Happy Birthday Sof'

Ahoy!

I made this card for our lovely daughter who is 19 today.

Happy Birthday R'Kid xx

Loving You!

It's mine & Mr C's 20th Wedding Anniversary today.

Heaven only knows where the last 20 years have gone but one thing is for sure, I wouldn't have wanted to spend it with anyone else.

For my card I made a heart-shaped mask from a MFT heart die and used Worn Lipstick & Barn Door distress inks to colour before flicking some water droplets for that touch of je ne sais quoi.

I fussy-cut two of the pooches from the brilliant Lucky Dog stamp set from MFT (coz we're now doggy-mad) and added them to the card. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted's' A Little Sentimental' stamp set.

Happy Anniversary Mr C ... XXX

International 'Alcohol Ink' Rescue

Real life, dammit, has been getting in the way of late, hence the lack of posts.

I made this alcohol ink card a few weeks back and it's teeny, tiny one.

Stooooopidly I forgot to make a note of the colours....but assume it was reds, yellows n' oranges.

The original finished item was a disaster, but instead of binning it I set it aside for a few days while I pondered its fate.

I can't stress enough about not giving up when your alcohol inking projects go wrong.

I've got several distasterous creations on my desk that I just know I'll love another day. So please, please, please...don't despair if your final piece looks like a nightmare....often a masterpiece lies within.

Believe it or not, when I looked at my mess a few days later, I saw 4 tiny sections that I thought I could rescue so I cut out 4 x 1 inch squares, added foam pads et voila!

A splash of gold glitter and now I'm in love....see...told yer!

Dotty About Alcohol Inks

Cooooooeeeeeey!

Me again....with another alcohol ink creation.

I started this one by simply drizzling blending solution across my piece of 4.5"x4.5" piece of Yupo. I used the heavier weight 200gsm version as I wanted to run it thru' my Cuttlebug at the end.

I added streaks of Raspberry & Purple Twilight and puffed the colours about with my TH air spritzer until dry.

I should have called it a day at this point but oh no...stoooopid me got carried away, added more ink and ruined it....Grrrrr....

Even my toothbrush-ink-flicking went wrong....more Grrrrs!

But I followed my own advice and left it for a couple of days to see if it could be salvaged. 

I used my alcohol ink pen, filled with blending solution, to apply small dots of liquid and soon fell in love again with my disaster.

I used MFT's Stitched Inside & Out Square STAX to give the Yupo an elegant edge and added a silver, glittered, die-cut, birthday sentiment from Clearly Besotted.

I'm so glad I didn't ditch this.