Happy Birthday! Alcohol Ink Card #1

 Hello, Crafty Peeps!

I hope you are having a fabulous week so far!

I created this card for my SIL.  I was playing around with alcohol inks for the first time in over 10 years and the pattern formed by the inks movement was just so pretty, I thought it would make a nice card!  I had planned to hand-deliver it, as is our custom, but she and her husband have COVID, so that was a Nope!

These Kamenskaya Alcohol Inks were a promotional item from Amazon!   I like them.  They perform well and to me are as good as, if not better than, the Tim Holtz Inks!  I used Epson Photo Paper from my stash and 70% Alcohol (99% alcohol is the best.  I didn't have any at the time, so I used what I had.)  The inks performed very well despite the diluted alcohol.

I am trying to use more embellishments so that I can declutter my stash!  I pulled out some butterflies and this one was just perfect.  Although the ink appears grey in this photo, it is actually silver and has a beautiful shine.

The HAPPY sentiment was cannibalized from a slimline card. I didn't like the card but kept it in my stash for moments just like this.  I cut a cute shape, stamped birthday on it and I was good to go!  I  had fun rediscovering my Alcohol Inks!  I have two more cards to share later in the day.  I have a lot of synthetic papers and they work very well with alcohol ink.  Yupo paper is simply too expensive for my non-existent craft budget.  In Real Life, my cards look good!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugz,

Chana Malkah