Cool Alcohol Ink Technique
 

How about using your Alcohol inks on POROUS surfaces... yes, you read right.. not glossy card, not acetate, not metal, not glass.. but plain cardstock or card.... Imagine the possibilities..:D

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That looks well worth a try - I like techniques for background paper. I've tried floating chalk before, but not ink! TFS.

Beautiful! That looks so fun.

Very cool!

Those turned out so pretty! I'll have to give this a try. TFS.

So very cool! except..... I don't have any alcohol inks... is there any way to 'fake' them? could I mix dye ink with alcohol?

Very cool technique

Dini.......I follow your blog which is great and you know what.......I never knew you didn't have alcohol inks - lol. Seems to me, you're doing fine without them but they're really really neat.

Andy, I apologize. I posted your technique in this forum too. Of course I gave you credit. It was just too cool not to share.

I haven't used my alcohol inks in awhile but sometimes used 91% rubbing alcohol instead of the blending solution (it resulted in brighter colors than the more typical 70% rubbing alcohol; both were nice but I remember thinking the blending solution gave a smoother finish).

Anyway ... if you try it (and I'd think it should work) I'd try to use the stronger alcohol if you can find it (while not expensive it is significantly more costly than the 70%).

My AIs are still packed (we moved almost a year ago but my space needs to be reorganized because my original set-up didn't work well for me at all) so I hope you try it with dye inks and share your results.


Happy Crafting!
Tina aka TeeGeeDee

OMG ... I almost forgot to say the video was great and I love the idea!

LOL! Thanks, Lorraine! Yep, not too many artist grade or stamping supplies in my corner of the world! We'll be coming to the States in December, though, so I'll have an opportunity to stock up on some things.

Can't promise when, but I'll try mixing alcohol and dye reinkers sometime and see how that works.

Oh yeah Dini, totally forgot you are in Indonesia. You should have someone video you when you're in the States shopping. Kind of like a shark in a feeding frenzy? LOL.

I found a few interesting how to videos on You Tube

‪Making alcohol ink PART ONE- also see part TWO.wmv‬‏ - YouTube PART 1 USING SHARPIES ALC INK
‪alcohol ink part TWO also see PART ONE.wmv‬‏ - YouTube PART 2

‪How to Make your OWn Sprak Ink‬‏ - YouTube
NOT ALC INK BUT VERY CREATIVE. WOULD YOU THINK TO USE KOOL AID?

‪How to make alcohol ink‬‏ - YouTube

I'd have thought it might be worth trying just with ordinary re-inkers. I don't know if they'd disperse on the water the same way as the alcohol ink did. I was surprised when I tried it yesterday, it went into clumps of each colour and I had to stir carefully to mix them up a bit. My recollection of true marbling inks is that it was easier to get the colours where you wanted.
I'm on a day off tomorrow, maybe I'll try a quarter sheet of card in a small container and see how it goes.

Bahaha! I can get watercolor paper here, and a good variety of solid cardstock - occasionally some decent art supplies... Actually I have been doing some purposeful shopping online as I see really great prices, and having those things sent to my MIL's house... I think she thinks I am crazy!!

I have heard that Vodka & dye ink works well, and because vodka doesn't smell, you have no 'alcohol' smell to it.;)

Andy's video was very very interesting and his blog is awesome! I like his patience with the question of what is isoclene. I still don't know what it is exactly. Have to check that out as well. Does anybody else know about isoclene or used it in place of blending solution?

HOLY COW! That is awesome. Absolutely gotta try this technique. Thanks so much for sharing with us.

I tried this tonight using the Brights. Did it on tags first and then cardstock. The cardstock was kind of thin so I don't know if that had anything to do with the results. The colors on the tag were just ok. Not as vibrant as I would have liked. They really didn't do anything to the cardstock. A hint of color but not enough to make a difference. I don't know how Andy gets such a vibrant result. I tried doing it the way the video showed us, just passing it through the water and alcohol inks. Then I tried letting it linger a little before taking it out. Still, not vibrant.

I like the look of tags. I'll bet if I cut tags of glossy cardstock and then did this technique the results would please me more. After it was all dried I would cut another tag shape out of something sturdy and glue it to the back. I'm going to have to try that. Might come out looking the same as using the ink applicator and alcohol inks on glossy. If that's the case, same result different method. Probably would be a little more cost effective using Tim's alcohol ink method. I used A LOT of drops tonight because after making a tag or two the water looked muddy so I changed it and added more ink.

Just did a Google search for isoclene, and it appears to be a brand name for the cans of compressed air used to clean pc's, electrical stuff etc. A bit of a further search gave its ingredient: 99.7% isopropanol. So the 99% Isopropanol you can buy online is exactly the same thing.That, or sometimes the 70% is what I use instead of Blending Solution. HTH.

This technique is really fun. I wonder how it would be on lighter paper, like dictionary paper. I must try it! :)

I had a go with this today, too. I agree with LorraineBK, I couldn't get the same vibrant result- the colours look a little washed out and 'flat'- even the strong colours. It must have something to do with the type of cardstock used, I think. Its a good technique insofar as getting swirls/patterns that you wouldn't get from using blending foam/tools, but I would like to know what brand of cardstock he used.I tried plain white card, and glossy.If anything, the glossy came out worse than the plain white cardstock.

I thought the glossy would make a difference but thank you for posting that it didn't. I'll just stick with the Tim Holtz method. Sorry Andy, I DO love your stuff.

I haven't tried mixing dye reinkers with alcohol, but we did try yesterday with Fluid Chalk reinkers and they work as well. So fun!!

I know I'm a little late to this forum, but thank you for the great technique. I just ordered a bunch of glossy cardstock. I had bought quite a few of the alcohol inks and didn't realize it didn't work on regular cardstock. But now I know different.

Thanks
 

I love trying new techniques- thank you- will give this a go!!! Beautiful end results in your video!

Shelly

Cardstock used
 

Hi everyone and thanks for your comments, I use a very good quality 300 gsm cardstock..not glossy just plain. You will get slightly different results with this technique depending on the card you use. It is very important to be liberal with the inks and use Brights if you want a more vivid colour..

I hope this helps, I have been so mad busy the past few months that I have not had time to check the forums so apologies for that.

Have a great Saturday.