• About

sarathings

~ my art, my family, my life, my stuff…

sarathings

Tag Archives: Fragments

Tuesday Techniques – Marbled Alcohol Inks

10 Tuesday Apr 2012

Posted by Sara in ScrapBook, Tuesday Techniques

≈ 33 Comments

Tags

Alcohol ink, Ali Edwards, Fragments, Ideology, Ranger, Technique Tuesday, techniques, Tim Holtz

I love me some alcohol inks! You really can’t mess them up because no matter what colours you pick to blend together, they all work – no muddiness or anything, they just play nice together! And if you don’t like what you get then add more or, on certain surfaces, wipe it all off and start over! I mean really, what’s not to like about that?

There are a bunch of techniques I love – using them on canvas, making plaid, removing parts with Archival Ink – but one of my favourite looks is marbled. This looks the coolest on fragmentsย (you can also get charms), but works equally well on any transparent surface, like acetate or page protectors. For me, it’s just an embellishment as is, I don’t do anything more than make them and adhere them to my project, but you could also stamp sentiments and images over them to use as focal points.

Here’s what you need:

Supplies

Alcohol Ink, Fragments, Ink blending tool with felt, heat tool (optional).

First, just add a few colours to your felt. Simply put the tip of the ink applicator in the felt and give it a 2-3 second squeeze. If you don’t put the tip in the felt, well, let’s just say you could have alcohol ink permanently stuck all over the place. Of course, I don’t know this by experience, oh no, not me, I would never do something like that. I’ve just heard it could happen. *ahem*

Now, pounce your felt all over your fragment, twisting the ink blending tool as you go to mix and blend the colours. Don’t worry about what this layer looks like, we’ll be adding lots to it yet!

Because I’m impatient, I use a heat tool to speed up the drying process though it really isn’t necessary as they dry pretty quickly.

Next, add a little more intense colour to the felt, if you wish. I thought the first layer was pretty light and needed some depth so I added a darker colour. Then you pounce and dry again. I don’t add any more ink after this step since you want the felt to dry a little – as it dries and you add more layers, it gets “stickier” and builds the effect we’re going for.

Just keep pouncing and drying, pouncing and drying, until you get dark lines running through the colours on the fragment.

See? Marbled alcohol inks!

I like the fragments because of the thickness and translucency of the finished piece, but it does look cool on a page protector too, especially if you want to use said protector as a memorabilia pocket in an album.

Now, just add the fragment to your project and consider it done! Personally, I think they’re interesting and pretty enough to stand on their own, so I leave them alone.

This would be great hanging on a thank you gift, or birthday present…

You can see that I ended up using different colours for my finished tag – now I just have to find a spot to put the teal one I made!

As always, leave me a comment with a link to any projects you try using this technique – I’d love to see what you come up with!

S.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

This is me!

  • Sara

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 997 other subscribers
Simple Scrapper Design Team

Simple Scrapper Creative Team

  • Alexa Gill
  • Allie Trumpower
  • Amy Melniczenko – Team Leader
  • Ann Tamimi
  • Arielle Gordon
  • Cathy Caines
  • Christy Strickler
  • Crystal Livesay
  • Delanie Wood
  • Jamie Leija
  • Jan Sowder
  • Jen Conlon – Social Media Manager
  • Jennifer Johnson
  • Jennifer Wilson – Owner/Editor
  • Jenny Larson
  • Kathryn Quintana
  • Kelly Sroka
  • Kimberly Kalil
  • Lisa Corbin-Polak
  • Lisa Hausman
  • Melanie Ritchie – Graphic Designer
  • Neisha Sykes – Graphic Designer
  • Nicole LeBlanc
  • Sandy Henderson
Scrapbook Steals Design Team

Flickr Photos

i ami am wordsfunny things title
More Photos

Twitter Updates

  • @berncoad @VOCMNEWS @PeterCBC @NTVNewsNL @KellyAnneNTV @CMOH_NL Drives me crazy!The moderator should put a stop to it. 1 year ago
  • #mistergabe repping the rainbow all around today and stealing my @target #targetpride hoodie. #pride๐ŸŒˆโค๏ธ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’œ @ Mounโ€ฆ twitter.com/i/web/status/1โ€ฆ 3 years ago
  • Flowers from Evan. ๐Ÿ˜ #awesomeevan #sarathings robertpmendoza @ Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador instagram.com/p/BzF9AVDh37d/โ€ฆ 3 years ago
Follow @saracees
Follow Me on Pinterest pinterest-5ef5b.html

Categories

Ronda Palazzari Designs
Balzer Designs

Blogroll

  • Artist Wanna Be
  • Confessions of a Twenty Something Artist
  • Darrell Strickland
  • day jobs and the night life..
  • driven to ink
  • For The Love Of Art
  • Gone to the Dogs
  • Graham Case
  • Graham Case Photography
  • It's About Time…
  • pieces of my everyday life…
  • Sit, Scrap, and Relax
  • The Paperie
  • with Coffee in Hand
  • {Every Day}
Art Class Workshop
Balzer Designs Stencil 101
UberMedia Canvas Class
UberMedia Gesso

Archives

  • April 2016
  • February 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • sarathings
    • Join 317 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • sarathings
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: