Purre Love & Gold Marbled Background How-To

Happy Hump Day! My alcohol inks were sitting around unused for quite a while now. Some how I did not find the time to sit and play with them. Until two days ago when I had trouble falling a sleep and decided to have some night time fun in my craft room - LOL-

A while ago I saw a video on YouTube (unfortunately I can't remember from whom) where someone made an alcohol ink background and then used gold foil on top of it. This looked so very pretty that I had to try! It is very easy too! Here is how it turned out and I'll explain below how I did it.

Isn't this pretty? IRL the shine of the gold foil is amazing! It's hard to catch all the shine in the photo but I think you can get an idea. I used YUPO paper for this technique.
YUPO is a non-porous plastic kind of paper. Ranger sells it in the tim Holtz line as well as other companies. I bought mine from Amazone, I think the brand is Legion. It was a better deal than the Tim Holtz Yupo. It is not real paper nor cardstock, it's made from plastic. This is the perfect surface for the alcohol ink. 

I dropped different pink and purple colored alcohol inks onto a piece of YUPO paper together with alcohol blending solution. I used Rangers alcohol inks for this. To move the ink around you can use a straw or an air puffer tool but I used my Copic air brush tool (without a pen in there of course) and my compressor. I added ink and blending solution until I was happy with the look of my background. Then I waited just a little bit to let the ink starting to dry. 1 to 2 minutes max. depending how warm or cool the room is you are working in. The spots where the ink is pooling together stay wet longer and is kind of sticky, this is what we use to make the gold foil stick. I added the ink and then moved it around using the air blowing from my airbush tool to create smaller and larger areas of "ink clusters".

Now take a piece of gold foil (the one you would normally use with a laminator, mink machine or special gel to make it stick) and put it on top of your background. With your fingers smooth it out and apply some pressure carefully. Do not use your fingernails to rub it down this will ruin your alcohol ink background. Believe me I know first hand - hahaha. If you use your nails you will see ugly marks on your alcohol ink background later! Now peel it off and voila! The gold foil is sticking to all the wet/sticky areas and you have a beautiful gold marbled looking background.

The stamps I used to create my card are from Whimsy's Purre Love clear set and You're my favorite sentiment set - both by Deb Davis from Amped to Stamp.

I stamped onto water color paper, colored with distress inks and fussy cut the images. Some purple and gold sequins finish off my card. Whimsy products used are linked below.

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Whimsy Stamps August PaperDoor - Panda Butt is back!

Hello Whimsy Friends! It's the 10th of the month which means it's time for this month's Paper Door kit. Due to the overwhelming popularity of May's kit, Panda Butt, which sold out in just a few days, we are bringing it back because we know so many of you weren't able to get your hands on this amazing kit.

If you want to know exactly what is in the kit, scroll down - To purchase the kit Click here

Here is my first sample made with products from this kit:

Some angled shots so you can see I used the included Action Wobblers, which makes for a nice moving  3D effect on the card:

Here is what's included in this months Panda Butt Paper Door kit:

• EXCLUSIVE hand chosen 6x6 specialty cardstock/paper collections that aren’t available anywhere else. There are 24 gorgeous sheets of 6x6 papers in different colors and textures selected to coordinate together beautifully. 
• Included are 3 each of 8 different papers. SIX sheets of 8.5x11 heavy weight NEUTRAL card stock in White and Black to make multiple card bases, mattes, and more. 
• SPECIAL EDITION 4x6 clear stamp set “Panda Butt” has been created exclusively for PAPER DOOR.  
• SPECIAL EDITION coordinating Whimsy Shapeology Die set “Panda Butt” to easily die cut all 4 panda images. 
• DARICE® “Vines” embossing folder 
• PREMIUM QUALITY embellishments; Green Glitter Tape and Darice® Black Pom Pom accents  
• SIX Mini Action Wobblers to create interactive projects. 
• NEWLY designed digital papers (2-4 designs) to coordinate with each PAPER DOOR theme 
• PRIVATE access to PDF files with step by step instructions for at least 4 different projects and other bonuses 

Here are the links to the Paper Door Kit depending on your location - the postage is included in the price shown:

USA:  Paper Door Kit for USA customers

Canada/Mexico:   Paper Door Kit for Canda/Mexico customers

International:   Paper Door Kit for International customers

Don't forget that the Paper Door Kits are only available until July 25th! Make sure you get yours today.  I also want to mention that this is NOT a subscription. If you buy this box there are no strings attached. You will only buy this one box and no obligations to by the next one! So feel free to buy with confidence and without pressure of a subscription. 

