Drunken Chalks

Drunken Chalks

Hallo Everyone!

Hope you've had a good month

and achieved most, if not all,

you have set out to do.

Don't worry if you haven't -

there's always next month.....

Here is Angela Radford with

the final instalment in our

chapter of alcoholic delights:

 "Hi all. I've been having some fun playing 

with Distress Oxides, together with

Surgical Spirit and  Hand Sanitizing Gel 

both of which contain Alcohol.

I have used these with a variety of different 

papers and card and got some interesting results.

Normally I have used the Distress Oxides with water

 which reacts nicely but with the Surgical Spirit 

the effect is quite different and I'm happy to say

 that the inks move around in interesting ways. 

This was on a very smooth stamping card. 

I used a dropper to apply the surgical spirit to the paper.

It's also interesting to see how different the effect

 is on different papers. 

This one was slightly more glossy. 

On this sample I sprayed the surgical spirit 

onto the paper.

 This test was done on Velum, love it. 

Again, sprayed the surgical spirit though I also 

tilted parts of the velum to encourage some 

movement of the liquid.

Here you can see the effect of stamping with 

the Hand Sanitizer.

It reacts with the ink really quickly.

And a close-up. 

Will definitely be playing with this technique again.

Tried this on Yupo too by spraying. 

I would advise sealing all of these when dry. 

Although the colour didn't move when dry,

 it will be effected by water if reactivated.

But of course you will want to see what 

I've done with some of these. 

So I took some card blanks and 

started with some stamping.

Then some stamping on one of the sample 

pieces which I cut out.

 For the stamping I used some PaperArtsy stamps 

available at The Craft Barn.

 I cut out and attached a section of the Velum

 for this card and then stamped over it 

and heat embossed the image.

More stamping then added some of the cut out

 circles, sentiment and Gems. 

The little dots around the edge were done 

with a black pen.

Here you can see the full card.

Couldn't resist making another.

 I used a different sample for this one.

And the full card. 

Hope you enjoyed watching me play

 as much as I enjoyed doing it. 

Happy crafting, Angela xXx"

  Products used:

Distress Oxides

Paper Artsy Stamps

White Card Blanks

Velum

Card and Paper : Satin, glossy,smooth and Yupo 

Black pen

Clear embossing Powder

Gems

Sanitizing Hand Gel

Surgical Spirit

Thank you Angela - 

for another super

tutorial.  Always great

to see the enthusiasm

you bring to the project

I would never have thought 

of hand sanitising gel!  Must

try this one so guess what's

on my shopping list this week!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Drunken Chalks

Drunken Chalks

Hi There!

Good to have you with us today

and every other day you can

make it too!  

Continuing our crafty inebriation

theme this week is Claire Jackson

and this is what she has to say on

the subject:

"As I’m always experimenting to see if

 I can get new effects using well loved products 

I was keen to find out if the Distress Oxides 

blend with alcohol...and they do on yupo at least. 

If you haven’t used yupo before it’s a non-porous 

synthetic paper.

 First stamp a background using 

broken china Distress Oxide ink onto Yupo.

Stamp leaves around the top and bottom. 

I used cracked pistachio and peeled paint.

Spray the yupo with isopropyl alcohol. 

I used an IPA aerosol spray for cleaning 

computer parts. 

Surgical spirit will work but it has some 

oil added which will leave a slightly greasy finish. 

You must follow the instructions on the spray 

and do this in a well ventilated room. 

Allow the colours to blend to create a soft image. 

Before all the alcohol evaporates use a baby 

wipe to blend the centre section.

Build up more stamping and spray again 

with the alcohol to let it blend. 

Blot it after a few seconds to give a 

slightly harder image. 

Add centres to the flowers using a 

cotton bud.

 With a cotton bud add dots of colour

 between the leaves.

Use black Memento ink to add a sentiment 

and stamping to the edges.

Add white highlights in paint pen. 

Before mounting it give it a spray 

with acrylic sealant. 

This will stop the inks continuing to migrate

 on the yupo and eventually becoming a faded blur."

Materials used:

Yupo:
Distress Oxide inks:
Memento ink:
Impression Obsession background stamp:
Carabelle Studio and PaperArtsy rubber stamps:
White paint pen:
Sealant:

Lovely card Claire, thank you.

Who would have thought that

such loveliness could come from

"drunken" chalks...........😉

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

Drunken Chalks

Drunken Chalks

Hi Everyone!

Glad you could stop by.

Today we have Hazel Harler

with us.  She is going to

demonstrate her take on

the topic, so sit back and

enjoy..........

"For my latest project I've been playing 

with the Drunken Chalk technique.

 For my first card I used Versa Magic

 chalk inks and glossy card. 

I coloured the card with the ink pads 

directly onto the card,

The card was then sprayed with surgical spirit.

When the spirit had dried I covered 

the card with Encore metallic ink.

I sprayed the card with the spirit and the 

metal in the Encore ink separated from 

the rest of the ink 

The card was stamped with Paperartsy stamps

 and Archival ink.

-oOo-

For my second card I sponged Distress Oxide 

onto the glossy card.

I used a pipette to drip the 

surgical spirit onto the card.

I cut the card in half and covered one half 

with Encore metalic ink and 

dripped the spirit with the pipette. 

I loved the effect it made.

To finish the card I used Kaisercraft papers, 

Woodware stamps, black archival and I coloured 

the image with indian ink markers:

-oOo-

I decided to make a Christmas card for my 

next sample. 

I coloured the glossy card with three 

different blue Distress Oxide inks.

 I covered the card with Encore metalic ink.

This is the result after dripping 

surgical spirit onto the card. 

It's a good idea to spray the finished 

background with an acrylic sealer as

 the metal ink will rub of on 

everything that touches it.

 I used a Woodware stamp on the card 

and heat embossed it. 

The image was matted onto red and 

blue card and I trimmed it with some ribbon.

-oOo-

 For my last sample I scribbled some

 Distress Oxide onto glossy card using 

the corner of the inkpads.

 Then sprayed it with surgical spirit.

 I covered one half of the card with the metallic ink 

and dripped some surgical spirit onto it.

I stamped the background with a Woodware stamp

 and coloured it with Indian ink markers."

Materials:

Card Blanks

Glossy card,
Distress Oxides.
Versa magic ink pads.
Encore metalic ink pads.
Archival ink pads.
Surgical spirit.
PaperArtsy stamps.
Woodware stamps. 
Indian ink markers.
Kaisercraft papers.
Acrylic sealer.
Embellishments.

Great tutorial Hazel;

thank you very much

I am sure everyone will

have learned a lot here

I am sure you all agree that

Hazel has produced a beautiful

set of cards using this technique

Do you have a favourite?  

Currently I am favouring the

last one..........but this my

change......

Anyway, I am now off to get

some surgical spirit.......

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx