Alcohol Blend Coloring

Hello and welcome everyone, I'm Jennifer McGuire and I hope your day is going well. I'm back with another video showing some

alcohol

inking techniques. I have made many videos in the past, but today is about

coloring

with an

alcohol

mixture. This is great. way to get wonderful looks from alcohol ink backgrounds that you create by combining them with prints. I have many examples to share with you today, but I want to tell you that if you have never seen an alcohol ink video, I encourage you to watch it first. I'll link to one here that shows the basics of creating an alcohol ink background.

All my cards start with the basic background and add pattern and color. Today I'm using Tim Holtz alcohol inks. I recently changed the way I store. these alcohol inks I now use the alcohol ink storage cans that Tim Holtz came out with at the bottom of the can. I have a small circle that is printed with the color and color name that I got from the Ranger website. I printed it. I laminated it, die cut it with some circle dye, and then glued it to the base of my can so I knew where each color went on the can so I could keep things organized.

I also created a small swatch of each color. I put the alcohol ink on yupo paper, let it dry, and then made a small circle that I glued to the top of each bottle so I could quickly see the color of each one. I find this very useful and these little tins stack nicely in my cabinet so I can easily find what I need along with the alcohol inks. I will be using yupo paper on all my cards today. Push paper is a fun synthetic paper. I chose to use the heavy Tim Holtz version, but you can use any yupo paper you can.

You can also use Tim Holtz glossy cardstock for this, but I really like you to use paper, so on the paper that you put down I'm adding different colors of alcohol ink and I'm using an alcohol ink brush or any kind of brush would work. to mix the colors or move them together, so I use a straw to blow air and force the colors to move. Now, as I mentioned, there are many ways to make an alcoholic fund in many ways and I will link them. For that basic video here, make sure to see that I'm not going to show all of the backgrounds that I created today because they are all created similarly to this one, but if you want more examples, check out that video, okay, once it was done with this .

I let it dry. You can let it dry for 20 minutes or overnight. It doesn't really matter for this technique. You can let it sit as long as you want. I have a bunch of alcoholic backgrounds that I created and I just sat where I was experimenting and I never use them and I use some of them in today's examples, so if you create a background that you're not excited about, don't worry, you can probably apply some techniques to it different. to make it more attractive for you, like today's technique, now my head gets in the way here sometimes because I'm blowing air through a straw onto the surface to move the colors.

I found that when I blow air through a straw, I can really control how much the color moves and it really gives the best results. Okay, now that I have a few different backgrounds created, I notice that I have some alcohol ink on my glass work surface. I don't want it to go to waste, so I'm taking another piece of yupo paper and dragging it through that extra color. I'm even adding a little bit of alcohol ink mixing solution, which is a clear product that allows the colors to move even more when I put it on the glass like you see me.

Doing it here reactivates all that color, allows it to move a little more and I can add more to my paper, so I have this soft background that I created just to avoid wasting color on the glass, but I can also use it in a future project. Now today's video really focuses on using the Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Refillable Pen. With this pen, you can create a personalized pen with your favorite alcohol inks, simply place them inside the pen. It has two tips, one that is like a bull tip and one that is more like a brush tip and when you color with them, it reminds me of when I color with Copic markers.

The tips are very durable. Now I am NOT going to put an alcohol ink color here, but rather I am going to mix ink with alcohol. solution for you to take out the tip of the brush, you can see there is a small piece of metal on it, you are supposed to use tweezers to take it out. I just use my fingertips and I'm going to squeeze a few times for about four seconds. of Tim Holtz alcohol ink mixing solution. Remember this is what moves our color when we create an alcohol ink background, so I filled the barrel of the pen with that squeeze for about four seconds, put the tip back on and then I'll put it in or put it in and roll it a few times to let the solution absorb into the two different tips before attempting to use it and remember that you can make your own pens by putting color here if you wish. but for today's technique I want that alcohol mixture solution to be able to remove the color or move it away, so let's do the first example.

I have one of the alcohol ink backgrounds I created before cutting it out and am saving those extra pieces. this was reduced to approximately four and a quarter by five and a half. Then I have the pretty and elegant pink fall wreath stamp set. I'm really a big fan of the set. I like the style of the wreath and I like that there are fall elements. However, I also like to include a little flower on the wreath so if you want to stamp it, cut it out and cover the acorns on the wreath so you can turn it into a spring or summer wreath.

