CAS Mix Up: Alcohol Inks on Vellum

Hello again!  It's time for another CAS Mix Up Challenge, hosted by Coni this month.  She's given us an interesting task -- alcohol inks on vellum.  Say what?  I've never done much with alcohol inks, period, let alone on vellum.  Come to find out it's fun and, as you might expect with vellum, it produces a softer result.  There are several links to video tutorials provided on the challenge blog.

The team's samples are hugely inspiring, and we're delighted to welcome the lovely Hannelie as our guest designer.  Girl knows her way around a CAS card, for sure.

I've used gold and black over alcohol inks on vellum.  As the graphic above states, in addition to the prompt technique we must use stamping and at least one other mixed media element.  See the sidebar on the CAS Mix Up Challenge blog for a list of MM choices.

My Tutti Designs stained glass dies come out differently every time, but always beautiful.  The top layer of gold sits on two 110 lb layers of white.  On the first white layer I popped out the background pieces, but left the frame, leaves and birds intact.   That assembly was glued onto the alcohol-inked vellum, then edges trimmed.   Finally it was glued to the white card base.

The next step was to color the inner image pieces with a black Copic, and then go over that with Wink of Stella.  I did my best to keep the actual card design CAS.  The sentiment is gold embossed and die cut.

If you enjoy making alcohol ink backgrounds, come try it on vellum and show us your card at CAS Mix Up.  We'd love to see it!  Have a good day!

Stamps:  Altenew Wishing You  Paper:  Neenah Classic Crest Super Smooth Solar White 80 & 110 lb, gold mirror, vellum  Ink:  Versamark, alcohol inks Butterscotch, Stream, Wild plum  Other:  Ranger Princess Gold embossing powder, Tutti Designs Birds Stained Glass die, Spellbinders small rectangle die