Saturday, August 18, 2018

ALCOHOL INK SHIMMER FOIL

As if alcohol ink on Yupo paper isn't amazing enough, when you add foil, it takes it to another whole dimension!  You may have discovered yourself that sometimes the alcohol ink is still tacky on your Yupo for a while after spreading the inks around, this means it's perfect for transferring foil onto the tacky spots.  There is a "sweet spot" where the ink is tacky but not too wet and before it totally dries so no foil will stick.  I find it's about 1-1/2 minutes.  But this will depend on what colours of inks you use (weird I know but reds seem to stay tackier for longer) and also how much Blending Solution you use in the ratio to inks.  Blending Solution I found works better for this technique than just isopropyl alcohol but if you don't have Blending Solution or even if your inks have dried and no foil is sticking, you can always resort to the Zig fine tip two-way glue pen.  This is how I've added the gold foil lines in the very first example below as it had dried beyond where the foil would stick.  

"Fat crying"...

"Sparkle"...

"Dead leaves"...

"Life update"...

"Classy AF"...
(sorry, not sorry if it offends 😏)

3 comments:

Melodyscraps, mixed media goddess said...

These are amazing! Where do you get your images?

Arpit said...

Great Collection .

Suzie Bates said...

Amazing Work nice job keep Continue such kind of efforts..!

Beard Quotes