I really like stamp sets that give you a few options. I'm just going to use the crown as it is along with the greeting in the center. I'm putting my piece of alcohol ink into my Misti stamping tool. You don't need to use a stamping tool for this, but I found it to be a big help. I have placed the crown and salute on the stamping tool and now I am going to use an anti-static powder tool on the surface of the alcohol ink. Alcohol inks are sometimes a little sticky, so you want to be sure to use them. antistatic powder tool generously so that when we heat emboss we get a clear image so I'm inking my stamp with Versamark ink this is just a clear adhesive ink and I'm stamping this on my background.

Then add some white fine embossing powder or white detailed embossing powder. Any embossing powder would work here because I use the anti-static powder tool. The embossing powder will only stick to the places we embossed with Versamark now, when heat embossing on Yupo paper, make sure to let your heat gun heat up for a long time before taking it to the paper and keep the heat moving because it won't you want to warp the Yuba paper, but it's definitely possible to emboss Yupo paper like I did with all of them. of my examples today, so now I'm taking the brush tip of my

blend

ing pen and I'm

coloring

my image, but when I color, I'm actually removing, we're moving the color and transferring it to its scrap piece.

The paper that is left looks very dull when I color these images and eliminates the shine you get with alcohol ink on the yupo paper around the image. At this point I realized I was wasting all the color I was removing. Why not put it on another card? So I use platinum embossing powder and heat emboss the same image on white cardstock, just old white cardstock, and I take the color that I lift from my alcohol ink background and place it on top of that. The white background just colors the images and provides a nice color transfer and when you move this color around it feels like you are coloring with Copic markers because you can

blend

them very easily if you find there is too much. certain color on the tip of your pen, you can simply scribble it on the scrap paper to remove it.

If you don't have a plan like the one I'm using today, you could put some alcohol ink mixing solution on your work instead. surface and pick it up with the fine brush or a small tool to do this technique. I used to use micro brushes for my adhesive. I couldn't find any of my stash to show you, but I'll link to them below, those would be Good for this technique too, another thing you can do is with those scraps, those leftover bits of alcohol ink background, you can pick up color and color with them any image you want, so here I am picking up some of that vibrant red. and adding it to some of the berries so you can use this for a basic color scheme.

Now here's another background where I heat emboss the same image and I'm doing the same technique, this time I'm picking up some blues and greens from that. background and you can see that I'm adding it to our example on the right and I can easily match these colors with this marker and I find that these tips hold up very well even though I use them for a lot of examples today. On top of the heat stamping surfaces, now this card on the left, you won't see a final card example today because I spilled coffee on it, but I wanted to show you how the technique worked with those colors.

Here's another example I made. and I noticed that when I did my technique of using the alcohol blending pen to remove the color, my white embossing powder didn't stay crisp and white, so I decided to heat emboss with white one more time right above the image . I've done it before so here I stamped with Versamark ink adding white embossing powder and I'll heat set it and that makes my outline nice and bright white once again so let's look at the examples that have been created so far here, you can see the dull color inside the images because we removed it with that blending solution in the pen and the bold color around the images.

I like how it's the opposite of what we normally do now. You may notice that all of the envelopes in today's video have a kindness theme. feeling about it I wanted to show you real quick what this set of simple, pretty and elegant pink sayings stamps is. I really like the sentiments here and that it is small so the price is X here is the other example I created. I added one for you. sentiment die cut in the center and also some pearls scattered throughout the crown. I like the bold fall colors in the background here and again.

You have the sentiment of mater goodness in the envelope. The one for you is this pretty and elegant pink. I'm grateful that you die. I just used the words for on you, die cut three of each out of white cardstock, glued them together to give it a stacked look, and added them to the center of the wreath. You can make one die cut layer if you want, but stack three together. it stands out even more than our bonus card, this is the one where I put all the ink that we lifted with the alcohol ink pen and put it on this card, so again I did a heat stamping set with platinum embossing powder and I used our excess alcohol ink. coloring the flowers, so it's a great way to do multiple cards at once, so if you have extra funds of alcohol ink that you're not using, you can use that color with the pen to color another card that you may have.

