Well today turned into a kind of non-productive day! I did get the kitchen cleaned up and some laundry, but that's about it. I am nursing a sore hip & shoulder from our game last night, so that's my excuse. :)
I really wanted to play along with the CAS-ual fridays challenge this week to use rub-ons. I am not super big on them but boy my mom sure had a million. (she was a bit of a hoarder).
So as I was checking out the stash I came across a few that instantly gave me ideas, and then it was final, no more housework!
I am quite happy at how this turned out! I wanted to mist on some ink but that posed a couple of problems, a) I don't have any red/pink mists, b) I don't have any reinkers to create my own. What I do have is lots of Ranger alcohol inks. So I did some Google-ing to see if I could find anything on using alcohol inks. But everything I found said DO NOT use alchol inks to make spray mists.
Well there posed another challenge. BUT i figured if you can add water to water based inks one should be able to add alcohol to alcohol based inks, right?
So thats what I did. I just added the alcohol ink into my little spray bottle then added some Ranger blending solution. I think it worked wuite nicely.
Now I didn't think to check out Jennifer MacGuire's blog, as I am sure she has something on there about it. Oh well!
The rub-on is a Kelly Panacci for Sandylion and I have no idea how old it is!
Thanks for stopping by!
Brilliant idea with the alcohol inks! It looks awesome and that sentiment rocks.
ReplyDeleteThis. Is. Awesome. I love it and how brilliant are you to come up with a way to make the alcohol inks work!
ReplyDeleteYou know how much I love mists-of any kind and yours turned out great. Love your clean and simple card! It was a lazy day for me too and boy did it ever feel good! Thanks for playing at CAS-ual Fridays too!
ReplyDeleteA second fabulous card today! The misting looks awesome, and what a great sentiment!
ReplyDeleteVery cool and I love the sentiment!
ReplyDeleteWhat a smart ink idea! I just used alcohol inks for the first time the other day -- fun stuff! That's a great shade of pink, too. Yummy.
ReplyDeleteYowza Kasia! I love this! That misting is fantastic and the rub-on is super fun! Great card!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely brilliant! Love this card and especially the sentiment. Beautiful! :)
ReplyDeleteArlene.
LOVE the card...and I think you did a fabulous job creating your own mist! The rub on may be old, but it's a great sentiment! And your blog has a new look - LOVE IT. :)
ReplyDeleteAnother card that makes me oooh and aaah. You do that to me, Kasia! This is an amazing design and looks so easy but I'm sure it wouldn't be if I tried it. ;)
ReplyDeleteA lovely CAS card and what a great rub on too...could feel my eyes spiralling trying to read it :)
ReplyDeleteJenny x
Love this card! That misted pink looks fab with the swirled sentiment. Brilliant CAS design :) Thanks for playing this week at CAS-ual Fridays!
ReplyDeleteI always love the mist-sprayed card...yours is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing how you did it!! AWESOME design indeed! Thanks so much for playing with us at CAS-ual Fridays!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing - love that sprayed effect and that sentiment is so much fun. So glad you joined us at CAS-ual Fridays this week!
ReplyDeleteAMAZING! Love how you used alcohol to do this! I must remember this trick!!!
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