Feel Better Soon Card With Alcohol Inks

I recently took a class with Tiffany Solorio and Mary Polanco that focused on techniques for creating alcohol ink backgrounds. I convinced a friend of mine to take the class, also, and we did some fun crafting together on a Saturday morning playing with alcohol inks and different types of papers and then had a lovely lunch together while our backgrounds dried. Some of mine turned out better than others, but I liked all the ones I did on Yupo paper. (I also tried the back of glossy photo paper with pretty good results, but I didn't care for the backgrounds I made on vellum or acetate--I need more practice to make those work!). 

For this card, I trimmed my Yupo paper background to fit a 5x7 inch top-folding card base and then die cut an oval out of it. I saved the oval for another project and die cut a black oval using the same die and popped that up with foam tape. The die cut lilies are from Altenew's Craft-A-Flower: Lilies die set, and I used some of the watercolor card stock that I had water colored, ink smooshed, and sprayed to get the yellows and greens here for the flower die cuts. I then colored one of the layers of the flowers with an alcohol ink marker to get a darker shade of yellow so it showed up better.

The "feel better soon" sentiment is from Altenew's Craft-A-Garden: Grand Carnations and was stamped using Distress Black Soot ink. 

 Challenges I'm entering: 

The Diva's that cut ....paper!: May is a Time for Waffle Flower (die-cut-divas.blogspot.com): Monochromatic (4/4; ends at the end of the month)

simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/: Lots of texture (1/5; ends 6/3/24)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (1/3; ends 6/2/24) C10

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (2/5 for the week; 2/10 for the challenge; ends 6/5/24)

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite Sketch and Why: I love making cards with flowers at the center as the focal point. I usually pop them up on foam tape so they stand out a bit from the background, and for this card, since the flowers were yellow and so was the background, I also added a black oval on foam tape behind the flowers. (2/3; ends 5/29/24)

Cut It Up (cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com): Send my flowers (1/3; ends 5/29/24)

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG (1/3; ends 5/31/24)

Allsorts challenge blog: ATG or blast from the past (1/3; ends 5/31/24)

Crafty Calendar Challenge: ATG (ends 5/28/24)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (2/6; ends 6/12/24)

No more challenges.