The card below features this stylish new pink stamp set. I heat emboss the flower cluster onto an alcohol ink background that I created on yupo paper as I showed you before. I also emboss this same image on plain white cardstock with silver embossing powder. and those are the two pieces you see here. I have my alcohol ink mixing pen filled with the alcohol ink mixing solution just like I had it before. I haven't reloaded it at all and I'm removing color from the colorful piece and adding it to the white piece so you can just scribble it on scrap paper, but you can also put that extra color to good use after you've removed all the color from those flowers on the blue background.

I decided to hot emboss some leaves onto that card. too, but I wanted to add a little bit of green color to those leaves, so this extra alcohol ink background on the right that I poured coffee on. I'm taking some green ink to move it onto my blue background using that. Same alcohol ink mixing pen now. I know people are going to ask if they can use Copic markers for this and I wanted to show them that they can do it here. However, I do not recommend it. Kopeks are very expensive and I don't feel like that. should be used for this.

I'm not sure if it would cause any damage. Sometimes embossing powder leaves marks on the tips so I wouldn't recommend doing this although as you can see it is possible to do it well so I added a thank you die. I cut the feeling out of this. I cut it from that thank you die cut that I showed you earlier and stacked three white die cuts together and then a gold mirror die cut on top to give it a lot of shine and then stamped it for you. the small Simon Says Stamp word stamp placed on a thin strip of white cardstockand glued too so you can see that blue color that we lifted from the flowers, the green that we added and that bold color around everything now that I'm I'm going to continue with more examples and I wanted to mention that I didn't have to refill my pen with the mixing solution, a little goes a long way and that pen holds up really well, so here's another example, this one featuring the Simon Says stamp. altar new delicate twig combo now this stamp set is exclusive to Simon Says Stamp and is a limited edition and I thought the sentiments were beautiful so I white heat embossed them on a background I created with alcohol inks on ti po 'pay per como el On other cards I also hot emboss the same images on white cardstock with black embossing powder.

I lifted the color from the inked background with alcohol and transferred it to the white cardstock background. In this example, you can see a rainbow of color that we ended up with. In both pieces in this example you can really see the shine that the alcohol ink has on the outside, but on the inside of those images you get a very matte finish. Here is the additional card that I made with the excess ink on white cardstock, now I cut them both out and put them on a card along with a Simon Says Stamp Maryland die cut.

I wanted a tone on tone look so on one card I used white on white on the other. use black on white, you can see I have used my alcohol ink pen on many cards with many different colors, you can easily scribble the color of the tip before using a new one, okay, here is a Christmas card using a new Product by Tim Holtz and Simon Says Stamp. This is the ember 2018 stamp set. It is exclusive to Simon Says Stamp in its limited edition. So, this stamp set also includes some stencils, so there are these for layering stencils.

I wanted to quickly show you how to use them before jumping into the card in case you were wondering. These templates are great. In fact, you can use them twice by changing them slightly to create a pattern. If you look closely at the template, you'll see that it's hard to see here. there are trees bordered on the stencil, you look through those little borders and you line them up with the stencil that you already made and then you ink them with another color to create a fun pattern, so look at that fun background that I wanted to show you because there is also a star stencil that works the same way I think it's great and they are sold with that stamp set so I have an alcohol inked background that I created on yupo paper.

I added my anti-static powder tool and am stamping this with Versamark. ink and adding white powder to highlight details. I'm also stamping the same image with black versafine ink on regular white cardstock and adding clear embossing powder so I have two images so I can work together and create two cards at once again. that same alcohol ink pen lifts the green background color with alcohol ink and adds it to the white cardstock background so you can see how easy it is to lift the color scheme and if I feel like I've removed too much, I don't.

I don't want to transfer it to my white cardstock. I can scribble it on scrap paper. I'll be honest. You will get more background color linked to the alcohol. Then you will have to complete your image on your white cardstock. Now you can. I see all of that mixed up when I did this over my white embossed image, so I'm going to re-heat emboss white again right on top just to make the outline sharper after coloring on the top of this piece, you can notice that that relief becomes dull, all you have to do is reheat it with your heat gun and it will shine again now for the feeling that wanted peace and joy, but not the rest of the feeling.

