ALCOHOL INK LIFT OFF TECHNIQUE

I have had my Ranger Alcohol Ink Lift Off Pad for a while now but have only just got around to having a play and it is SO addictive!  There are plenty of YouTube video's on how to use it so I won't go into that here but I will say that your stamps need to be squeaky clean before you use this ink pad.  I generally wipe my stamps over with a baby wipe after stamping with them but they need more intense cleaning than just that.  If you have a stamp cleaner, use it to get your stamps as clean as possible.  My poor Lift Off Pad now has some darker marks on it from a stamp that had been used with Stazon.  Even though you think it's clean, this ink pad will cause the Stazon to reactivate a bit so you'll get some transfer to the pad.   Clean your stamps!

I have included a couple of the stamped images that were done on the plain white cardstock after lifting off the alcohol ink from the alcohol inked Yupo surface.  Make sure your alcohol ink on the Yupo is dry too before doing this technique.  Hope you enjoy the samples as much as I enjoyed making them.  Couldn't seem to stop.....  😉

"Boo"...

 "Boo 2"...

(See that white stuff?  That's stretchy cobweb from a 

Halloween pack!)

"Music speaks"...

"Solstice"...

"Hum of bees"...

"Scarlet Tree"...

(Stamped images from the Solstice card above)

The stamped image from Hum of bees above.

Stamped image from Music speaks above.

Below are the last 2 samples from the previous Brick Wall Background from last fortnight. 

Do you love my ants?  

"Uninvited guest"...

"Shhhh"...

BRICK WALL BACKGROUNDS

The class for this fortnight is a very textured, dimensional background using glue, chipboard, tissue paper and paints.  It's a pain cutting all the little bricks out but so worth it in the end when you see the wonderful result!

"Keep Out"...

(the skull is a die-cut that I coated with

several layers and colours of the Seth Apter

Baked Texture Embossing Powder range)

"Don't grow up"...

Too glam"...

"Whimsical"...

This is what the background looks like before anything has been added.  As you can see there is loads of texture and various colours to make this particular background look like aged bricks. 

A side view so you can see there is quite a bit of depth to this.

On a personal note, I missed last fortnight's class as I had a tragic and mind-numbing event happen to our family.  My youngest brother passed away from a massive heart attack.  At the end of September, my brother Tony celebrated his 54th birthday and just 3 short month's ago married his partner Bill, of more than 20 years, when same-sex marriage was finally legalised in Australia.  He was the fittest member of our family so this came totally out of the blue with no warning signs at all.  It has left a huge hole in our large, close-knit family but his death has also affected many others as he was also a skating coach/dancer/choreographer/costume designer and was well known in Perth entertainment circles for his various productions that he staged.  He was also the jokester of the family, always quick with a funny story or meme that made us all smile.  He was also a baby brother, a son, a brother-in-law, an uncle and a great-uncle.  Tony will be missed by all whose paths he crossed.