I created this card using Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, lace, and faux pearls.
I used the smooshing technique to make this card. I put distress ink on a glass media mat; spritzed it with water until the water beaded; and smooshed the watercolor paper into the distress ink. I repeated this process a few times until I achieved the look I wanted.
I created this card using Lavinia stamps, alcohol inks, and blending solution.
I’ve entered this card in the May Lavinia Stamps Challenge.
This card was definitely a challenge!!! There’s always a learning curve each spring, when I can throw open my windows and use my alcohol inks again. As autumn turns to winter, I insulate my windows for the extreme Minnesota climate. It’s important to have adequate ventilation when using these inks, so I wait until the spring.
Whenever I’ve tried to make a scenery card with these inks, I haven’t succeeded. I watched an alcohol ink video by Tracey Dutton (Lavinia Stamps) and decided to give it another try. I put a few drops of Glacier and Ginger alcohol ink onto Yupo paper, added some blending solution, and moved the paper around to swirl the inks. I let that dry a bit, then added some drops of Ginger around the bottom, and used a TH alcohol ink blower to manipulate the ink. Success!!! I had hope now!
Next, I stamped the images. I used archival ink on the tree stamp, and the image turned out perfectly. Then I tried the fairy stamp. NOooooooo!!! The image was only partially stamped. (I knew it was something I did, or didn’t do, because this stamp has such incredible detail.) When I lifted the stamp, it had clung to the Yupo, so I couldn’t reposition the paper and restamp the image. There was no way I could fix it. I loved how the alcohol ink background had turned out, so I was determined to make the card work!
I remembered seeing a beautiful fairy card with an alcohol ink background. The images had been stamped on a transparency sheet and then placed over the background. I tried it. I stamped the fairy image, as well as the verse, on a transparency sheet.
I wanted to add sparkle to the fairy’s wings so I used a clear Gelly Roll pen (on the Yupo paper) and also added dots of sparkle around the card with it.
Positioning the fairy, that was stamped on the transparency, precisely over the partially stamped image on the Yupo paper was challenging. If it wasn’t exact, the image would look blurred. I used Scor-Tape to attach the transparency to the Yupo paper once I had that lined up. The Scor-Tape did show through the transparency, so I put strips of copper foil cardstock around the edge of the card to cover it.
To finish the card, I attached the Yupo paper to a black cardstock base.
Last challenge: It was very difficult to get a good image of the card. Because of the transparency, the camera and everything in the room was reflected back onto the card and looked like it was a part of it. I ended up using three white tri-folds; one against the wall, one on the floor, and one against me, while trying to get a good angle with my camera. My cat was watching me, and I’m sure she was thinking ‘Crazy human!!!’
Materials Used:
Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Yupo Paper, Translucent
Copper Foil Cardstock
Transparency Sheet (I bought mine on Amazon-Apollo Plain Paper Copier Transparency Film.)
Black Cardstock Base
Lavinia Stamps: Finn, See a Fairy, and Christmas Tree Group (Tracey Lavinia Dutton is the artist of the Lavinia stamps.)
Ranger Alcohol Inks: Glacier and Ginger
Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Air Blower
Tim Holtz Alcohol Blending Solution
Tim Holtz Stamp Platform (I should try an acrylic block next time with these inks.)
Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black
Sakura Gelly Roll Pen, Clear
Scor-Tape: 1/4″ and 3/8”
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