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We had great fun playing with Alcohol Inks together on the forum – I thought it would be nice to show your our experiments!

If you haven’t used alcohol inks before, you need a non porous surface to try them out on.  Acetate, glossy card, metal – all are fine.  Although photo paper is glossy, it is not suitable for playing with alcohol inks as it has a different surface to other glossy card.  As a starting point it’s fun to

just drop the different colours on to your glossy surface to see how they interact with each other.

These are Adirondack Inks

And these are Pinata inks

Here I have stippled the colours on a piece of acetate with my applicator, and after a moment stippled over them again.

A squirt of blending solution onto my applicator, and stippling over the same piece again gives this effect.

You can buy alcohol ink applicators.  Here I have made my own – you need a block of some sort (I have used an acrylic block intended for unmounted stamps), and some self adhesive velcro (I got mine from Hobbycraft)   Stick the rough sided velcro to your block.  Now you can cut small rectangles of felt, and stick them to the applicator.

When using, just put the nozzle of the ink into the felt, and give a quick spurt.  Use different colours at the same time, just one squirt per colour, but in different parts of the felt.

When you stamp with an oil based archival ink such as Versafine on alcohol inks, you can rub it off and it will take the alcohol ink with it, leaving a lovely clear image.

Swirling the alcohol ink on your sheet, adding another colour and swirling again, and finally a blob of blending solution and more swirling gives a very different look.  Here I was creating a sea effect.

Sally used alcohol inks to paint with here,  “I filled my koi waterbrush with some of the alcohol ink blending solution, dripped alcohol ink into/onto a pallet and just used it like paint“

Alcohol Ink Antics!

Click here to see the fun we had with metal!

Click here to see the fun we had with metal!