Alcoholink Floaters

Hello Stamplings!

How are you? I hope you've had a great week, a great holiday weekend, and a wonderful spring break! I'm doing fine now and we enjoyed having the family and dear friends for Easter dinner. It was very nice to be together again after a two-year Covidelay. 

Even though I haven't been blogging much, I have been happily making cards over the past few weeks when I felt well enough. I made several dozen designs using my BOB (box of bits), which is always enjoyable and productive. It's amazing how panels and die-cuts and partial images will accrue in a short amount of time ~ rather like NBUS!

This past week I've been making cards from panels that I made during a craft Zoom session where we floated in an alcoholic ink bath. You can imagine the beautiful colors of my tub now! I'm joking, but it is tempting ...

Onefer

If floating paper in a bath of alcohol inks is new to you, here is a video link: Andy Skinner. I made the two above designs using Yupo paper which gives the colorful panels a lovely sheen.

Twofer

It's been a while since I made these AI panels, but if I remember right, we next tried creating patterns in the ink as soon as the panels were pulled from the bath. Here are two examples using bubble wrap:

And then, because there was ink on the bubble wrap, I grabbed some vellum and smooched a coupla panels which I made into QACAS cards like this:

I noticed that the pattern left by the patterned bubble wrap was in the pattern of a partial heart, so I added a simple love die-cut sediment. The vellum was folded over and attached to the tent card at the top and then left to hang free over the front. 

I do seem to have a penchant for blue, green, and gold, don't I? Just to surprise you, I also bathed in some yellows and reds, but I'll share those cards another day. It's an easy and fun technique and before you know it you'll find yourself with 20-30 panels which can be turned into pretty cards.

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I'll leave you with a terrific family photo from Easter:

Wait. What? Did we forget to take photos AGAIN?! I hope you did better!

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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

Oh, just out of curiosity, are you playing Wordle? As you can imagine, Hammy and I are obsessed and it's now become a part of the daily morning routine. Some days it's just pure luck because the winning word could be one of many similar words! There are knock-off games out there now, but the original official game can be found at nytimes.com/games/wordle. You don't need to download anything or have an app!

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and letting me know you did. Mwah!

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