For One Moment - Little Snippets of my Life and Art...

I was wanting to make a coffee themed card yesterday...so I started thumbing through my stencils to see what I had that would work for the background.   I found this stencil by A Colorful Life Designs that filled the bill.  Although this one is called Pebbles , I saw little coffee beans!! I used several colors of Distress Ink on white card stock, Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide. Next I used Art Glitter Glue to layer the panel to a darker brown piece of cardstock and then to a medium A2 card.  I used my Cricut Maker to cut the center panels out of white and dark brown.  Using my Distress Inks I grunged the edges of the background and aged the white top panel. I used an older stamp set by TPC Studio called Coffee Cafe, and stamped the coffee mug and coffee beans, a few pieces of bling and a little pencil coloring on the coffee cup and it is ready to go to a coffee loving friend. ...

Hello Stepping out with pictures to demonstrate a simple tapping and blending technique for painting with  Alcohol Ink. Items Needed  Alcohol Blending Solution Time Holtz Alcohol Pearls Round Blending Tool 1 Felt Blending Pad 1 4x5 inch piece of Grafix Opaque White Craft Plastic  Apply 5 or so drops of Blending Solution to felt pad.   (About the size of a dime) Apply about 4 drops of blue Alcohol Pearl Ink. Either blue depending on your preference. I chose Tranquil. Use a close knit tapping motion to lay in the sky.  Continue to tap and lay in the color, going over areas you've already done until you achieve the look you like whether it be large fluffy cells or small cells.  Sorry I wasn't able to keep it totally in the frame, but I was trying to hold the phone in one hand and film while I used the other hand for blending.  I think I need more practice!! LOL The longer you t...

Lifting Ink Through a Stencil Spent some more time playing with alcohol inks with no particular design in mind, so I had quite a stack of backgrounds and I figured I should at least put them to good use.  Although they are fun to look at just as they are!   The first piece I used was mostly greens and blues with a bit of gold foiling.   I used the Concentric Circles stencil by A Colorful Life Designs  and Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Blending Solution to lift the color from the card.   I got a little heavy handed when putting the Blending Solution on my Tim Holtz Mini Application Tool.  OOPS!  After lifting the stencil I saw that it ran under the stencil a good bit but I kind of liked the effect so I just went with it.  I used a paper towel to dab and polish off the extra Blending Solution. I like how the gold foiling highlighted the concentric rings of color between the circles.  I found a c...

...a Little Mind Yoga Needed some "me" time today so I decided to do a little playing with my alcohol inks.  The brand I used today are the Brea Reece alcohol inks by Memento.  I used Lavender, Mustard, Olive Green and Ocean Green (not pictured) on Yupo paper. I also used Pinata Brass and 91% alcohol along with USArtQuest Duo adhesive and Heidi Swapp foil in champagne. I started out playing with the inks with no real plan in place other than experimenting with just the Brea Reese inks and alcohol.  I didn't use any blending solution or extender today.  I just added dots of color and alcohol and blew them around with my airbrush...pushing the color out and in until I was pleased.  I put a good sized drop of the Ocean Green ink (which is really quite blue) and then contained it by putting a medicine bottle cap over it to keep it within a circle while I played with the yellow and green around it and removed it when I was done and let it all dry ...

Stuck in the Sixties I've been very nostalgic lately and have been on a 60s kick with Sirius XM 60s of 6 playing in my truck and reliving my hippie wanna be days.  As I was going through my A Colorful Life Designs   stencils this past weekend, I thought this  Flowers Gone Wild  stencil would be perfect for some 60s themed cards. I had hoped to get better pictures, but it has been gloomy and overcast since the weekend and I haven't been able to get any decent light, so I decided to go with the shots I have.  I ran out of playtime this weekend or there would have been several more cards using this stencil.  It is SO fun to work with! Messy, Clean and Colorful Flowers Gone Wild Stencil All cards were done on Yupo medium weight that I picked up at my local art store.  It can also be found in the art section at Hobby Lobby and also as part of the Tim Holtz line of products.  I love working on Yupo!  It works great fo...