Tamara's Paper Trail: Alcohol Painting - Stampin' Creative Global Blog Hop

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Alcohol Painting - Stampin' Creative Global Blog Hop

Happy Blog Hop Day! Each month talented Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from around the globe bring your projects they have created around a common theme, and using only current Stampin' Up! products. We hope they bring you inspiration! This month the theme was "Sketch" ... so many options!

Sketches are a GREAT way to get your Mojo going. I very rarely stick exactly TO the sketch, it's more of a jumping off spot for me.

The sketch I worked with came from Mary Fish at stampinpretty.com. Here is her sketch ...

... and here is my interpretation of it ...

Sooooooo pretty! Last night I did my live "Check It Out Tuesday" Facebook Event and I was trying out the new hot technique "alcohol painting". Not sure if that's what it's CALLED but that's what I'M calling it! lol. There was a lot of trial and error but in the end I came up with something I really liked, so I decided to use it for my sketch.

How do you make the pretty background? In a nutshell, you colour on Vellum card stock with your Blends Alcohol Markers and then you "paint" over it with 99% Rubbing Alcohol. Since the BLENDS are Alcohol and the ALCOHOL is Alcohol, the colours bleed together and, when they dry, give you some amazing patterns! For a video "how to" you can check out my replay from last night on my YouTube Channel "Tamara's Paper Trail". Here is a brief picture tutorial:

Start by randomly scribbling on a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" pice of Vellum card stock. Bright, dark Blends work best. I used Dark Magenta Madness and Dark Night of Navy.

Grab some 99% Rubbing Alcohol and pour some in a small container.

Using a wide paint brush or our wide Aqua Painter, "pounce" or "dab" alcohol all over the image. If you rub, rather than pounce, the colours will muddy and not give you a nice colour contrast.

Allow the alcohol to dry/evaporate. You can speed up the process using your heat tool, if you like. You can also get some neat patterns by blowing the alcohol and the colour around!

When it dries, the colours are much more muted:

I then grabbed my Fine Tip Glue Pen and added thin lines here and there, to look like veins in marble. I added our Gilded Leafing while the glue was still wet:

You can also use Heat & Stick powder to apply the Gilded Leafing. If you don't have that product, you can also use Versamark and Gold Embossing Power, for a similar effect.

Once you brush the excess away this is what you get:

Per Mary's sketch, I cut my vellum layer piece into 1 1/2" x 3 3/4" strips and attached them to a Basic White layer measuring 5 1/4" x 4" that I ran through my Cut & Emboss Machine with the Painted Texture Embossing Folder. I added some gold chord around the layer and popped it up on dimensionals. The sentiment is from Happiest of Birthdays (SO glad that one is carrying over!), stamped in Gorgeous Grape ink. The sentiment is popped up on dimesionals and I added some Gold Gilded Gems to finish it off.