Team Tuesday with Kia

Hello everyone ... welcome to Team Tuesday.

I have a few cards to share with you where I have used the technique of blowing ink in my design and I will share my process for this with you. I have also done my first video showing how I do this technique, and as there are 2 techniques I have done for my card, the video is longer than I would have liked especially given it is my first, and I will add it later this morning. 

These are the cards that I made for today.

I have been told that some like a hand tutorial rather than the video, so I have captured a few screen shots to share the process.

I have attached my stencil to my piece of acetate and have applied Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol to my cotton ball before applying the ink, which is Tim Holtz Citrus. I dab the cotton swab around the stencil until I am happy with the look.

I am blowing the ink onto the acetate here changing the colours as I go along. I want the piece to be almost filled with colour, with only a few clear spaces left showing. I am using a fairly small in circumference straw as I have better control of the paint than with a larger straw. The alcohol ink dries fairly quickly, but be sure to let it dry fully as it is messy otherwise, and stains. which is why I do not do this process inside my Misti.

Once the inks have dried I continue with my card. I arrange my card inside my Misti using the grid lines to make sure I have everything straight. I stamped the leaf in my Misti and heat embossed using black embossing powder, then die cut with the coordinating die. For my stencil background, I sponged citrus distress ink onto a piece of cardstock cut to mat my stencil background, which also has white cardstock backing it. The sentiment I stamped using intense black ink and die cut with the fishtail label, which I then attached on foam strips toward the top of the card. Again I used my Misti to align the label. I added foam tape to the back of the leaf and attached it to the card and finished with a few sequins.

Here are some close up pictures of the cards. My video is below these.

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