Rustic White (PTI), Neenah Solar White, Chocolate Chip

Other:  Sunflower Stem Die (SSS), Stitched Rectangles Die (SSS), A2 Thin Frames Die (SSS)

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Saint Nick

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This is such a fun Santa die and works for a couple of challenges.

Santa is die cut and colored with Copics, popped over and embossed snowflake,

and mounted on some festive paper.

It's scary to think how quickly Christmas will be here!

Challenges:

Double D - Christmas in July (Inspired by bottom right corner)

Jingle Belles - Santa's Hat

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Field Day, Real Red, PP (?)

Other:  Winter Wonder EF (ret SU), Santa Die (Spl), Copics, Snowfall Accent Puff Paint (SU), Birdie Brown Alphabet & Numbers (MFT)

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Yellow Magnolia

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I have a new die...

and with the Color Hues challenge being yellow and green (two of my favorite colors),

I Googled to see if magnolias came in yellow.  They do. 

So I die cut the flowers and branch from mixed media paper and used Distress Markers

and my waterbrush to color all the pieces.

When coloring the leaves and flowers, I laid the pieces on another piece of mixed 

media paper and did a sloppy watercoloring going over the edges onto the

piece in the background.  It gives an interesting background and the colors are perfect.

Then I looked at all those pieces and was stumped as to where they all went.

Fortunately there are some illustrations online that act as a roadmap and I've

got to say that although these flowers are pretty without all the extra little pieces, they are

amazing with them. And I was quite proud of myself that I could find all the pieces!

Challenges:

Color Hues - Yellow & Green

Double D - Color (yellow)

Memory Box Outside the Box #96 - Die-namic cards

NBUS #51 - Never Before Used Schtuff

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Friendship Messages (SSS)

Ink:   Crumb Cake, Twisted Citron, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Brushed Corduroy (DM)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), So Saffron (SU)

Other:  Magnolia Blossom Trio (MB), Magnolia Leaf Branch (MB)

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Painted Poppy

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I do love poppies and have quite a collection of poppy stamps and dies.

So when our craft group was trying to think of a subject for our swap this month,

I suggested poppies.  With Memorial Day coming up, it seemed fitting.

Then I had a problem of choosing which poppy stamp or die to use.

Altenew's Painted Poppy won, hands down!

I stamped and colored it in the traditional Memoria Day red poppy.

Then for my blue loving friends.

Finally in pink.  (The border is pink, but the camera seems to see red.)

I used Bristol paper for all of these.  It warped pretty bad.  I managed to get it flattened.

Note to self to used Mixed Media or Watercolor paper next time.

Challenges:

Double D - Flowers

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Painted Poppy (Alt), Out on a Limb (PTI), Splatters (?)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Tea Dye, Festive Berries, Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss (DI), Tumbled Glass, Wilted Violet Re-inker (for wash)

Paper:   Bristol (Strathmore), Black, Poppy Parade

Other:  Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Painted Poppy (Alt), Out on a Limb (PTI)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Archival Shadow Grey, Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss (DI), Brushed Corduroy DI (for wash)

Paper:   Bristol, Black Pacific Point

Other:  Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Painted Poppy (Alt), Out on a Limb (PTI)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Tea Dye, Picked Raspberry, Aged Mahogany (DI), Tumbled Glass, Wilted Violet Re-inker (for wash)

Paper:   Bristol, Black, Melon Mambo

Other:  Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops

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Poppy Birthday Times Two

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I have had this poppy background stamp and haven't used it nearly enough.

For this card, I stamped with Memento Ink and colored with Copics.

I love these bright colors!

but then....

I like the no-line watercolor look too and these colors are the favorites

of a good friend who has a birthday soon.

Challenges:

Double D Challenge - Things that Fly (Butterfly)

The Flower Challenge #79  - Focus on Background Stamping (Must have flowers)

Seize the Birthday #259 - with topping of Alcohol (colored with alcohol markers)

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Poppy Background (MFT), Fluttering Friends (MFT - sentiment)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Neenah  Solar White, Black

Other:  Copic Sketch Markers (Y13, Y18, Y35, R22, R24, R29, G24, YG17), Black Ultra Fine Sharpie, Black Acrylic Paint, White EP,  White Gel Pen

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Poppy Background (MFT), All Occasions (Jane's Doodles)

Ink:   Warm Glow (GKD), Encore Gold

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches cold press), Neenah Solar White, Shimmery White, Gold Foil

Other:  Gansai Tambi Watercolors (139 Purple, 38 Deep Violet, 67 Deep Blue, 58 Evergreen), Arteza Twimarker (Pear Green, Dreamy Butterfly, Yana's Scripted Sentiments Die (Spl), Gold EP, Gems

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