Monday, October 06, 2014

Alcohol Marbling tutorial...... and Pooh!

As new challenges are posted for Hope You Can Cling To, each of our hostesses has been sharing a little bit about themselves and their connection with the event. In my post, I shared about my lifelong love of Winnie the Pooh - here's one of the challenge cards I made for this week, using a marbled alcohol ink background. Audrie created our site tutorial for the technique, but I did have a video in the works already, so I finished it up for my blog instead. This is the background I made in the video below, and I shared this card as a variation on her tutorial page.


I make my alcohol backgrounds on my craft mat, and instead of glossy cardstock I use a clay-coated cardstock that I've found works a little better than the glossy. The brand I use is called Mohawk Color Copy Ultra Gloss and it's sold by the ream - you can sometimes find it online under the name Kromkote as well. This is the same card that I use for gel printing and it works wonderfully.



The sentiment and banner die are both my designs, available through Impression Obsession.


Here's how I created my background, along with a tip for adding pattern!




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14 comments:

  1. I love the way your background turned out!

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  2. Wonderfully easy way to do this background without having to have bottles of copic re-inkers. Think I will try it in Christmas colors.

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  3. Holly Saveur10/07/2014 4:35 AM

    gorgeous..thank you for the great video!

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  4. Great video tutorial Dina, thanks for the idea! Must get my Copics out......Miranda

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  5. Gorgeous background! Love this technique and the pretty card you created. Thank you for making the video.

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  6. Nice and easy. Great tutorial. Love the colours!

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  7. Dina, it turned out beautiful. I've done this before, but like the colors you used. The Winnie the Pooh stamp is so cute too. Thanks. Edna

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  8. What a fun and absolutely beautiful technique.....thank you Dina for sharing!!!!
    Hugs,
    Jan

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  9. So sweet, a perfect card that I would love to send to Jen Young in Hawaii recovering from her breast cancer surgery.

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  10. Gorgeous card.....Thank you for the video

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  11. Gorgeous card and thank you for the video......

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  12. Thank you for this tutorial. The demo piece made a lovely background for this pretty card. I'd like to try this technique.

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  13. I'm with you on loving Winnie the Pooh. The tutorial was a great one. I've done the technique before with reinkers but it's been ages ago. This looks much easier. The card is super! What regulaar white CS do you use? I usually use Stampin Up whisper white, but I don't feel it's really heavy enough for card bases. Any thoughts?

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  14. Love the Winnie the Pooh stamp...could you give details on it? Thanks.

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