Badger Circles

Good Morning crafters, Julie here, I hope I find you well today?

An ideal time to craft at the moment now the weather has turned a little chillier....no point in trying to garden! Well, it's another alcohol inks card today, which I found great fun creating. This medium was new to me but I will definitely be creating more of these in the future. Especially some fairy cards I think......

Right, best get on with the write up....I started with a piece of Yupo paper and applied Honeycomb alcohol ink to the Yupo and spread this over using a lint on my applicator tool to give me a base colour.

The I started to drop alcohol inks on, firstly using Juniper, then Teakwood and then some Limeade, this was a little bright so I added some more Juniper to tone it down.

I then applied Blending Solution to my lint and started dabbing away until I achieved my desired effect. I think this is so satisfying watching what you've created change before you eyes.

I then cut a circle out of some super smooth to make a mask for a moon and put this where I wanted it on my background and used the lint with blending solution on to remove the ink and create my moon in the distance.

I left this to dry and selected my Lavinia stamps, these were Badger, Mini Snail, Mini Flutterby  and Ivy border for the base. I stamped these onto my background using Jet Black Archival ink and when dry cut the background down to be square. I found some green card from my stash to mount onto my card blank but decided this looked a little too flat.

I decided to die cut my background using circle dies. Whichever layer I stuck flat the  alternate layers were raised on double sided sticky pads. This added a more interesting dimension to my card I think.

I matted this onto the card base and added some white pen marks to my badger's head and some crystal Stickles to the butterfly to complete the card.

                          

I hope you like my make today, see you next week for another card write up.

Bye for now and happy crafting,

Love, Julie x

Alcohol Inks Landscape With Fox

Hello crafters, Julie here. It's great to be back on the Lisa B Designs blog, January turned out to be unexpectedly busy for me and I missed doing my blog posts. As Friday's classes were about playing with alcohol inks this is the topic for the month here on the blog. This was the first time I've had a play with these and I loved creating the backgrounds, I just wasn't so keen on stamping on them!

I started with a piece of Yupo and zigzagged some Honeycomb alcohol ink over this. I used felt on my applicator tool to spread this evenly on the Yupo to create a main background colour.

Then the fun began with adding dots of alcohol ink around the edges and watching what happened. First I added Flamingo alcohol ink, then Amethyst and lastly some Juniper. I then added some alcohol blending solution to the felt and started working it on my background until I was happy with it.

I die cut a moon template out of some white super smooth card and used this and some 

blending solution to bleach out the area for the moon. When dry I cut the Yupo background down so it was square as I wanted my finished project to be on a square card.

The stamps I used on my created background were:  Fox 1, Flutterby (mini) and Dandelions 2 to edge in, all of which are Lavinia stamps.  I used Jet Black Archival Ink but beware when stamping as the Yupo is a very slippery surface, as I found out!

To finish off I mounted the Yupo onto some brown Mirri card and then onto my square card blank and I added a little crystal Stickles to my butterfly so the light caught it.

                       

   

I hope you like my make today, see you next week for another alcohol ink card.

Love, Julie x