CC 102 Alcohol Inks Challenge

Front

The CC 102 Week 3 Challenge was to create a tag using any alcohol ink technique.

I applied my color dots of alcohol ink to my cotton pad on my blending tool.  I then pounced it all over a coated tag to make a background and then stamped over the dried tag with Ranger Archival Ink. Next I applied some rubbings onto the tag.

Next I dipped a paint brush in blending solution and brushed over the butterflies and dragonfly to lighten their color a little so they would stand out more.

Next I dipped a stamp in blending solution and stamped it on the tag.  You can see the vague outline of a butterfly to the right of the top butterfly and above the dragonfly.  It actually doesn't show up as well in person as it did on the camera.  I'm not sure I would do it again.  Even though I washed my stamp off thoroughly afterwards I am still a little worried about the effect on my stamp long term.

Back

After I created the background for the front of the tag I flipped it over, added some blending solution to my pad and drug it down and then across the tag to make a plaid pattern.  I pounced over it in a random motion to soften it a little bit.

Hope you like it!

-R