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Hugs and Hisses

Hello Friends. I am sharing a cute little card today made with one of the newly released Whimsy clear sets illustrated by no other than the super talentend - and my fellow teamie - Melissa Andrew. It's called Nope Rope. It's a fun snake themed set for many occasions. I like snakes, not only as a stamp set ;-) Living here in Florida they are frequent residents in our backyard.  

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto 100lb Hammermill Digital Cover Stock, colored with Copics and cut the image out. For the background I used the Farmhouse Basket Stencil to airbrush with my Copics. 

On the top part of the same card layer I used the Polka Dot Stencil and some NUVO Glimmer Paste - Moonstone. It's quite hard to see in the photo - here is a close-up

The sentiment is also from the same Nope Rope set and was stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and layered onto black cardstock. I adhered the images and the sentiment with foam tape to the background layer and eventually added some matching sequins and enamel dots. I also glazed the balloon and hat with some Glossy Accents. 

My card base is turquoise 110lb Recollections cardstock and the lime green layer is a beautiful soft shimmer cardstock from a former PaperDoor kit.

Copic colors used:

Green: YG00, 03, 13, 25, 17
Pink: RV00, R81, 85, 56, 89
Turquoise: BG000, 02, 45
Background: YG13, BG02

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Whimsy Stamps August Release - Day 5

Happy Sunday and Welcome to Day 5 of the Whimsy Stamps August Release. Today I have a beautiful image from Whimsy's DoveArt collection to share: Apple Branch

The image was stamped with Distress Ink Antique Linen onto Hammermill 100lb paper. I colored the image with Copics in the no-lines technique. I also used the NEW Notched Rectangle die set to cut out the image and the orange layer as well as the ticket shaped sentiment. The background layer was made stamping the Shiplap background stamp with Memento Toffee ink onto kraft cardstock. The sentiment is from an older set called 'You're my favorite' and the little heart can be found on the 'Holiday Occasions' set.

Copic colors used:

Red: R02, 14, 24, 46

Yellow/Orange: Y02, 11, 15 YR15, 18 

Brown: E42, 43, 47, 49, 87
Green: G40, 82, 85 BG96, 99

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Whimsy Stamps August Release - Day 2

Hello All! Welcome to Day 2 of the Whimsy Stamps August Rubber and Clear Release! 

Today I want to show you 3 new products all combined in my card - Cherry Blossom Background Stamp, Notched Rectangle Die set and Cheeky sentiment set:

I stamped the Cherry Blossom Background with Memento Tuxed Black ink onto Hammermill paper. I colored with Copics and cut out the center of the card using the Notched Rectangle dies. I also cut the same rectangle frame from black cardstock several times and used it to pop up my cut out cherry blossom frame. I added some blue outline to the cut out center of the cherry blossom background with a Faber Castell PITT Pastel Pencil. The sentiment from the Cheeky sentiment set was stamped with Versamark ink and white heat embossed onto black cardstock

Here are the Whimsy products I've used:


                        

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Whimsy Stamps August Release Day 1

Welcome Whimsy Friends. It's August 1st and the newest release for Whimsy Stamps is available NOW in the store. There are 5 days scheduled on the Whimsy blog to introduce all the new goodies to you and give you lots of awesome inspiration from our super talented Whimsy Creative Team.

All of the new products are AVAILABLE NOW for purchase. CLICK HERE to be taken directly to the Whimsy store.

It's the first release day today and I will be back with my first creation from this release tomorrow on day 2! So please make sure to stop by again tomorrow :-D

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