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I Sing the Song of my People...

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Just a bit of fun with my stamps, inks and stencils today...   I used Cat Walk   stencil from the March release at  A Colorful Life Designs  and this cute singing  cat from KaztelKraft that I purchased from TopFlight Stamps called Fernand - Les gros chats ! I used My Favorite Things Extreme Black Hybrid ink to stamp Fernand and Copics for coloring.  I used Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink to stencil the background and wrote the sentiment with my Cricut Maker and Cricut fine line black marker. I hand drew the notes, as I couldn't find any tiny note stamps in my stash and then used black bling from EyeLet Outlet to pop up the notes and some fun colorful flower stickers from The Paper Studio.   Although the photo doesn't really show it, the cat is stamped on the background and then stamped separately on another piece of white cardstock and fussy cut and layered on the background with foam tape.  Found some blue cardstock to match in my stash and layered the sentime
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Until...people

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I got this awesome Paws stencil from the March release at  A Colorful Life Designs and knew I had the perfect stamp to go with it.   I just love this peaking cat from kaztelkraft called Ignace Les gros chats ! So I gathered my supplies and started to play... Paws stencil, Fossilized Amber Distress Ink and the cute peeking cat stamp.   I started out with Cougar Opaque Cover 80# Card from Marcos Paper and blended the distress ink on my cardstock using a makeup brush that I got from Amazon.  These brushes make blending so easy!   I put more color in the center of my card and blended out lighter around the edges.   After stamping Ignace the cat on a separate piece of the same cardstock, I grabbed a brush and used the same Fossilized Amber Distress Ink to watercolor the cat and wall.  I used Brushed Corduroy and Antique Linen Distress inks to add a bit of brown to Ignace the cat.      I fussy cut down the edge of the wall and the cat so that
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Coffee Time!

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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.  
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Alcohol Ink Painting Technique

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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 tap and blend the more the alcoh
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More Alcohol Ink and Stencil Play

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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 crow with crown image in Cricut Design Space and cut it out
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Yoga Tree

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...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 Once the
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