Madonna with Alchohol Inks

Another card using alchohol inks and stamping, just with different colours and different stamps

Classical Art with Alchohol Inks

This is another card that was created using alchohol inks and stamping. Three different inks were blended onto glossy card, then an image was stamped on top with stazon ink.  The main focal panel was matted and layered onto contrasting card and then attached to the base card. A greeting was added using a piece of the glossy card trimmed from the focal panel.  This is a simple but effective card to make.

Elegant Peacock

This card features one of my favourite stamps.  The peacock was stamped and heat embossed onto white card, then painted with H2O's.  Once dry the image was cut out with a border around it, the edges of the panel were then coloured with a brilliance ink pad, the ink being dragged along the card.  The panel was then matted and layered onto blue card.  The base card is white hammered card that has been stamped with a trailing vine (Lavinia Stamps) in blue brilliance ink.  Then the main panel was attached to the card, a tag was punched out, stamped with the vine and a greeting and finished with a bow.

Alchoholic Pear

The main focal panel of this card was made using alchohol inks on glossy card to create the background, then the focal image of the pear was stamped and heat embossed on top.  The reverse side of a small white domino was coloured, stamped and embossed in the same way and added as an embellishment.  The leafy border was stamped onto hammered cardstock as a base for the card, using a brilliance ink.  The main focal panel was then matted and layered onto the card.

Under The Cherryblossom Tree.

This card uses the same geisha girl stamp as on the"Oriental Watercolour" card.  This time it has been stamped with pigment ink and heat embossed, then a cherryblossom branch has been stamped in the same way to create perspective.  Then the geisha girl image has been stamped onto vellum.  All stamped images were then painted with H2O's.  When dry the girl was masked off and the chinese script was stamped over her, giving the impression that it is behind her when the mask is removed.  The Vellum image is torn into pieces and one piece is laid over the main focal one,then secured with brads.

Oriental Watercolour

This oriental style card  uses a stamped image with a water colour effect as the focal point .  It is inspired from a design by Barbara Gray, and uses two of her Clarity Stamps as the focal point.  The images have been stamped with dye ink onto watercolour card, then a water brush was used to drag colour from the outlines to fill in the image and smudge it slightly.  The geisha girl was masked using low tack masking paper cut to shape to enable me to stamp the tree over her, then peel the mask off to reveal the girl in front of the tree.  The focal panel was matted and layered onto gold pearlescent card, which was then attached to the base card which is in the shape of a ginger jar.  The jar has been stamped around the edges with clear Versamark ink using fern and chinese caligraphy images.  A dragonfly was stamped onto the same gold card used for matting, heat embossed, cut out and 3D'd onto the card.  A ribbon and an oriental coin provide the finishing touch.

Lilac Butterflies

This card uses several techniques.  The images on the base cardstock have been stamped and heat embossed, then coloured with glitterpens.  The central background panel has been painted with pearlescent watercolour paints then stamped using white stazon ink, the flowers have been coloured with glitter pens to emphasize detail.  The dragonfly has been stamped onto velum, the flowers coloured and then the image cut out and attached to the card by the body.  The wings and antenna have been folded up slightly to create movement.  A seperate piece of velum  was stamped and heat embossed with the same floral swirl as on the rest of the card. The edges of the velum were torn and attached to the background panel by folding the ends around the back of the panel.