Hello, friends! This is Lori from Coast 2 Coast Cards with a fun and quick card today. Have you played with alcohol inks? I wanted to show how easily you can pull a card together with an alcohol inked background.
This is my final panel from blending with alcohol inks. I started with Yupo paper. This is a special paper, with a plastic coating, used for alcohol ink, watercolor, and other wet media. I added some rubbing alcohol onto the paper, dropped a few drops of alcohol ink, then blended with an air blower. That is a tube with a bulb at the base that you squeeze to release air at the other end.
I took a piece of teal cardstock and dry embossed it with the Fantasy Flourish Stencil. To do so, I lightly spritz the cardstock with water, then emboss using my die cutting machine and the sandwich for embossing with a die. This sandwich includes using a flexible mat. Spritzing with water keeps the paper from tearing and increases the design impression.
I stamped the Smile Winged Muse with Copic-friendly black ink. I colored with butterfly wings in shades of blue and purple with alcohol markers from my stash.
I used a stamp die to cut out the image. I wanted a postage stamp look and didn't have a die large enough to cut out the entire image, so I offset the picture to add interest.
Final card. I popped up all layers with foam tape to add dimension. I added a simple sentiment from my stash. This card came together quick and was so fun to make! If you haven't tried alchol inks, I highly recommend it. Not only are they fun and easy to work with but, like watercolor, you never get the same background twice.
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