Hello, Crafty Peeps!
I hope you are having a fabulous week so far!
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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.
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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