I have been known to cut my stamps so I can get new looks, it doesn't damage them as long as you cut between the lines of the image so I have peace and joy in the mice Misti Stamping Tool I stamp on vellum with Versamark ink and then add gold stamping with heat, this gives a beautiful golden glow that I can have on top of my image on my card. I cut out my heat embossing sentiment into a strip that I can wrap around my alcohol inked piece when I assemble my card. Next, I'll create a notecard background using the stripe stencil that is included with that Tim Holtz ember stamp set.

I placed the stencil face down, applied Cut Grass Distress Rust Ink, then moved it around to line up those edge lines you can barely see there with the lines I already inked, and then applied Lucky Clover Distress Rust Ink , so I ended up with these perfect stripes running down the center of my card. I like that subtle touch of interest for the background of a card. Okay, both of the cards I created using this technique have a square of four. and a white card measuring one quarter by four and a quarter inches. I just cut out my sentiment strip to say piece, I just wrapped it around my alcohol ink piece and added it to the card base with foam tape now for the other panel, I'll give it a try.

I placed the peace and joy sentiment strip around it and added it to our striped note card base now the peace and joy covers a lot of our image that we have there in the center so I might go back and cut it out so that just say peace. so more of the image can be shown, but this shows you again how you can get two cards with one technique. Ok now I have just a couple more cards for you and this technique is my favorite it's a little different than the other one and I really like the results so the products I used on these cards are from the new sketched flower kit from Simon Says Stamp.

Now I just seem to be drawn to certain card kits that really offer great value and this one definitely has an alcohol ink. ink pad and it has three colors of alcohol ink it has a large stamp set I'm about to use cardstock and also some foil supplies those three cards on the left are pre-printed cards our card fronts that are ready to foil All you have to do is take the foil from the kit, place it on top of that piece, run it through a laminator and you'll have a beautiful laminated card. There are a lot of things in this kit, so I wanted to show them to you. and I will be using the stamp set now, call the lifting ink and alcohol inks, however you can purchase all of these supplies separately.

I'll link them all below if you want to check them out, okay, so I started by paying them both. adding those three colors of alcohol inks and letting it dry and that's the piece you see here now, this time I'm going to stamp this with the alcohol ink pad which is that ink pad that I just showed you in the kit. however, you can purchase it separately if you don't know about alcohol ink. I'm going to link a video here that shows all kinds of techniques for using it, but basically when you stamp on an alcohol inked background the alcohol removes the color.

You stamped, all you have to do is remove the extra ink with a dry cloth and check it. You get this ghostly image, so this time I'm going to color that ghostly image with that alcohol pen. The same one I've been using throughout the video and I'm going to remove the color and transfer it to that extra piece of white cardstock with the stamped image that you see at the top, so earlier I was coloring this white heat embossed image. This time I'm just coloring that ghostly image I got from the alcohol ink. I actually like the results of this better than the examples I showed you before, but I know not everyone has the alcohol ink, so I wanted to show both.

Once I have colored the entire image with my alcohol ink blender pen, I will stamp again just above the first image with Versamark ink and this time I will heat stamp it white and this will give it a nice crisp white outline. that color that we did or the color removal that we did, so I cut out that panel and added it to a white note card. I also added a thank you die cut from that thank you die cut I showed you earlier and a "you're so kind" sentiment strip. In the small Simon Says Stamp word stamp set you can see that bold color that is a rounder image and how we were able to remove the color using that mixing solution in that alcohol ink mixing pen.

Now I removed all that color and transferred it to this. piece that is just plain white cardstock with a black heat-embossed image. I used a thank you die, this is actually a thank you leaf shaker die so it cuts out this little shaker window but I cut out the leaf shaker part so it just had the word thank you and it fits nicely on the space of this card, then there are ways to use the Tim Holtz alcohol blending pen, fill it with an alcohol blending solution to remove and transfer color. If you don't have this pen, remember that you can paint your alcohol mixing solution with a very fine brush. but this pen is useful because it holds well and you can use it for many cards.

I hope this has been helpful to you in learning more ways to use your alcohol inks. I linked all the supplies I used in my YouTube description below. I also have a couple more videos in between, Alcohol Inc videos that you might like. I appreciate all the time you spend with me here crafting. I hope this was helpful and see you soon.