Alcohol Inks are a favourite product of most people who have them but it's always interesting to see how else you can use them besides the usual pouncing motion using a piece of felt on an applicator on gloss card. This particular technique uses hand sanitizer gel as the carrier to spread and blend the alcohol inks instead of the normal blending solution that you use for gloss card. Also, I have done this technique on plain white matte card instead of gloss. I don't generally like the effect of alcohol inks on matte card using blending solution as it seems to be a bit dull, but this technique using the hand sanitizer gel seems to get a better and different effect than you normally would using the standard method of application described above. How?... A small puddle of hand sanitizer gel on a non-stick craft sheet, drop in a few drops of a couple of alcohol ink colours, blend slightly and then press the card in to pick up the colour of the ink and the hand gel. Re-press if more colour is required and allow to dry naturally and yes, the hand gel just disappears! I just had a thought as I was typing this, I haven't tried the metallic alcohol inks with this method but I will tomorrow at my first class and see how they perform as well! More results later.
"Aviator"...
"Shopping fool"...
"Transform"...
"Damaged"...
I thought I'd show you the stripe effect you can get with this technique. A very different look than normal alcohol inks and yes, it's on matte card stock!
