Alloy W/Alcohol Inks

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For today's card, I will again be playing with alcohol inks but this time adding in one of the new Alloys! This is my first time trying Alloys and let me just say, I love them!!! I will be showing you the color Gilded, which is a gold on today's card. I also have the Sterling, which is a silver and I tried that one on the side. I did not get the "leafing" effect as I did with the gold, I got more of the look that you would get with using the silver mixative. I'm not sure if this is normal or not? However, I am thrilled with the results I achieved with the Gilded color. I will also be using a brand new cover die from Pinkfresh Studio. This die measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", covering the entire card front. This is the perfect die to showcase my alcohol inked background. Sometimes it's hard cutting into a beautiful panel, but with this die it gives a design with lots of large openings. My greeting die is from a company that is new to me called Paper Rose. I recently ordered some of their dies, and I am very pleased with their products, also the prices are very reasonable. Let's get started!!

I will doing all of my work today on my Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat.

To start, I take a 5" x 7" piece of Yupo Paper and add some Blending Solution to it. I then add several drops of Laguna Alcohol Ink followed by Fiesta Alcohol Ink. Finally, I add a few drops of Gilded Alloys Alcohol Ink. I then take my Air Blower and start moving the colors around. To break up the alloys even more I add a few more drops of the Blending Solution and continue to move the color. Once I'm satisfied with the look I leave the panel to dry. The last photo shows a close up of the beautiful alloys! *Notice that I only used two colors of ink, but look how many different colors these two create!

After my panel is completely dry, I take my Ornate Floral Die and place over the top of my inked panel. I then run them through my Big Shot Die Cut Machine. I will be using all of the negative pieces from the cut, I will save the frame for a future card.
*Remember when using dies to cut alcohol inked backgrounds, there may be ink that sticks to the metal. After die cutting my panel, I always take a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol on it and go over all the cutting edges of the die to remove any ink.

Next, I take the same die and cut out of Vellum, running them through my Big Shot. Using Spray Adhesive, I spray the back of my vellum frame and adhere it onto a white card base. I like to set my MISTI on top for a couple of minutes until the glue sets.

Now I start the process of gluing all of the alcohol inked pieces back into the frame using Liquid Glue. This takes a little bit of time, but I enjoy it and find it relaxing. If die cut inlaying is not for you, you could skip die cutting the alcohol inked panel and instead cut out of white cardstock then adhere the white frame over the inked panel to achieve a similar look. I wanted to use vellum even though it was going on top of white. I love the look vellum gives, more of a softer look than just stark white.

I now take the Friend Layered Die and cut out of white cardstock using the outline die three times and the shadow die once out of Vellum, running them through my Big Shot. I then stack and glue the word die cuts together using Liquid Glue.

Next, I trim a thin strip of white cardstock using my Tim Holtz Guillotine Paper Trimmer and place into my MISTI Stamp Positioner. For a sentiment, I choose one from the Sentiment Strips 2 Stamp Set and stamp using Versafine Clair Nocturn Ink. I then trim off each end at an angle. I also adhere my greeting onto the vellum shadow using Liquid Glue.

When I went to add my greeting onto the card front, I felt that it didn't look right with the vellum shadow just laying flat on the card. I didn't want to trim foam tape that thin but wanted some dimension behind the vellum. To create dimension behind the shadow die without showing through the vellum, I thought it would be easiest to stack dies "behind" the word. I take the word die and again cut three times out of white cardstock using my Big Shot. I then start gluing to the back of the vellum one at a time using Liquid Glue. This worked out perfect and I think I will use this method going forward when using shadow dies cut out of vellum.

I adhere the greeting onto my card front using Liquid Glue. I then add a strip of Foam Tape to the back of my sentiment strip and mount just below the greeting and this finishes off my card.

I love creating backgrounds using alcohol ink and adding in the Alloys takes it to a whole other level!! I was so amazed how this panel turned out, I only used two colors but it looks like I used at least four or five! I hope you enjoyed today's card and learned a couple of tips.


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Jeannie