Alcohol Ink Lift Background Tutorial

Hello friends! I hope your weekend was a nice one. We did our usual things this weekend: playgrounds, autumn walks, soccer and playing with friends. 

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog, we have a Monochrome challenge. I love to to a monochrome project now and then. It is really fun to see how many shades of one color that you can achieve. Don't miss the very inventive project by our September guest designer Terelisa Agosti.

Orange is one of those colors that not everybody likes, but I always liked orange and thought it had an unfair bad reputation. So, for this week, I decided to go with an all orange project and I was happy with how it turned out. I was also excited to try the Ranger Alcohol Lift-Ink for the first time and loved the background effect. I've done alcohol ink lifting before, but with Jet Black Archival Ink, and I thought the Alcohol Lift-Ink was very easy to work with in comparison. It also allows for additional techniques, since the lifted ink remains on the stamp. 

Working on Yupo, apply Butterscotch and Valencia alcohol ink, with a felt applicator. Add layers until you are happy with the look. I also dripped a few drops of alcohol ink blending solution on the background. Pounce the felt applicator here and there, to create the smaller dots that you see.

Ink a stamp with Alcohol Lift-Ink and stamp on the surface. Dab off the ink from the surface, to prevent smearing it, and then wipe with a paper towel. Make sure that you use a clean part of the paper towel the whole time. The amount of detail you get is amazing. I used leaf stamps and sentiments from the lovely Nature's Wonder set.

Keep a piece of paper next to you, and each time you lift up an image, stamp it on the second paper. I used glossy cardstock. Look at these very detailed alcohol ink stamped leaves. We couldn't stamp with alcohol inks before, so this is a really cool technique. And the impressions are permanent, so you can use other techniques on top. I am looking forward to using this piece on a project.

Mist a piece of watercolor paper with Distress Spray Stains and finish with a layer of Buttercup Mica Spray.

When dry, die cut Skeleton Leaves from the piece. I love the wonderful details on these leaves. It is a good idea to use the Sizzix Chrome Precision Base Plate to get a perfect cut.

For my roses, I used an old favorite, namely Tim's Tattered Pinecone die, and die cut two roses from orange classic kraft paper.

Sand the edges and roll into roses. I also added some Rock Candy Glitter by first applying Glossy Accents here and there.

For the base of my wall-hanger, I used mat board and covered the edges with orange Deco Tape.

The detailed ghost images of leaves and words in the background are really cool.

The skeleton leaves are very shiny because of the mica spray, a look that works well with autumn projects. I inked the Small Talk stickers with Spiced Marmalade.

The Gumdrop Hearts were colored with orange alcohol ink, so that everything would be orange.

Behind the roses there is a piece of lace which was dyed orange, orange twine and a Mini Provincial border die cut from Sizzix foil and also colored with alcohol ink.

Here'a look at the dimension of the roses.

The STAMPtember® celebrations are continuing at Simon Says Stamp, with surprises and happenings almost every day. You can see the whole wonderful STAMPtember® release here. 

I hope you will join us this week in our Monochrome challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today!  

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin

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